Would you want to be a patient in your hospital?

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For those of you who work in a hospital; if you needed medical care, would you want to be admitted in your hospital?

If you were admitted to a different hospital, do you think that if you mentioned you were a nurse, would you get better care than the "civilian" patients-seeing as how you know what's going on, where the average patient doesn't?

Just curious!:p

Cryssi

Specializes in Med-Surg.

Yes. It's where my insurance is the cheapest anyway. But I would want to pick my nurses. :D

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I have been twice after both seizures which conveniently took place while I was working.:rolleyes:

But that was ER.

I chose to have my last child in another hospital simply because of the privacy offered at such an intimate time. I did notice that the nurses did treat me very nicely except they assumed, as others have stated, that since I was a nurse I didn't need much teaching. Well, I'd never had an emergency cesarean before . . . . ..

steph

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Yes I would. My son broke his arm a couple of years ago. Our ER trearted him like a little king. Not because he I worked there, but because he was so young and in so much pain. They had to transport him the Childrens, and the ER wasn't as nice. I'm sure it had a lot to do with the fact that at our hospital he was the only injured child and at children's he was one of many. After we got to the floor things were wonderful.

I guess I got a liitle of the subject:D But yes I would go to our hospital. I know what to expect and like Tweety said it's the cheapest with my insurance. I wouldn't work in a hospital if I didn't feel comfortable with the care.

Noney

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

yes and no.

equivocal enough? let me explain....

yes, I trust the care I would get there. THE NURSES are TOP NOTCH. I would trust them with my life. but......

no, I don't want people with whom I work caring for me at a low point in my life such as illness. Just bugs me.

Fortunately, I get my care at an Army facility, as I am insured under my husband's military employment. I like the care I get there and I like that NONE of them is a personal aquaintance or friend. It feels more "proper" this way to my thinking.:)

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Specializes in Med-Surg.
Originally posted by SmilingBluEyes

yes and no.

equivocal enough? let me explain....

yes, I trust the care I would get there. THE NURSES are TOP NOTCH. I would trust them with my life. but......

no, I don't want people with whom I work caring for me at a low point in my life such as illness. Just bugs me.

Fortunately, I get my care at an Army facility, as I am insured under my husband's military employment. I like the care I get there and I like that NONE of them is a personal aquaintance or friend. It feels more "proper" this way to my thinking.:)

I know what you mean. I have a nightmare, I'm in a car wreck and flighted to my hospital (as we are the trauma center for this area) and people I know standing all around me, while some puts a catheter in me, my RT friends (we have vents on my floor so I know those guys well) is drawing a gas, etc. There's no privacy during a trauma alert. But it's what they do and they do it well, still wouldn't seem "proper".

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Yeah, that's the main problem I had with being a patient in my own hospital: these people are my FRIENDS, and they're not supposed to see my hairy legs (I don't shave in the wintertime), or hear me pass gas in my sleep, or measure my kidney function:imbar

I remember the night I spent in the hospital with an asthma attack; at the time I was still a new RN, but I just could NOT let anyone take care of me. I was on IV antibiotics and Solu-Medrol, and I cleared my own pump, wrote my I's & O's on the bathroom door after dumping the "hat" in the toilet, and fetched my own ice water. My poor nurse, Mardi, was going crazy.....she'd yell, "Marla, get back in that bed, I'M supposed to take care of you!!" Well, now I realize I was being pretty silly, but it IS difficult to let go and just be a patient sometimes!

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my answer is not 'no' ... but H*LL NO !!! ESPECIALLY in the ER ... it's an absolute joke.... :eek:

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We have 2 small hospitals in my county;not much chance for privacy.After the renal insufficiency/failure started last July/Aug ,I was a frequent flier for about 3 months.I would put my hair up,not come in in my scrubs(why do some medical people do this?)as a pt,do anything i could to look like a normal sick person,not a nurse.never failed someone would recognize me.Oh you are a nurse?didn't you work upstairs?They made it real obvious to explain what meds/tests/ test results I was getting back..Check the arm band,etc.after the 4th time in the er in 3 weeks,triage would say Oh that nurse is back with the kidney problems as I was headed to a stretcher.at that time i wanted to be anything but a nurse in that hospital;just wanted to be anonymous. :)

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I dont work in a hospital but I definately dont want people to know I am a nurse. It happens when my son is the hosp and I am expected to do his care he rarely got checked on as I am a nurse and should know when to call for help. Then when I was in for my TAH/BSO they knew I was a nurse compliments of my gyn. I was rarely checked on after all I was a nurse and should have known if I needed help. I hated it I think I recieved less care dt the fact that I am a nurse. JMO from my experience.

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