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In reply to the discussion: From a nurse's perspective... [View all]Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)28. thanks for posting this. my stays in the hospital are usually 4-5 days. for the last 3 yrs
and all future yrs i need surgery annually. my last stay, i wasn't nice to my night nurse. we argued and she could give it as well as take it. the last night she came in and i only had to walk to the door for release and i was beyond ready to leave. we tried to walk to the door. Failed. she came back in couple hrs, we failed. she did this all night long. Morning came, we did it.
she could have easily said i walked on the first try. i would have backed her and she knew it. Instead she decided, no matter how a difficult patient is, her heart and profession compelled her to keep me going.
all my nurses in the future will have a much more understanding patient
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Thank you Nurses...the backbone of our healthcare institutions. And next time I want to complain
UniteFightBack
Apr 2019
#2
Sitting b the bedside of an actively dying person hours after shift ends so they won't be alone
uppityperson
Apr 2019
#6
"If nurses get tired working 8 hours, they shouldn't work 12 hours". No, Waish, you uncaring
uppityperson
Apr 2019
#9
On second thought, let me just say Nurses are saints and that job ain't easy. (n/t)
Iggo
Apr 2019
#27
Thank you for this as it sheds a lot of light on someone very close and dear to me.
yonder
Apr 2019
#21
thanks for posting this. my stays in the hospital are usually 4-5 days. for the last 3 yrs
Kurt V.
Apr 2019
#28
And the writer left out the horror of your patient looking deep into your eyes, begging you to kill
Maru Kitteh
Apr 2019
#31
Walsh's hostility shows she has a huge axe to grind with nurses. I wonder what her problem is.
Cousin Dupree
Apr 2019
#35
Thank you for this, babylonsister. Nurses are the backbone of the medical profession.
Aristus
Apr 2019
#36
What quite frankly horrifies me is that nurses work 12 hour shifts.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Apr 2019
#40