Your Ideal Patient

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If you could tell your patients anything, what would you tell them that would help them be your ideal Patient?

For instance: I would ask my Patient to bring extra blankets and pillows for themselves and any family member staying with them. This would help my Patient to be more of an ideal patient for me, because we usually only have enough bedding for each patient to have 1-2 pillows and 1 blanket. But yet many of them always want more than this and also want us to provide their family members with pillows and blankets too.

Thank-you! :)

My ideal pt is an interesting, sharp as a tack elderly man or woman with a good sense of humor. He or she has a facinating life story to share, a deeply spiritual aura about them, and does not have a needy personality. They use their call light appropriately, are steady on ambulation, continent, and are getting better each day!:)

These are my ideal pt.'s too. I love to listen to all their stories and experiences. I find them fascinating and absolutely delightful. I also love spry, ornery little old ladies that keep me laughing all day or those who are so pleasantly confused you can't help but love them. :chuckle

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YOU ARE ONE SICK PERSON......I WOULD NEVER WANT YOU TO BE MY NURSE, OR FOR THAT FACT YOU SHOULDN'T BE A NURSE AT ALL!!!!

This site is so we all can speak our minds, but you're mind is not working properly.....maybe you should be working in a funeral home and there you would have the perfect "patient".

Oh fer the love 'o Mike, here we go again.

Please read the entire thread. I already addressed this issue.

Angioplasty -- What i think should have been done in sue's case and others like it, since i have been in something like it myself is, when you have an anxious patient, just talk with them about normal stuff, if you have to go take care of another patient that is fine just say so, but if you have time go back and finish the conversation. When I was 12 i had surgury, not my first so i was not even anxious, and since my nurse had time she sat down and just talked with me, you kno she started when she was doing my vital signs and just decided since she was not very busy to stay. she had to go and take care of another patient and i thought she would not be back however mabey 30 min later she was back in my room to finish our conversation. you kno we were talking about every day things not even the medical reason i was in the hospital, i had told her i would be getting braces sometime soon and we were discussing that. It really makes you feel good when a nurse shows that much interest in you that they actually remember to come back, she did not even have to ask what we had been discussing she just came back in and started again. she was telling me stories about when she had braces and giving me advise. this feels excelent

Well, here I am at work. I have my ideal pt under my care tonight. She's a 90 yr old lol, had a minor stroke and is going home tommorrow. Turns out I took care of her husband 10 years ago when I worked in a local nrsg home. He was there for 3 months before he died, and I recognised the last name.

We got to talking, and she told me all about her husband, whom she loved dearly. "He was an angel!" she said. She confided in me that even when he was 90 "He liked to have sex EVERY DAY"! :chuckle LOL. What a cute little old lady! She's a peach.

That they aren't the only patients here today and we will re-evaluate you as soon as we can. I work in a very busy ER and the nerve of some people.....

If you could tell your patients anything, what would you tell them that would help them be your ideal Patient?

For instance: I would ask my Patient to bring extra blankets and pillows for themselves and any family member staying with them. This would help my Patient to be more of an ideal patient for me, because we usually only have enough bedding for each patient to have 1-2 pillows and 1 blanket. But yet many of them always want more than this and also want us to provide their family members with pillows and blankets too.

Thank-you! :)

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