Coping c child abuse

Specialties PICU

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Hi PICU folks...

OB/Nursery/GYN lurker here....I used to do a fair amt of outpatient peds in a community health center until DS was born and it used to always make me sick when we had a parent who abused their kid. I could leave the rest of my work at work but not those kids.

I am just wondering how you all cope with seeing a child who is critical because of something their parents have done to them. Do you have staff meetings where you vent? Do you meet c the chaplain? Just wondering how you cope and thanking you for what you do?

Specializes in Med/Surg, Geri, Ortho, Telemetry, Psych.

I am so sorry that you have to deal with such evil pieces of crap. I could not do it if I were you. I worked adolescent and pre-adolescent psych for a little while and we would have parents come visit their children; everyone know their was abuse but it could not be proved. I could not take it. It made me ill physically to treat these wastes of human skin like nothing was wrong. So ran away from that job as fast as my feet could take me. I hope you can find a way to deal with it b/c someone has to and I can't. I'm just not the type of person that could keep my mouth shut in the face of injustice. I would have ended up losing my license. Good luck.:kiss

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