tonight, we beat up our ward

[hedy26]

Evening shift always hard to every staffs of our ward,by the poor medical system of our hospital, I work in the general surgical ward have to take care the medical patient who with renal failure and heart rate dropped also has much tubes in her body(perm-cath,Tr.,NG tube,Foley tube) and mutible pressure sores,when I saw her, this old lady came with her son,She's already unconscious only one eye can open to see me, but the eye become red,the most sadness is I can smell the odd from her swelling body with much rushes and the smell of her Foley tube ,in my career life I never seen this sadness situation before, even that old lady can't talk by the Tr. ,I still can understand from her red eye the only one can open telling me,stop torturing me and send me free to God,Please!

and I look around her two sons,just coldness eyes look at us to treat his mother,but actually we don't know how to make her comfortable, I cried in my mind. Continue.

[Surprised1, MSN, RN]

So very sad. What country are you in? Can people write a living will, or advanced directive?

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