“I’m Okay”
“I was working in the ward on a night duty for quite some time. One night, I had to write down each patient’s name, when I spotted a patient that I had not seen for a couple of weeks. I felt weird when I was about to think that he had been transferred to our surgical hospital. He looked at me in the eyes and smiled as I gave him a gesture as if everything is fine. It was a relief seeing him in his best look than what I remember. However, when putting in my notes I could not find his name on the patient census. I looked him up by name and was amazed to see that it said he had died two days earlier. It was like he came back to say he was fine.”The Supervisor

Smile
“Doing my rounds as a new RN in a unit, I saw an old lady dressed in hospital’s gown. Thinking that the patient was lost or couldn’t sleep, I signaled her from afar (we’re at the opposite ends of the hallway) to ask what’s wrong. Grabbing her attention, she turned her face to me, smiled and passed through a wall into a patient’s room! I froze from what I saw. I found out later that the woman had died three days earlier from a car accident, and ‘watching over’ her husband who was hospitalized in the room she entered.”
Out of the Window
“I was working on a night shift when a call light goes off for room 130. For all I know, this room has no one in it, so I canceled the light from the desk but it wouldn’t cancel. I walked down to the room just to check. Upon entering the room, I heard a budging sound on the window, like something or someone is trying to get out. Knowing what might be happening, I took up all the courage I could and took a deep breath, opened the lights, and walked to the window and opened it. I felt weird because a soft breeze went by and flew by me and then out of the window. I later found out that a patient had died during the morning and apparently, the nurses before my shift didn’t open the window. Weird as it may sound, but when someone passes, let them go and open the room’s windows!”“Bless You”

The feeling of it was as if I was about to start a prayer and to my surprise… a voice whispered near my ear “Our Father in heaven..”
From then on, I used to stop myself from sneezing and didn’t recite The Lord’s Prayer for quite some time.”
The Intruder
“I worked as a registry nurse Noc shift and it was a very quiet and peaceful at 3am while doing simple floor rounds I felt something behind me, turned around and saw a shadowy girly figure wearing a hospital gown run into a residents room. I wasn’t terrified at all despite knowing the story I was thinking intruder. So I immediately entered the room and the resident in the room was up (an Alzheimer’s patient) and she said “Did you see that?” I was like “What” and the resident said “She went in there (pointing to the closed bathroom). I waited a bit and called for help to insure it wasn’t an intruder and the unit was clear. To this day I can’t explain it, but know what I saw and oddly enough what my patient saw despite her mental status. Weird, but it’s my job–nursing.”Playful Balloons
