What patient population do you enjoy working with the most?

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Infants, Young Children, Older Children, Young Adults, Older Adults, or Elderly?

Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I enjoy working with comatose patients and those who are in persistent vegetative states, since they cannot verbally abuse me, complain, or make any demands of me. I also love Alzheimer's patients since they are confused and forgetful.

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

I LOVE babies and would work with them til I breathe my last if they allow me to! :)

I like new moms and pregnant women, too.

I also LOVE working with migrant farmworkers.

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Specializes in Intensive Care and Cardiology.

I love working with Cardiac patients, age perferably older than 40!

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Specializes in Dialysis.
Amen to that! I love working with patient's who mostly speak Spanish and I find myself commmunicating in my broken Spanish to them. It's comical and patient's have fun trying to solve the riddle of what I'm driving at when speaking. I explained benifit of it to someone who said that my Spanish was very poor indeed. Well, I said if you hear a foreigner say: "Big Rock run fast over hill, you move now!" Are you going to correct his English? "Dear fellow you must use proper English when addressing an American..." -- WHAM!

i agree! i love my Spanish-speakers! they teach me so much, and I would like to think i sort of teach them, too!

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Specializes in Dialysis.
I enjoy working with comatose patients and those who are in persistent vegetative states, since they cannot verbally abuse me, complain, or make any demands of me. I also love Alzheimer's patients since they are confused and forgetful.

Commuter, you are "staff" now? Go you!

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Surgery, patient is asleep and family can't enter into that world.

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the elderly, hands down.

i respected them, as a kid.

honored them, as an adult.

and totally enjoy them, as a nurse.

love, love, LOVE them. :bow::heartbeat:bow:

leslie

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Oh the frail elderly hands down. They have such a rich store of memories that someone needs to hear at least once more. My mother has alzheimer's and I would dearly love to hear a story, any story once more. I made her a notebook of short stories she has told over and over. How my grandmother took over as county jailer when my gf died. How Mama met Daddy at Palisaides park shooting gallery. Each time she opens it she always says....."Why this is my life story!" Like in the movie the Notebook.

Sunday she actually woke from a nap and remembered my name. And THAT's why my LOLs and LOGs are my favorites.

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Older and elderly adults. I've learned so much from them, and their stories are so interesting and amazing. I could sit and listen to them for hours. I'm honored they would think enough of me to share this with me.

Can't do kids, though. No way.

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Specializes in vascular, med surg, home health , rehab,.

The WW2 generation. So inspirational, so grateful for their care, so tough. Give me the grannies/grandpas any day.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Psych..

I love working with elderly population, I love the stories of "good ol time" that they share with me.

I took care of this 100 yrs old alert and oriented lady, I asked her what was the secret behind her looking so young....she told me it was the kiss that she got from her husband every night before she went to sleep:)

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The WW2 generation. So inspirational, so grateful for their care, so tough. Give me the grannies/grandpas any day.
Amen.

An elderly couple told me of how they'd dated in high school, then he went off to war. They drifted apart, got married to others, had kids, lived on opposite coasts, lost touch with each other. Both of their spouses died, and they each ended up moving back to their hometown. Met and rekindled their love about a month before she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. She didn't want to burden him, but he insisted he loved her and wanted to be married for whatever time they had left together.

She died not long after they wed. I was there the night she died, and he hugged me so tight, thanking me for helping them get through this. Later, he started to volunteer at the hospital, and every time I saw him he'd grab me and tear up, calling me his 'frog princess' (I'd come to visit them dressed like that on Halloween while she was in the hospital).

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