I am a therapist in the US. Worked in the hospital system - adult psychiatry. We are overworked, undervalued, and underpaid. I see a lot of patients who are nurses and hear all the crap they have to go through. Healthcare system work their providers and healthcare staff to the ground. My sis is a nurse and I can say so many things you talk about is so true. I love your videos and podcasts!
My great grandpa said he saw his wife. In Spanish he all told us “Maria is here to get me” and passed away literally a minute later. Those were his last words. My great-grandmother is someone I never knew. She died young and he lived to be almost 90 so he lived most of his life without her. Yet at the end, all he saw was her. My brother almost died while my mom gave birth to him a few years later. My mom said she felt like she was there, like she said it was so overwhelming she begged her not to take him.She said “I feel like she was there to take your brother.” He lived, after a surgeon (who was visiting from New York ) performed an extremely rare procedure that only he and a few other doctors knew. He was there to teach a seminar on that surgery at UCLA. It was a stroke of luck.
I love you Nurse John! Yes healthcare workers,teachers, and social workers are definitely God sent! As a CNA I have to remind myself of this daily. We are here to serve and we will be rewarded by God for our love and service.
A patient once told me to go back to Africa where I went to school. I explained to him that I went to college in the United States and got my first Nursing License in the United States. He still refused treatment so I documented his refusal and informed my supervisor of his concern. My supervisor went to his room and assured him that I was one of her best nurses and that I attended school and did my nursing training in the United States. The patient later got his treatment and called me his favorite nurse after about a week.
Wait!! What! You still had to be his nurse? Your charge nurse didnt offer to switch patients even after he was told you went to school in america. Im sorry that was said some people shouldve never been allowed to speak.
I feel very sorry for getting this kind of mischargement. Very beautiful, that you were so high above these nonsense , and didn't refuse the patient, but helped him, and he had impessive change of heart, he will remember and will share. I had patient with diabetes and painless MI walking away from the ICU in cardiovascular unit, trying to find "American Clinic" - mostly outpatient privat place, only planned surgery, old equipment, owned by oligarch, who sold furniture. He thought that because if the name, they have everything American there. Only American thing they had was the name😂. But his glucose level was 20, he couldn't think straight.
@@Redheadwithfreckles78 There is a high shortage in nursing and another nurse was not available. My Supervisor reassured the patient that I was qualified to do the job and I treated this patient like any other patient. Patience, Grace and Empathy are valuable traits that a prudent nurse must cultivate. I have managed to master these traits. My goal as a nurse is to care for the sick and not be emotional when they yell, talk down at me or spit at me. The patient well being comes first over my feelings. I became a nurse to help folks when they're sick- I try to only concentrate on this goal. Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a special person. To all my devoted nurses out there- THANK YOU. 🙏🏾
I absolutely believe people who are getting close to passing see loved ones and angels. I’ve seen it at work and with my own family. I believe it’s to provide comfort and let the patient know it’s okay to let go when they are ready. I will DM you the story if my grandmas passing, it was such a beautiful thing to see.
I work in a nursing home and I make sure to open the window for all that passes away... the only times I've encountered ghosts has been when the window was closed... So I always open the window, tell them that they are free to go now and the ghost/feeling of being watched disappears near instantly.
Thank you for creating this platform, it’s something special for sure. You’ve opened a dialogue, provided a safe space to have it and it’s accessible to those of us far and wide- it’s much needed and appreciated. Taking care of the care taker! I honestly think you’ve broken through with something that will end up going a looooong long way, Nurse John. Kudos to you. Also- I wanted to reach through and just hug you when you talked about your grandpa, that was a touching story and one so many of us have, I cried! Thank you! We love you! Besos!
I definitely believe in the witching hours, and I also think it start around 3-4AM. This episode felt so spooky. I really liked it, I hope we get more stories like these ❤😂
Crazy!!! There is an afterlife and there is an unseen realm. This is really interesting to have patient and staff encounters. Would love to hear more about this.
As an intern sometimes I was so tired with my 36 hour shifts with no spare beds available in the intern room, I would just at times drop off to sleep for an hour or so on the patient beds in a less populated ward, specially when there was a kind enough nurse to allow me to do so as most of them didn’t allow. I never was afraid of ghosts or the number of patients who might have passed away on that bed but I was definitely worried of any infection that I might contract due to lying on a patient’s bed… anyways I had my own sheets and blanket and avoided lying directly on the hospital bedsheets and chose those beds which would remain isolated/ empty usually throughout the year.
