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First I would like to start with I am not a nurse, but I have heard about this situation and would like the input of other nurses. There's a patient in his 70's that is dying from liver failure. He was actually dead in the ICU and was revived, but perhaps this wasn't the right thing to do. At the time he wasn't a DNR/DNI (but he is now). His family has four children and two believe that whatever can be done to prolong life including restraints to stop him from pulling out tubes is okay. The other two believe that he should be allowed to die with dignity. He isn't competent according to the hospital so he can't decide. Currently he has both wrist AND mitt restraints stopping him from pulling out drains, ng tubes, foley, etc. He also has a sitter that is constantly watching him. When around him all he does is cry out for you to kill him and let him die, he just wants this to end. Two children that want anything to happen want him to remain restrained anyway possible to force him alive. They also wrote a living will that stated he wanted this but these two were the witnesses. The other two children don't believe that he should be going through this and now there is a court battle between them for how is to become the medical proxy. My personal feeling though is that this is wrong. This is human torture. He does not want to live like this, yes he isn't competent but all he does is cry out for his death. As soon as you remove a restraint to check for range of motion and circulation he immediately begins trying to rip things out. I also feel that it is wrong to use both wrist restraints not allowing motion as well as using mitt restraints all at the same time. Shouldn't there be something a hospital can do? Shouldn't nurses stand up and not take this patient because no one likes caring for him? Nurses have the right to refuse a patient, so what happens if everyone refuses? What if doctors refuse to care for him and the order for restraints expires? Don't they have to be removed? I just don't understand how our health care system is okay letting things like this happen. Am I wrong to believe this and to feel this way? *sorry this was long, I just needed to let this out*

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That is because you do smell of hospital dear.

That is because you do smell of hospital dear

Sadly I know exactly what you feel like but from the partners stand point. My fiancee is a nurse as is able to sleep whenever she needs to but I am the one that can't ever sleep. She will fall asleep and be looking so comfortable and all I can do is clean or organize because being in the bedroom and watching her able to sleep is something I just can't stand most of the time. I feel for you

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I'm not really sure where it is that I should put this or even if I should put this on this website but I guess I'll give it a shot. I am a current college student with a very rare heart condition, but unfortunately in order to pursue my education I had to leave all my doctors and specialists in NY. I have no way of monitoring my condition while I am here and the first thing they asked was that I find a nurse or doctor that could take my blood pressure a couple times a week...and personally I prefer nurses because of what doctors have put me through. I understand this could be taken the wrong way, but I am looking for a nurse that would be willing to monitor my blood pressure so I can report it back to my doctors so they can have some sort of idea as to whats going on with my heart. If this post is against the ToS I understand and the admin can pull it Thanks for your time.

I have to agree with most of the responses here in that calling would be better and seeing what the managers say for this situation as I know this is nothing new for them. When it comes from a managerial position it does look bad to have to go through the hiring process only to have the newly hired applicant quit and thus making the process start all over.