How does it make you feel?

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How does it make you feel when you find out your patient is a nurse? I feel deceived... Trust me this is one of my favorite patients and I'm just curious as to why she didn't tell me. She still doesn't know that I know and she has been a nurse since before I was born. It just saddens me that she is not concerned about her wellbeing. I know she has other issues and maybe she felt if she told me I wouldnt treat her like my other patients??? All my other patients let me know up front that they are a nurse or have nurses in the family. Am I wrong for feeling deceived??

Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
Once again.. the question was how would you feel..not decipher my posts .. and it can be very well contradictory.. is that wrong of me?

No one is saying that you wrong....and you are certainly able to have 2 contradictory feelings at the same time. I think people are a bit confused as to why you are feeling deceived. I don't think anyone has said that you cannot feel that way; they are saying that they would not feel that way and point out the danger of reacting with the feelings that you had. :twocents:

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Just figure you are best in treating all your patients similarly.

I'm not the type to tell.

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is this pt of yours, a hospice pt?

leslie

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Specializes in hospice, HH, LTC, ER,OR.

Nope..

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