I studied nursing at a college which has a directly affiliated hospital. I’ve heard and have seen a few things. The one I’ve heard but havent personally known as I didnt rotate in the ICU was there’s a nurse who can actually see when patients are nearing their journey. There was always either a white shadow or a black one hovering and waiting to pick them up. Its said that they even saw something like a white mist lifting up from the person (which they suspect is the soul). Also I dunno if its the same elsewhere, but there’s always the rules of 3. Esp in icu. If 1 thing happens, its highly likely 2nd and 3rd would come along. Most of the other stories are from my own direct experiences or from someone I know.
I believe that when patients die unhappy or unrested at facilities their spirits come back to haunt the nursing homes/hospitals. 😦 Ive had some creepy encounters where i used to work but nothing too crazy
Bc of Nurse John, I've really started to appreciate nurses irl on another level. They do soo much ofc we should thank them for taking care of our loved ones! Loving the podcasts ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for the social worker shout out! I worked as a social worker a few years back and the stuff that I experienced traumatized me and definitely changed me. My purpose was to help the children and those who wanted it. It was very difficult. I'm just glad I was able to do it for a few years and I hope I made a difference in some of their lives. You go nurse John! You are amazing and so are all of the RN's! Much love
Nurses are a different breed of incredible human being... Every single one that I have had the pleasure of meeting has been an angel... I have never met a healthcare professional that didn't end up having a jolly good laugh with me... Perhaps my attitude towards those whose care I am in is one of self preservation... However... Common sense tells me that we need a little more kindness in this world... 🇿🇦
I am listening to a new favorite therapy podcast, I Beg Your Pardon. I could listen to you talk all day and I really resonated with you when you mentioned your grandpa seeing ghosts before passing away because the same thing happened with my great grandmother. Before she passed she mentioned that my great grandfather had been calling her to go with him that he was scared to go alone and she would respond not yet because they need me. (My great grandfather had a died of a stroke three days prior to my great grandmothers death). (Thank you for sharing Nurse John❤).
I think the elderly patients are more likely to see things because they subconsciously know that their time is comming soon. I worked as CNA and I have seen some crazy stuff too. It can be a week or it can be a full on year. But they seem to feel it comming and their body kind of allowed them to be more open to be things around them. Even if it something strange. Sometimes that strange scary stuff is actually comforting for them. My relative had something similar too, she gave me a soft smile and a nod letting me know that she knew it was her time and she was OK with it. She never told me if she had a visitor, but I had a spirit visitor who brought her to me in my sleep night before I saw her and her spirit literally told me that she knew she was about to go soon, but she wanted to see her family and have one last get-together with as many loved ones as possible. Than the spirit took her back away. I saw her next day. She was still alive. She looked at me directly in my eyes, gave me a smile and a nod. I knew she wanted me to stay silent about it. But make sure I cam as much to see her untill she decided it she had her time on here and she was ready. Few weeks later, we had a family get-together. Small amount to people. Her granddaughters birthday. She looked so happy, even though she could not walk, talk and had to be taken care of for everything. She gave me a huge smile with this beutiful lit up eyes with stars in her eyes and the biggest happiest smile she had since she got sick almost year ago. She passed few days later.
I am crying. I used to be a horror flick chick but Shutter ruined me. Worse was when I re-watched it in college with friends and it was nothing to them, while I was scared for weeks again. Love this podcast episode Nurse John! I also work at healthcare but in the back office. We also stay until the witching hour or until the morning, once or twice a month. We try not to ride the elevator alone because the silence is deafening and we're scared to encounter the supernatural. We also experience hearing voices or shadows running in our office so no one goes in alone in the office. 😅
I'm so glad I've found your podcast, I love your reels! I'm a former Corpsman (medic in the Navy) turned paramedic. I absolutely love your content. I can absolutely relate, especially since I'm on team night shift.
Nurse John I'm living in Nova Scotia Canada I was a nurse for 24 years, in all areas! Right now,I'm off on my 3rd brain surgery so not sure how this will be. I just literally started to follow u and I subscribed to you. In the " shorts" you have it right " on the head,every time"!!! I never ever thought that I would miss nursing soo much.I am depressed about it ,so ,perhaps in some way, you can pick me up! Sending love to you and all dedicated nurses who do SO MUCH WITH LITTLE THANKS...sending love to ALL health care workers!! Lovingly Johanna Nickerson from Nova Scotia Canada
Hospitals, cemeteries and old houses were our "amusement" in the early 80s to late 90s. If a relative was in the hospital, all souls day and visiting great grandparents in their old house...we get to play ghost busters lol. The dare was to touch any person we think was a spirit. I tell you there were more times we have seen ghosts in hospitals. Witching hour starts 2am. It was never midnight. 😂
Former CNA here. There’s one time I was working with another girl and we were actually in her great grandmother‘s room we had assisted her to the bathroom and we’re just getting her back in the bed. She was sitting up taking a drink of water and I was standing a little bit further away from her and her granddaughter, when suddenly, the sweet little lady goes who is that in points in my direction. Her granddaughter goes oh you know who that is that so-and-so and she goes no not her the man behind her. I have never ran so fast in my life. I was out the door fastest than ever. Lucky for me. As soon as I got to the hallway I called that went off just across the hall so I went into that room to help them. The coworker I was with was like don’t leave me alone. I holler back at her you’re not alone you’re with your grandmother, and whoever that guy is. I never went back into that room by myself.
