Good nursing or learned dependence?

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What is it with patients who don't want to be discharged?

My hospital has what seems to be a large number of patients that resist discharge. The discharge day comes, and they get very anxious about it. They usually are "allowed" to stay another one or two days, with the only new order coming in for PT/OT. It's weird.

Has this phenomenon been going on a long time, or I am just beginning to notice it?

Most of the units on my hospital move you out as fast as possible. We have enough of an issue with bed blockers waiting for a nursing home bed to prolong stays.

Being a regional centre, we will send you home to your local hospital if you really want extra time, but even the rural hospitals are short of beds.

But there are several recent patients who come to mind thought the big, illuminated "H" on the building mistook it for a "hotel" vacancy sign.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

To Fiona59 - It's a 'capital H'- I think THEY think it's for 'the Hilton".:cheeky:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

Also, with some, the hospital is the ONLY place they can come in and throw their weight around and it HAS to be tolerated. Some of these folks have alienated their families, yet continue to fail to see the problem within themselves.

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