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The only thing anyone in the unit would have heard was the boy screaming at the beginning…all other discussion was in his room and quiet. I had heard other security officers outright reject that set of rounds due to strange stuff happening there, but I laughed it off until that night happened. At this point, I know I am the only worker in the basement. As I am standing there waiting for the elevator, things start falling off of the shelves down the hall. Boxes of gloves, tissues, packages of tubes.. I am literally standing there watching them fall off one by one at the opposite end of the hallway.
The med surg LPN’s I work with said they’d have 60 pts to pass meds to and the CNA’s would have 30 pts a piece in SNF’s. I’ve often wondered if they just get so overwhelmed their brain just short circuits. I’ve heard so many stories about nurses giving oral meds to pts who have no pulse and they don’t realize the pt is dead. I’ve heard stories about them not realizing a resident has been missing for like a day. You can’t pass nursing boards and be that negligent/unintelligent.
The First Patient To Die
I radio him and he says he’s upstairs in the cafeteria. Ah, I still don’t believe him and think I’ll catch him in the act. I walk past the laundry room and the machines start. Pop my head in there expecting to find him but it’s completely empty.
We stayed and washed him and comforted the brother, and watched him as he died, vomiting more blood and pooing himself constantly. All in all it took him about an hour and a half to die from liver cancer due to alcoholism, and it was a very uncomfortable and undignified death. My mom worked night shift at the hospital in Arizona, in a town by the border, and go figure.
Nursing Home
If residents of a nursing home have myiasis, it speaks poorly of the overall conditions of hygiene and cleanliness at the facility. It also strongly suggests neglect of patients’ medical needs. Regular cleaning of an open wound should remove the fly’s eggs before they have a chance to hatch.
Fucking never slept in that ward ever again. • Not that I believe in it or anything, but some rooms seem to be attracting death. And this happens in most units I can think of.
“I’ll Leave The Light On For You”
We moved him to a room where a little girl had recently passed and we started noticing him talking to different places in the room and staring/nodding when alone. Then he started saying new English words though he hadn’t had an increase in visitors. We had a stretch of nights were each corner room of our unit reported seeing a cat walking around.
I stood up, looked down the dark hall, and on all fours—straight out of The Ring—this resident was crawling up the hall toward me. The other STNA had forgotten to put the bed rail up and the resident was VERY good at climbing out of bed. “I used to work as an STNA in a nursing home. During the night we turned half the lights off so it was darker for the evening and didn’t get a lot of light in the residents’ rooms. We had one resident who was younger and was mostly in for mental reasons. She had long, dark hair and was very thin.
Horror Stories From Nurses That'll Make You Squirm
Knowing Gigi, she had probably dabbed a bit of both behind her ears. She was reading a book to me; a book she was holding with her thin, almost translucent hands. Unfortunately nursing home neglect and injuries are more common than we think.
When she would walk into that room, there would not be any other person in there or anything out of place. The first few times scared her to a panic but she slowly just went on without letting it freak her out. But with this man came some extra attention to the patient. She had big pigtails, was wearing a brown dress, white shoes, holding a teddy bear. I thought perhaps she was a family member who had walked away from the day surgery waiting room. I was concerned that she would go into one of the rooms and get hurt or lost, so I said “hey little girl, what are you doing?
I poked my head around the corner expecting to see my only coworker on duty that night, but there was absolutely no one there. I shrugged it off, I’m not easily spooked. Nights are slow, so I ate some snacks and hung out in the break room for a bit. I walked into the hallway and a bed is rolling down the hall bumping into the sides. At this point I think that my coworker is bullshitting me.
A fly may not even lay eggs in a wound that is not festering. For example, there have been multiple reports over several decades of nursing home residents experiencing infestations of maggots in and on their bodies. Though it sounds like a plot point from a gothic horror novel from the 19th century, one of the most recently reported incidents occurred in October 2021. Shortly after that, Gigi moved into a nursing home.
Not even 3 minutes later, a 17 year old male at the end of the hall started screaming. I ran to his room…he was standing on his bed trying to get away from a white man in a hospital gown. A little less than 2 years later I was talking with a colleague and she came up in conversation. My colleague referred to her as “that crazy bitch” which seemed very out of character for her and it shocked and offended me deeply. I expressed this to her, not so nicely and she looked at me with this shocked look and said “oh dear, do you not know?
We get backed in and I call my director who is also the county coroner and explain what we had witnessed and the conversation between EMS and the RN. While on the phone the tones drop for CPR in progress at this same facility in the same room# where this lil fella that had passed was. Keep in mind this is about 35 mins after we are back at base. So I tell the director she may as well grab her coroner stuff and head on over, and contact our on call medic. My coworkers are convinced he’s talking to the little girl that died there, and though I’m a pretty skeptical person, I still get the creeps when I walk by and see him talking to himself. I was finishing up my binders when a light goes off out of the hall, so I took it, punched my code in and went out since the other cna was busy with someone else.
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