I deal with harrassment on a daily basis; I learnt to simply tell them the behaviour is not appropriate and walk away. They usually change their tune when I return a while later; You are right, John, setting boundaries is important! Even if you need to remind them daily of those boundaries.
I enjoyed listening your podcast John! You are famous among our Nepalese nurses group. I personally Love you content and all videos . Much love from Nepal 🇳🇵.
I had an injury in 2013 that took me out of nursing, this makes me feel good, like ive had a lunch break with my peeps🙌🙌🙌🙌 i hope you continue this! Thank you your furboulous btw🥰🤗
I live with three Filipino women and I work 12 hours solo night for a small lock down dementia facility. I love your show. I feel like I can relate because it on.😅
Close to death patients have one foot here and one foot there ..is the best way i can put it..because theyre so close to the otherside the veil is patially open so they can and do see spirits who have passed
Had a patient in the ICU, He was in a coma for two weeks and his vitals were stable but generally not good. His son was a CEO of a huge company far away and he could not come for three weeks. The father seriously made it to three weeks, the son actually arrived a day later and as soon as he opened the door and said "dad I'm here" the monitor showed that his heartbeat had stopped.
Maybe 6 months or so before my dad passed, I'd hear him talking in his room. I'd ask him who he was talking to and he'd start naming off friends and family who were long dead. It's absolutely wild that this happens when people are close to death.
I work in the ER. I totally agree with the therapy. We can only handle as much capacity as normal human being. Imagine the load or experience of one 12hr shift x 3 or even 4 ? ? . And this is just telling you the nature of our job in healthcare that other people don’t understand. … thanks for sharing this #nursejohnn in the public ❤❤
Hey John, I absolutely love your podcasts! Since I’ve graduated from college, luckily nothing spooky has happened, but when I was in high school I was a food aide in an old hospital. The current kitchen used to be the old morgue, and if you looked outside, you could see the smoke stack they used for cremations. Totally wild. There’s a hallway that runs by the kitchen, and there are glass windows that let you see into the hall. I looked over my shoulder one day and saw an old candy striper down the hall. I shrugged and went about my business, until I realized that it’s 2014 and we didn’t have candy stripers at this hospital. Occasionally I would join the staff to bring food over to the nursing home, which was attached to the hospital. I shit you not, the only way to get there without walking all the way around the building was to walk through the old body chute, where you would enter a dimly lit elevator. I have a lot more stories from that hospital, but those stand out the most😬
Hahaha omg I’m dying over the manual extraction 💩 My first hospital job was on a LTACH wound care floor. Many patients were quads or paras, and had bowel programs to be completed multiple times per week. The look of horror on my face the first time I learned I had to give a suppository and complete digital stimulation to allow the patient to have their bowel movement was 😳. They definitely didn’t mention that in nursing school 😂
I'm a new nightshift nurse, and recently we had a room where the call light kept going off. The only thing is, the room was empty. Well, later that night, we got a new admit, and around 2-3 a.m., the bed alarm went off and said "OUT OF BED" on all our monitors. Three other nurses and I ran in there, and...the patient was fast asleep, snoring. This happened six more times before we left her door wide open and ignored the light. I later found out that the room is notorious for being HAUNTED!
It's hilarious to hear that the inspiration for Mr Smith crawling in the ceiling came from an experience on the Psych ward 🤣 cuz my own experience with a patient crawling thru the ceiling was ALSO in psych hahahahaaa
Got out of my abusive relationship 2 years ago, the man I’m with now is the complete opposite and it just proves anyone can do it. It’s hard to leave and I never thought I’d become one of those women. It can happen to anybody man or woman but you need to find the strength to get out. You’re worth more than you think and make sure you take the time to heal before you try to move into anything else. Sending love and support I know it’s hard 😕🫶🏼
I had a night shift nurse tell me once that the floor we were on use to be the L/D floor and he had found a pt sitting the floor and refusing to return to his room. The pt said he heard a women crying and saw a women walk through the second half of the room. (Since it had been a labor and delivery room it had this small closet sized room that had an accordion door) so ever sincevhe told me id always be creeped out going into that room. Also was walking down the hall to my pt's room and passed an WWII vets room and he was sitting up leaning on his bed rail talking to someone (that wasnt there) in the chair next to him. Ive never walked so fast in my life😅 his nurse told me later that she jad walked in his room and found him "talking" to 3 of his friemda that she found out from family had died burin the war.
