i am burning mad!!i was listening to a local radio am talk show that broadcasts from milwaukee today.the host was discussing a local story about chronically ill children in the public school system and do not resusitate orders. he stated that teachers and/or nurses at the scene were wrong to obey the order.he said that nurses or medical people who obeyed such orders were uncaring and morally wrong-even in the clinical setting of hospital or nursing home. he went so far as to call me and several other nurses who called in part of the"kevorkian fan club"!!!. he said it scared and disturbed him greatly that we as caregivers would not go against such orders.the emt and several nurses tried to explain to him how devastating it is to a already frail body to do a full code.he also blamed parents of such children as just wanting to rid themselves of a burden.
i think he needs to hear from nurses all over the country and know he is dead wrong.the talk show host's name is kevin fisher,(who was sitting in for jay weber) the name of the program is news talk wisn-am.
It IS too bad that the podcast seems to be unable to be accessed. It would have shed some light on what really was said by whom.The nurses and EMTs who called in to the show WERE professional and tried very hard to remain so, EVEN after he kept calling them Kevorkian Fan Club members.To assume that HE reacted to the nurses is wrong.
Many nurses DID write focused and credible letters to the radio station. I dont feel my responses to him are continuing to harm the nursing professions reputation. I do agree with you that it is beating a dead horse to continue to post on his blog. I have contacted others in the Milwaukee area who have shown interest in following up on this matter.
I posted my own opinion anyway, in the hope that maybe some readers of his blog might gain an understanding why a parent might choose to make their child a DNR. ( Of course after I posted, I realized I had made some errors in spelling etc., which I thought was funny since he had made the comment that some nurses should use spell check!
I posted my own opinion anyway, in the hope that maybe some readers of his blog might gain an understanding why a parent might choose to make their child a DNR. ( Of course after I posted, I realized I had made some errors in spelling etc., which I thought was funny since he had made the comment that some nurses should use spell check!
I read your post, it was wonderful. Don't worry about the spelling errors ,its the message that counts.He seems to have capitulated a bit, oh well this horse is dead, no use beating it any longer. He is on a weekly PBS show on Friday evenings at 6 pm, he posted that the discussion will include the morning after pill and he suggests that doctors and pharmacists should be allowed to without it for moral purposes. Hopefully there is no call in portion to that show
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It IS too bad that the podcast seems to be unable to be accessed. It would have shed some light on what really was said by whom.The nurses and EMTs who called in to the show WERE professional and tried very hard to remain so, EVEN after he kept calling them Kevorkian Fan Club members.To assume that HE reacted to the nurses is wrong.
Many nurses DID write focused and credible letters to the radio station. I dont feel my responses to him are continuing to harm the nursing professions reputation. I do agree with you that it is beating a dead horse to continue to post on his blog. I have contacted others in the Milwaukee area who have shown interest in following up on this matter.