A mini rant.
I’m pissed.
I know, what else is new.
When *our* patient, the patient that you are discharging and I am taking into my care, the patient who a month ago was a brilliant writer and has been struck down by a stroke she suffered from while being treated for cancer in YOUR hospital… The patient who can’t speak, but cries when she’s in pain…
Yeah, HER. The human fucking being in OUR care.
When that patient is only comfortable with the six pillows placed under strategic parts of her body needs to be transported by ambulance on a stretcher (they aren’t built for comfort, folks) to a hospice facility two hours away, and you decide to rip those pillows out from under her…
Don’t you dare wonder why I’m speaking up for her. Don’t you dare glare at me while I’m snatching those sacred pillows back from you.
Yeah, call my fucking supervisor.
Here’s hoping your Press Ganey scores reflect your care. As for myself, I’ll be the girl making minimum wage being the true advocate for her patient.
Or have you forgotten what being an advocate for your patient truly means?
I can live with what I did.
Comments
Bravo.
We need more like you, and we need to keep more of the “you”‘s we already have.
Thank you for reassuring me that some in healthcare still have the right frame of reference (and no, that’s not a blanket statement about any group or profession). I’m proud to call such a person a cohort!
Nick M
Terre Haute, IN
Hell yeah…
The biggest compliment is to be called “an unswerving patient advocate.”
Nice job Ep.
Now that’s what I call EMS 2.0! You’re not waiting around to do the right thing instead you’re doing what every respectable EMS personnel would do. EMS 2.0 – a group that doesn’t stop advocating the very best for each and every patient on a call and long before the call comes in
Kudos to you for sticking up for her!!! Way to go!!!!!
Mini.
But effective.
Nicely done, Epi.
Some people – the ones we deal with on the other end – can be a-holes, can’t they. Sounds like this one fits the description…
You go on with your bad little self…
Keep up the good work! You did the right thing!
Mini Rant. I think not, Girl! This should be front page news. All the god damn time.
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OMG, quick.. someone buy Epi a beer! No, really.. Quickly! She deserves one. She’s earned it. She’s just awesome with that post.
Epi, I just spent a 3 hour meeting on something I did that was very close to that two weeks ago. I’m not sorry, they won’t get anything close to me apoligizing for standing up for patient care. It’s our duty.
Hell yea.
And..
Hell yea.
Amen. My patient is why I work and the entire focus of my attention when I am on a call. I share in their pain and if I can reduce their pain, EVEN WITH A PILLOW (or 6), I will do what it takes to make them comfortable. Bully for you standing up for your patient and doing what’s right.