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Jan 13, 2009 11:58 PM

God Bless LTC Staff

by Toquay

I just want to say Thank you all for being there. Thank you for your patience and understanding not only with our loved ones that are patients but with some of our less than easy to please family members. Thank for staying in a job so many nurses could not or would not do due to the overwhelming ratios you handle. Thank you for often being the only faces some of our elderly see due to no family or family that has moved on in their own lives (sad but true for so many patients). All of you, whether its titled nurses, techs, aides, various therapists, housekeepers and any others I may not have mentioned are true angels in life and to the medical profession. I have a mother that is in LTC in another state and sisters that live in the same area and I know they don't always understand the workloads and demands. I work in the ER and could never in a million years do what you all do day in and day out. God Bless.

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from Jo Dirt
Old Jan 14, 2009, 12:27 AM

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Thank you. I've realized after so many years in nursing that I love the old folks where I work (at a nursing home.) They are like a second family to me.
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Old Jan 14, 2009, 12:33 AM

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Thank you for your respectful, kind words. I'm always appreciative when an LTC outsider attempts to place themselves in our shoes.
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Old Jan 14, 2009, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Toquay View Post
I just want to say Thank you all for being there. Thank you for your patience and understanding not only with our loved ones that are patients but with some of our less than easy to please family members. Thank for staying in a job so many nurses could not or would not do due to the overwhelming ratios you handle. Thank you for often being the only faces some of our elderly see due to no family or family that has moved on in their own lives (sad but true for so many patients). All of you, whether its titled nurses, techs, aides, various therapists, housekeepers and any others I may not have mentioned are true angels in life and to the medical profession. I have a mother that is in LTC in another state and sisters that live in the same area and I know they don't always understand the workloads and demands. I work in the ER and could never in a million years do what you all do day in and day out. God Bless.

Toq
Thanks. I just read your OP after coming off a long shift in a LTC facility. You definately made my morning!!!! There are a lot of Nurses who could or wouldn't deal with the stuff that comes along in the ER. You are the front line of healthcare!!!
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Old Jan 14, 2009, 08:47 AM

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Its a tough job but someones gotta do it :-)
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Old Jan 14, 2009, 11:46 AM

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From a Peds RN:

You guys in LTC absolutely ROCK!!! The care my precious MIL received during her last month was awesome. They took such good care of her and she seemed comfortable as she could be. The day she died, one of the aides whom she really liked had been off for a couple of days and didn't know of her rapid decline. She walked in with a big smile on her face for Miss Polly, realized what was happening and just broke down! The staff cried with us and her final cares were done with great dignity & respect. They even had some beautiful flowers to place in her hands.

I couldn't do your job and bless you all for what you do so very, very well with very little thanks.
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Old Jan 14, 2009, 01:42 PM

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Thank you!!

And thanks to the OP as well for doing a job (ER) that I could never do in a million years!
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