spaghetti2520

I guess I'm a lucky patient. I've had some very wonderful nurses care for me in the hospital. Most come in my room and thank me for being so nice. They always say I love coming to your room. You never yell at me or demand ridiculous things. And one time my nurse did answer my phone. Not because I asked her too, but because I had just got settled into my chair and didn't have my phone on the table yet. She answered it for me and even asked if I wanted to talk to the person on the line. Treat your nurses well and they will treat you even better in return. And every time I get out of the hospital, I send them an Edible Arrangements gift basket. They love they get something besides candy :-) I know how hard it is to be a nurse. I have 3 close friends that are all nurses in different areas of care.

I'm not a nurse but I am a professional patient. Unfortunately, I have lots of health problems and spend time in the hospital at least once per year. These last 2 years have been particularly bad. I go to the same hospital every time. One nurse "Heather" has been there ever since I had my first surgery 15 years ago. I know she sees so many patients over the years and I hadn't seen her in about 5 years so of course she had no idea who I was. I gave her a quick recap of our history and she did in fact remember me. She said oh yea and then you had this done right? So this past year, I have had 3 surgeries so far and one more to go. I always request she be my nurse. One, she is awesome at her job, two, we do connect on a patient/nurse level and three I am so comfortable with her it makes the healing process a little easier for me. And I feel she takes extra special care of me. I probably wouldn't recognise her out of scrubs and she wouldn't recognize me in anything but a hospital gown. But after my stay, I always send a huge edible arrangements basket to the whole ward that took care of me during my stay. When I leave, several of the nurses and aides at the nursing station come to my room and give me hugs goodbye. I think they all show a great level of care. I know they don't do that for all their patients. So is it weird for nurses to have a patient request them?