Re: Brain/nurses>bill

[Guest guest]

Oh yes Bill, many nurses and doctors could use a little more knowledge

about dealing with the human side of life. It amazes me. My daughter

is one of them. She thinks everyone is dumb but her. She has rethought

the doctor issue though too. She does know some are super and some only

think they are, much like the rest of us.

I had lots of nurses in my classes as they had to go through me to go on

and many had little knowledge of dealing with people and feelings. They

knew how to deal with the facts and that's all. There comes a time when

we all have to be able to put ourselves into another person's shoes and

see things from another perspective. At the same time I know it's hard

to deal with feelings every day. One has to stay somewhat detached or

suffer daily from dealing with too much. It's a balancing act.

I learned in the hospital there are some real b.......... working there

and of course a few of those docs were a real piece of work. You are so

right about asking questions with the reasoning of wanting to learn

something. Most docs are more than willing to point out how and why.

The younger ones much more so now than the older ones because they have

been taught how to get along with people a little better.

Another piece of information I learned while working in the hospital

with patients was that a little extra TLC will get you a long way with

most of them. I had many who would sit and wait for me to get to them

instead of go through the shorter line of admissions and registrations

because they wanted to work with me instead of someone else. They knew

I would give them anything and everything I could and bend over

backwards to make sure they had forms and copies of everything they

needed and they also knew I made many a trip to their rooms after shift

to make sure they had signed everything and had extra copies for their

files at home. They also knew if something wasn't there, I had been

known to make a trip to their homes or make phone calls to pick things

up for them.

When I left the hospital last year, I discovered there had been a major

uproar with the administration over why I was no longer there at the

front desk and they still get questions about why I'm not there. I

guess I must have been doing something right.

Stay warm

Sally