burberrylover

burberrylover

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  1. This past week was a difficult one for my brother. After caring for a lady with cerebral palsy for 14 years(She lived in), she died. It started on the 21st when he brought her into the ER due to stomach pain. After doing a scan, it was determined tha...
  2. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    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 a piece of paper with a funeral parlor's name on ...
  3. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    I am not debating. I am pointing out there is another side and I think that irritates you.
  4. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    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 the pt's side, the healthcare members side, and t...
  5. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

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

    And how can you be so sure that my brother is lying?
  7. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    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 properly. My brother had requested that she not be s...
  8. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    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 the way they did. I don't have to be a nurse to u...
  9. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

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

    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 namecalling like a two year old.
  11. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

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

    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 hope that my brother gets it. Those nurses were the ...
  13. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    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. So,I tend to believe him. After reading some of the p...
  14. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    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 that I disagree or do not appreciate or insights. I ...
  15. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    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 work?
  16. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    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 situation. I did remind my brother of that and he told...
  17. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    From my experience (and this is only a possibility because I was obviously not there), I have found many times when telling a loved one something they don't want to hear, they tend to preceive the message as "rude", even if it wasn't. If you read th...
  18. Medical staff rude to my brother;complicated;advice please

    Thank you for your replies. A few things: 1) The living will was not found until Sunday, after the emergency surgery took place. Apparently, the DRs were able to go through with the surgery before having that in hand. Once it was brought in and exam...
  19. So very mad!!!

    2. an ill jewish pt. is fasting during (insert jewish fasting holiday). what should you do? a. remind the pt. that some religions excuse ill pts. from fasting i put this answer because this is what it says in our book. but apprently it's respect the ...
  20. Applying to GBCC

    You don't need to have them done but if you do, it looks really, really good!
  21. Circumcision at change of shift?

    I am not a Jew but when I was pregnant with my first (we were told it was a boy and were surprised when we had a girl) the first thing I did after the u/s was to get hold of a mohel(Ex and I had decided to circ) for that very reason. The rabbi was ve...
  22. My daughter brought home head lice and...

    I wanted to add something: Head lice is not a sign of someone being unclean or dirty. Body lice, yes. Head lice,no. My girls have had lice in the past and, trust me, they are/were cleaner than clean:)
  23. HELP Resident calling baby "stupid" What to do!!!??

    I think that there are better coping mechanisms than to swear at a baby:(
  24. HELP Resident calling baby "stupid" What to do!!!??

    It makes me sad that some of you take care of our most vulnerable patients:(
  25. My God....the politics....

    I am currently in an LNA program. There is one student ( I will call her Joan) who comes across as being needy and who lacks any assertiveness at all. The instructor has let the word out among a few of the classmates that she does not want to pass Jo...