Topics About 'Nurse Patient Relationship'.

I work PRN at a hospice house. I was taking care of a patient that had been with us for 2 months and was very well known to the full-time staff, yet I had only taken care of her on 3 occasions. There had been several issues with the family due to cul...

My night started like every other night at work did. Clock in, look up patients and give out meds for my patient team of seven. I would also read telemetry strips, chart vital signs and do my assessments. But this night was anything but normal. Aroun...

This is a frustration many leaders experience: patient survey results that do not align with what patients say during rounds. The problem lies in the questions we ask during rounding and the information these questions gather. Many leaders ask patien...

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 ...

Over the years I have received a lot of gifts from patients and their families. Nurses are not really supposed to accept gifts, and I would never accept money of course, or anything valuable. But when you work with the elderly and the dying, you real...

Distractions abound on every nursing shift. Nurses are constantly pushed and pulled in every direction with numerous interruptions. Call lights, doctors' questions, new orders, phone calls, colleagues needing help, patient family members... the list ...

The phone rang! I mentally cursed as I was in the middle of a narcotic count with the pharmacy who had come to drop off the narcotics for about 50 patients in the LTC I worked in. "Excuse me!" I told John, the patient pharmacy driver who had come to ...

"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...

I got the call on the EMS radio around 5 am. This is the usual time we get calls from EMS responding to nursing homes- The nurses are rounding on their patients to give am meds, and they find their residents dead or in distress. An 87 yo female, febr...

So I got to thinking. What if the tables turned a bit. It may be the lack of sufficient coffee that has lead me to think about what would happen to nursing if part of the patient survey bru-ha-ha and patient satisfaction also included surveys sent to...

Nurses understand stress. Sometimes you can feel it in the air as you walk on to the unit. For nurse leaders, it may hit you like a ton of bricks as you open the door to a meeting room. Once the intensity of your workplace environment changes, commun...

The nurse-patient relationship carries great significance because it is the ultimate foundation upon which all nursing care is provided, regardless of the patient population, specialty, practice setting, or the circumstances that brought the patient ...

Doreen came from church. Before anyone says anything, I already know. It's 11:18 on a Sunday morning. Her dress is a striking blend of rich primary colors. Deep blue, bright yellow, candy apple red and dark leaf green jump off the stark black backgro...