Nurse posts letter to her patient - Reddit

[Swede]

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/pqm303/an_open_letter_to_my_patient/

[cate94]

1. Powerful

And horrifying.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Wow powerful stuff

[3catwoman3]

3. I cannot even imagine going in to work every day when all the patients...

...are like this. Bedside nursing is hard work, and always has been. It shouldn't be this hard.

I left the bedside very early in my career, and became a nurse practitioner - outpatient pediatrics, which is a generally happy specialty. These nurses have physical and emotional stamina that leaves me in awe. I couldn't do it.

[LakeArenal]

9. And such kindness. My SIL retired from emergency room nurse.

So calming and stalwart.

[stopdiggin]

4. excruciating

a lot of our nursing community are walking PTSD ...

[central scrutinizer]

5. I've added "do not intubate" to my advanced directive.

I’ve had a good run and my affairs are in order. Pump me full of morphine, wheel me into a corner and let me get out of your way.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Very powerful open letter.

What will it take for these people to learn? SMH.

[Tommymac]

7. Don't do FB much - but had to share this there.

It's totally horrifying.

Reality BITES.

I feel for the nurse and ALL Health Care workers. You all are the salt of the Earth.

[Mr.Bill]

8. My daughter is an RN and runs the family birth cxenter at our local hospital.

Maybe someday she will be able to write about watching a mother die from Covid minutes before her baby was born, but I doubt it. The Hospital had to have counselors come in and deal with the entire staff after that one.