Loving this podcast so far!! Lots of stories here that make me feel happy, sad, emotional and all of that in between! The hospice nurse stories get me as I worked with a child as a home caregiver for half of his life before he passed away earlier this year 🥲 so sad, but also so rewarding and I stay friends with his family still 🥰🤍
Nurse John i love love love you❣ I am not a nurse but I used to be in a nursing school and I can see how the future it could've been if I pursued it. Part of me glad I didn't and part of me wish I did after seeing my mom took her last breath in the hospice with me. 😢
In F&B world going to be the barista... we heard everything, we see everything and we get asked for everything its like "OMG I'm the Barista I should know hot to fix it!" People sometimes over share their trauma & also traumatized us. We also underpaid & underappreciated than the chef 😢
Years ago when I worked in the UK as a nurse, I took a break and was told by the charge nurse to use the bed in a room which I did. While asleep , I had a weird dream, I saw a boy blond around 12 - 14 years old. This boy sat next to me and said hi .I can’t remember what happen next but I woke up from my alarm . While I made some coffee, my co worker came to the break room and told him about my dream and she just look at me weird. When I told my charge nurse, she said that several years ago when that room was still used as a patient room, a boy about 12 was the last one who died in that room. After that, I refused to go to sleep or go to that room anymore 😂
I am used to my patients telling me there’s a lil girl or lil boy next to me when I’m talking or feeding them working in Nursing Homes it doesn’t scare me at all😅 I just asked them what’s their name and how do they look😅😅😅 I could tell a lot of funny and strange and interesting stories working in Nursing Homes.
As we grow up we are told to ignore these apparitions. So, the blinders go on... as we get older, near death then those blinders come off and we are then to see all that is seen and UNSEEN!😇🙏
My grandpa waited for both my brother and I to get to the hospital before he let go. It is so bittersweet. Where I live, We just lost another member of our queer community this week. It is also our pride weekend & it too, will be bittersweet. We are trying to move forward together & celebrate their life, and grieve our loss together.
Shutter... them 2000s asian horror movies were on some level 😂 the grudge 2 scarred me for life growing up, i don't think I'll be watching shutter, my normal dreams are nightmarish already thank ypu
I've had an aunt who was close to dying due to a car accident. She said while she was on 50-50, we she can already see her deceased grandpa, her uncle that died in front of my mother, and other relatives that died, watching her. But those people made her not want to give up on the weakness she was already feeling co'z it's an indication to her that she was close to death. I also remember my grandma (a relative) that stayed in our house to be nursed, before she gave her last breath, she said her husband (died first before her) was here, her mother and father were also here, telling her to come with them. My mom also happened to be with my grandma, holding her hand. She only told her to go with them. She died a peaceful death.
When my mom passed, she had been talking to my dead grandpa for the entire day. She said he was in the corner of the ceiling, waiting for her😢 After my strokes, when u was still barely conscious, i heard/saw people in my room at 3a.m every single night idk who was in there with me but they were hiding behind the privacy curtain smoking. Id like to think ir was my mom & grandpa. Before my strokes, i was a nurse in a senior home & was with many patients as patients as they took their last breath & when they're ready, they weren't afraid to tell me by saying so n so is here to pick me up.
Hi, I had a patient who was impacted. John, it was the size of a baseball. Well, I was trying to grab it with my fingers, obviously I had double gloved and it was such a long process. After one hour I had not made much progress. So I grabbed a small spoon and slowly started to dig my way in and the ball started to get smaller. I was so afraid of hurting her that it actually took me about two hours to get the impaction out. The doctor would have scheduled her for surgery, however, she had a very bad heart condition and had a aortic aneurism which they were keeping an eye on. I guess it’s true what they say, when it comes to nursing, and you’re dealing with all of this, no one ever promises you a Rosegarden. Love your podcast John! Kindest regards, Susan from Ontario
The elderly always see little kids! In my facility I had two old ladies that said the same before they RIP. They saw a little boy and girl in there room.
Hydrated , medicated, caffeinated & always ready for the tea 🫖🖤🖖🏻 I am loving your podcast! Can’t wait to see where it goes, and what special guests you may have ! Like… maybe @ Lady Spine Doc ? :D
Oh. My. Gosh. I was a bartender for 8 years! 8 long years lol and I have been called every name in the book plus some😂 I've had all kinds of people nit pick everything about me! I never thought about it but I bet nurses are treated the same way!!! Drunk people and medicaed have many opinions the just have to share😂I can't imagine trying to save someone life and they pick apart everything about you! People can be awful
