[aap1966]

As an intern I worked in an old hospital originally run by nuns, so a few stories, all from the oldest ward.

Came on one morning early to find a young patient (early 20s) sitting in the nurses' station. I asked what was going on. The nurses said that he had come out in the early hours and refused to go back to his bed. He said that he awoke to find a nun in an old style habit at the end of his bed staring at him. He thought that was a bit weird, but knew the hospital was a "Convent" hospital. The nun then began to move toward him. When he realised that the nun was not moving toward him beside his bed, but moving through it, he decided it was time to decamp to the nurses station, and refused to go back to the same bed again.

Another time, a "Code" was called on the same ward. I was on the Code Team at that time, we responded and sorted out the problem taking the patient off to ICU. Subsequently, the ward nurses asked why we'd come, as they had just found the patient and hadn't had time to call the Code. All the staff denied activating the Code call, we never found out how it was activated.

In my current hospital's old ICU, we had the one isolation room we typically used for the sickest patients, so the room had a well above average mortality rate associated with it. Because of it's set-up, it was the best room for the night duty guys to have a nap if it was quiet. I never had an issue with it, but a number of otherwise quite level headed staff would refuse to sleep in the room because it was "bad".