Biased Care...

[S.N. Visit]

I'm having an abdominoplasty (T.T) in three weeks , so I've been visiting a plastic surgery forum. I am alarmed at how many post I've read about nurses being biased in giving pt. care when they find out they are caring for someone who's having plastic surgery. (Ex: leaving pt's in pain, bad attitudes etc). The majority of the posters stated, their nurse "sucked"......

Do you feel any differently if someone has elected to have plastic surgery ?

[RN1989]

I've never seen a problem with nurses having issues with plastics patients. Elective surgeries are what keeps hospitals and surgicenters in business, meaning nurses have jobs.

I do know that a lot of the plastics patients I have seen that ended up with infections also did not follow instructions for care. Some even "forgot" their follow up appts - after all, it was an elective surgery, not something done for an illness or injury.

Maybe the people that you got the info from felt bad after they got a stern talking to from their doctor or nurse and the patients knew that they didn't follow the aftercare rules right. Can't tell you how many women I have seen that thought it was ok to go sunbathe after surgeries and then ended up swimming, or being dunked - all because they didn't want to tell people that they had surgery and the incision was not quite healed yet.