burberrylover

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1. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

   burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Come back once you get through nursing school, pass your boards, and actually work as a nurse and THEN tell me what you think. Again, is yelling at a patient's family member appropriate? Is thrusting...

2. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

   burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I am not debating. I am pointing out there is another side and I think that irritates

3. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

   burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   And I find her comment offensive about nurses being burned out, just because they don't agree with her stance. I'm a new grad working in an ICU and I'm no where near burned out, I just see things from...

4. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

   burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Yes

5. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

   burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   And how can you be so sure that my brother is

6. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

   burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Thank you for your kind words. I really do care for my brother. You see, he is an extremely skittish and gentle person. I am the *****..lol. I have mentioned it before but his friend was medicated...

7. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

   burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Until you are actually a nurse and faced with these situations (and believe me you WILL be faced with them), you have no idea why the nurses and docs and other members of the healthcare team responded...

8. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

   burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

9. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

   burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I am 100% supportive of HCPs being straight and honest. Had the nurse told me brother, "Your friend is going to suffer if you do XYZ" that would have been one thing. Instead, she resorted to...

10. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I do have one question: This lady died within 5 days on the onset. Honestly, could hospice have been set up during this time, keeping in mind that two of those days were Sat and

11. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    While we are not certain that the medical staff meant harm, we are not certain that they did not mean harm either. It could go either way. I do think an apology for their behavior is called for and...

12. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Again, thank you all for your thoughts and insights. Many of you are right....none of us were there to see what happened. All I know is what my brother told me and I know him as a credible person....

13. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm not really sure what your intentions are, but if it obvious that when you realized the majority disagreed with you that you became hostile and argumentative. Who is being hostile? I did not say...

14. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I never said he wanted pain medication to be limited so that she would suffer. Must a person be unconscious on pain meds for them to

15. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    burberrylover replied to burberrylover's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes, I find what was written to be very rude. My point is what actually gets said & what is the caregiver hears (both words and tone)is not always the same thing due to their stress with the...