Re: Nurses I hate to follow ...
Oh come on, she probably wasn't actually dead when whoever it was was feeding her.
I am not trying to vindicate the stuff that is discussed here, I have seen most of it, or a similar version myself.
A lot of you nurses are going to be like me, you won't last, whereas these you are complaining about will be home sucking up on a nice retirement someday.
A large part of the problem, the way I see it, is the belief that the modern health care system can cure anything, even death.
A LOT of patients, or their families, should take a realistic look at their conditions and make themselves DNR, (and yes I know that does not mean 'don't treat'), and when the time to go on to whatever comes next is coming , there should be some way to address that in a humane manner.
After all, even a dying animal has enough instinctual 'smarts' to stop eating.
In the LTC you have to go through the motions, even if it against all good sense.
The patient was probably fed by some CNA who tried to do what they were told they must do in order to get their paycheck.
The 'savy' CNA would have done what the 'savy' nurses who are sitting at the desk or out smoking are doing.
Let nature take it's course, and hang in there so they can make a couple of bucks to support themselves and their families.
Just playing Devils Advocate, but say the truth, sometimes preforming, or not preforming nursing care is just another way of saying 'look at me, I work so much harder than so and so".
If no one had fed this patient then the battle cry would have been, she was lethargic and no one even fed her so she got so weak she died.
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