Recent Posts Tagged With 'patients'

• Taking some responsibility for our health issues

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 18:40 in resources, obesity, ownership, frustrating, patients, self inflicted, emergency and triage, emergency presentations

  credit: D Sharon Pruitt As any emergency nurse will tell you, sometimes it’s really difficult not to be judgmental of emergency presentations, particularly if they are self inflicted. For example, some of the more infuriating presentations incl...

• Hospital staff fed up with abuse

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 07:05 in abuse, violent, patients, aggressive, nurses, abusive, nurse abuse

  credit: darkpatator   You really just have to shake your head in amazement at the amount of people who yell and carry on in emergency departments. It goes without saying that a huge number of these people are affected by alcohol, but there are ...

• When patients aren’t funny

  Posted on Monday October 20th, 2008 at 08:27 in funny, humor, humour, patient, witty, hospital, patients, general nursing stuff

  credit: dotbenjamin There are always patients who try and have a funny comeback for every question that you ask them. Often after delivering the supposed ‘witty and amusing retort’, they look at you as if they were the first person ever t...