Topics About 'Compassion'.
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One day, as I walked in to my workplace after my long leave, I noticed a new patient in my ward. Actually, she is not new to the hospital, this lady has been staying in another unit for nearly a month due to non healing wound. I was deployed to that ...
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I can strip my clothes off at the drop of a hat, not that anyone is very excited to see me do it. Patients are outsiders in the circus ring of activity called healthcare, often clueless about what is wrong with them and what we are doing about it. We...
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Many of us learn valuable lessons from our patients. I was fortunate to learn one very early in my career that has stayed with me for 35 years. I have long ago forgotten her name, but her face and her circumstances are embedded in my brain and have d...
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In the past ten years of nursing, I never cried for a patient. It's not that I am cold or unfeeling. I do often get comments from patients how "nice" or "gentle" I am. While I do care greatly, I just don't get overcome with emotions at work. But a fe...
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Lessons in dying........... Two people I knew died this week. Two souls very different from each other. I knew one a long time ago and honestly did not have much of a relationship with him, like some of my other peers from the College of Marin Drama ...
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I thought I would share this touching story with you. I work on a Palliative/Oncology/General Medicine floor and work mostly nights. We mainly have geriatric patients, but we do have some younger children that are on our floor as well. There is this ...
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One can forever discuss the unmistakable magnificence of mountains or sunsets, or millions of other unforgettable miraculous occurrences. So many moments we take for granted, assuming other such moments will follow with scarcely a thought as to how f...
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My patient had been ejected from his car after hitting black ice. His prognosis for any recovery was a hairs-breath above zero. We knew he would never again walk this earth. The family was large and streamed in and out of the room. All were polite an...
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I almost declined because there were plenty of families available, and I didn't know if it was really my place until his wife told me that he had commented: "have Jeff carry me to my grave, I know he won't drop me." I provided care for him twice a da...
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My story as a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Warrior starts long before I ever considered nursing in the cardiothoracic operating room to be 'my calling'. I was 5 when my pediatrician noticed an irregularity during a routine physical and referred me t...
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I am writing because I wanted to tell you that I am sorry. I know that you didn't ask for that. You just went in for a routine procedure that was supposed to change your life. It did change your life-just not in the way that you planned, I know. You ...
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Nurses are the most visible care providers in a hospital. They are usually the first caregiver a patient sees upon admission, the caregiver patients encounter most during their hospital stay, and the last caregiver a patient sees at discharge. Nurses...
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In the early 90's I was working as a travel nurse in a small town in Wyoming in a 75-bed hospital that was just embarking on the world of computerized charting. I was frustrated as I was used to charting long-hand on paper...hmmmmm, those were the da...
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Ding Dong Ditch and KindnessDing dong ditch. For many those three words bring on a negative connotation, a feeling of frustration, and the thought of annoying children. Don't be so quick to judge. Since I was a small child, random acts of kindness ha...
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com·pas·sion fa·tigue (noun): indifference to charitable appeals on behalf of those who are suffering, experienced as a result of the frequency or number of such appeals. Most of us who work in healthcare or deal with mental health or substance ab...
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This is an interesting debate. One that can have multiple pros and cons. In essence, can one be a nurse and view it as just another day, a job, a paycheck, a means to an alternate end? Can we care for patients without really caring about them? There ...
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I became a nurse in my 50's. I stumbled a bit on my own after passing the NCLEX, unsure of what I wanted to do. A short summation of that time period is that I ended up totally by accident working at a LTC/rehab facility. On my first day there, I was...
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My number one tip for med/surg nurses is to connect with your patient, make eye contact and listen to what they have to say. They are someones mother,father, sister, brother, son, daughter etc. Wouldn't you want your family member treated that way ? ...
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When I heard the song "Last Time for Everything" by Brad Paisley on the radio, it literally brought me to tears because I clearly remember the last time that I spoke to my Dad on the morning that he passed away; I told him that I loved him, and he re...
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The sky was a clear and bright blue as I turned the wheel of my truck onto the small dirt road. The trees were not yet turning from green to gold but the air held a smell of changing seasons. As I pulled through the circular drive a little lady with ...
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The three siblings stood woodenly to the side in the ICU room, trying to stay out of the way while they waited for the doctor to make her early morning rounds, and fighting the tears that kept creeping into their eyes making it so that they couldn't ...
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"Annie, I need your help!" My usually unflappable ED charge nurse Nilda look frazzled "What's going on?" "I just spend 20 minutes with that guy in room 14, Mr. Uptown. His heart rate is 186; he's dizzy and refusing treatment. He wants to go home." "O...
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I received this art egg after Sr. Mary* passed away. She was a Nun; a very lovely, full of life Nun. She lived life with zest. She had a smile that you knew she was up to something. She saw my transition from new c.n.a. to graduated LPN. I have now b...
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February 8, 2007. This is the first time I saw him. At a first glance, there seemed to be nothing significant nor stunning in him, but still he melted my heart away by his innocent stares. There he was, just staring at me in his most vulnerable state...
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I recently moved to my dream location, one with layers of mountains, breathtaking sunrises, and gorgeous lakes and rivers. It is the perfect lifestyle for me and my family. I left a hospital that I had worked in for 23 years. I left best friends and ...
