So our story begins with moving into our new unit about 1 year ago. The down fall to this new unit is the person that designed it wasn't nor ever has been someone that actually does patient care. In our unit, three rooms are particularly close to the nurses station, rooms 4, 5, and 6. Naturally, being able to see the patients is very important when the patients aren't doing the greatest. Usually we use these rooms for the the sicker patients so we can keep an eye on them. Recently, things have gotten quite extreme with room 4. Since i work in Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unite, or CVICU, most of are patients need heart surgery one way or another. Usually most of the patients have issues prior and surgery is scheduled. However, every once in a while we have those emergent patients that have a cardiac arrest at home and end up here. A few of these patients have ended up in room 4 simply being the room was open and close to the nurses station. Granted because of their condition, they didn't always make it. Now since we opened the unit, the so called death toll in that room started to climb. Granted this isn't the only room that somebody has passed away in. In fact in looking back at the books, there has been only 2 more persons that passed away in that room compared to say room 6. However, after the fourth person passed away in that room our staff started going crazy.
Day shift nurses started it saying the room is haunted and there is a ghost in that room. One of our surgeons totally fed off that and declared that room unsuitable for his patients. As things started to escalate, the hospital chaplain was summoned to bless the room and pray over that room. This all occurred on day shift. Our night shift nurses were in complete awe regarding these whole entire shenanigans. Night shift realized that half of all the patients that passed away in that room did so after being found unresponsive after cardiac arrest, who knows how long they had been down and miraculously were brought back to life never to fully awaken. Never mind the fact it wasn't like these patients walked into this room and passed away. These patients were totally critically ill prior to arriving in the room. The final draw came when on the patients passed away in the OR and was supposed to come back to this room. Never mind the fact the patient had never entered the room, but since their name was supposed to come to the room, Room 4 was closed. No more patients to that room for the duration of the summer. Since the chaplain's blessing obliviously didn't work, Day shift nurses and the surgeon decided to broaden their abilities. Now they were turning to the Catholic church looking for a priest to do an exorcism of the room or in the room, or whatever they were trying to do. I'm just sitting back watching all these people getting worked up over this room when nobody is looking at what type of patients are included. Totally entertaining.
After the so called summer vacation and exorcism, Room 4 is back in business as usual. Since then nothing weird has happened. Haven't seen a staff member walk into the room and suddenly disappear or anything, but i keep looking and waiting.
More to come soon....
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