JacksonCare

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1. Nursing Boundaries...can I go feed my patients cats?

   JacksonCare replied to srg4784's topic in Relations

   If I were u I'd call a pet sitting service to come everyday while the pt is in the hospital. Just about all medium and large cities have pet sitting services plus alot of animal hospitals have workers who do pet sitting as a side job.

2. Pressing Charges Against a Patient

   JacksonCare replied to missjustice's topic in Relations

   Some of these incidents sound terrible. It would be useful to hear details about what happened immediately before the assaults occurred. Were the patients just sitting there quietly, or did anything lead up to the assaults? Not a complete picture o...

3. Nurse Interfering with Medical Care, AGAIN!

   JacksonCare posted a topic in Relations

   One my my younger sister's closest friends has a history of heart trouble and had an episode of atrial fib last nite in which the paramedics were called. This morning on her way to work she stopped by her cardiologist's office and was told to come b...

4. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

   JacksonCare replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Safety

   Why don't the nurses simply apologize and make amends for the delays they subjected the grandmother and granddaughter to, and then move on to improving customer service? Waitstaff at busy restaurants routinely handle several tables with multiple cus...

5. Slow nurse response time is a danger to pt health

   JacksonCare replied to SoCalCrafter's topic in Safety

   Such lack of compassion for the sick grandmother and worried granddaughter. At least it's clear who the enemy is.

6. "If they really cared about their mom, they wouldn't of put her in a nursing home"

   JacksonCare replied to Bruce_Wayne's topic in Geriatric

   Our Dad is paying roughly $30K per year for part-time home health aides, plus my sisters and I each chip in $5K each to help pay for the aide and various household and medical expenses. Apart from Dad's occasional short-term hospital stays partly pa...

7. "If they really cared about their mom, they wouldn't of put her in a nursing home"

   JacksonCare replied to Bruce_Wayne's topic in Geriatric

   I whole-heartedly agree w some of the posters who've pointed out how some old people have been abusive to their children and do not deserve to have loving caregivers. If someone has been abusive or destructive they definitely deserve to be gotten rid...

8. "If they really cared about their mom, they wouldn't of put her in a nursing home"

   JacksonCare replied to Bruce_Wayne's topic in Geriatric

   Several of the pro-nursing home posters mentioned that their "loved" ones, either child or elderly parent, died while in the nursing home, and I wonder if anyone has ever considered the possibility their family member died as a RESULT of the shoddy "...