As Registered Nurses, you will have patients that are very frank with reference to their fears and anxieties over being

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As Registered Nurses, you will have patients that are very frank
with reference to their fears and anxieties over being
hospitalized. Then when their physician rounds, all is right
in their world. All your thinking is “thanks a lot Sparky”.
All you can do is not betray their trust and realize some
patients need to vent and talk through their frustrations. We
can also realize their fear and anxieties are valid. They are
going home on oxygen, the physician added three additional
medications, and they live alone. We know the Medical Social
Worker (MSW) is aware and will see this patient prior to discharge.
That does not stop us from printing out and having the
physician sign the Medical Baseline form from PG&E, telling
them that Walmart has the $4 prescription program that also gives a
$20 store credit per medication that is new and transferred in from
a different pharmacy, and the local PACE Program is a one-stop shop
for a referral to the local Meal-on Wheels that may or may not cost
them $10 a month for groceries. We do so much more than
medication administration, physical assessment, and wound care.
It is just like the commercial where all Superheroes don’t
wear a cape. Some wear a stethoscope. I’m lucky because
I come with a stethoscope.
What else are you coming with?