Spooky tales of things that go bump on the night shift
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Spooky tales of things that go bump on the night shift

Daniel Allen Health journalist

From spirits in sluice rooms to angels in the ED, stories of ghostly encounters are familiar in nursing. We share some of them, and consider what they might mean

The nurse was cleaning a patient’s fingernails when she felt a presence. She looked up and saw another nurse across the bed, ‘real as anything’, with a large red cross on her apron.

Nursing Standard. 37, 5, 14-17. doi: 10.7748/ns.37.5.14.s11

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