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Sunday, September 01, 2013 ( 9:45 AM ) shut up christine i am not a phone person i purposely did not have voicemail on my cellphone from july 2010 til feb of 2013 i figured if people really wanted to reach me they would probably call again although i ignore calls a lot. if i recognize your number i may press the silence button it's not you, it's me. i just don't feel like talking 90% of the time :) but due to the nature of my job, i'm always on the phone i get a lot of calls from patients i spent a few days teaching a patient's nephew how to administer an IV medication via PICC line to his aunt so that he would know how to do it when i wasn't there the first time he gave the med by himself i told him to call me to let me know how it went he called late that night and told me she had a weird reaction and they had to take her to the ER and she died he was joking but i almost had a damn heart attack one of my patients is a baby with respiratory problems the last time i spoke to her mother on the phone, mom tearfully asked me if she could call me sometimes she said she doesn't have any one else to talk to i was scheduled to do an easy discharge visit for an elderly man, his physical condition had improved and recommendation was that he no longer needed home health services standard question i always ask: in the last 2 weeks have you felt down, depressed, or hopeless? after some talking, it came out that he had no money and no food, couldn't afford to refill meds, he suspected he would be evicted from his home next month, and he had about 1 serving of rice left in his pantry. i made a frantic crap ton of calls that day he phoned me a few days later to say thanks i discharged one patient from my care about 2 months ago, he was also readmitted back to the hospital he still called me regularly his leg is really bad, he might lose it i've had problems up the wazoo with his primary care doctor and it took me about 2.5 weeks calling his doctor almost every day to fight for orders doctor hung up on me once and even denied that this man was his patient a couple times after lots of arm twisting we eventually got the order and when i visited him again to resume care the look on his face was just........i almost cried. this. this is why i'm a nurse #
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