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Post by megabeast37215 on May 14, 2017 20:10:44 GMT
I'm a nurse. I work with geriatrics. Is it as challenging as I imagine? Which part? Geriatrics? They're not too bad. Severe dementia cases can be troubling to communicate with, and some are combative. I feel for them.. their loss of dignity. It has to be very difficult to go from an independent, successful person, to someone who can't remember the simplest things like their children's names, and who pisses/shits all over themselves bc they can't hold it until they reach the bathroom.. if they can even stand up. They're a lot more like infants than adults in a lot of ways.. but most of them are good people, who just want someone to spend time with them. That's the part that gets me.. the families who won't come see them. They're basically just rotting away, waiting to die, with nothing to live for. It's awful. As their caretaker and advocate.. I do what I can to enrich their lives.. but there's only so much time in the day.. and I'm only one person. |
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Post by Kazu on May 14, 2017 21:08:23 GMT
Is it as challenging as I imagine? Which part? Geriatrics? They're not too bad. Severe dementia cases can be troubling to communicate with, and some are combative. I feel for them.. their loss of dignity. It has to be very difficult to go from an independent, successful person, to someone who can't remember the simplest things like their children's names, and who pisses/shits all over themselves bc they can't hold it until they reach the bathroom.. if they can even stand up. They're a lot more like infants than adults in a lot of ways.. but most of them are good people, who just want someone to spend time with them. That's the part that gets me.. the families who won't come see them. They're basically just rotting away, waiting to die, with nothing to live for. It's awful. As their caretaker and advocate.. I do what I can to enrich their lives.. but there's only so much time in the day.. and I'm only one person. I can understand how it is hard being a nurse since that requires a kind of mental strength and even more so if you work with dement (is that the correct form in english?) people. From the physical therapists I talk to I've learned that the most difficult is to keep the people going through therapy even if it is only easing their ailments. |
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Post by mega on May 15, 2017 12:19:46 GMT
Or a patient faking to be a nurse, we will never know! But hey it's you who's talking about adult daycare centers...in a thread about public games. Either patient or nurse save those puns for yourselve, if you were a nurse you wouldn't be that frivolous to compare really sick people with a forum poster. And if so, you would be one of worse and less empathic nurse out there. Anyway, your potshot attempt leaves you in a bad situation, either being a sick person in one of those centers you say, or a vomitive nurse, given how easily you compare a forum poster with your patients xD You can spin it however you like. Whatever makes you feel better. You don't see me getting all malicious, going for the throat. I'll even say 'you win' if it makes you feel better. I'm too old to get all worked up over some person on the internet who is very obviously trying to push my buttons.. and failing at it miserably might add. Have a good day. Obviously you "lost" at your attempt of trolling / diffamating with the useless and needless "adult daycare center" low-level insult, because of course, either you lack empathy and are the worse nurse ever, comparing people posting on a forum with your patients, or you are one of those who stay at those center you know so well. Next time think a little more before throwing those potshots and then hiding like an ostrich when you got a reasoned answer, because after all this it's you who seems to belong to that place you brought up in a videogame forum discussion. So as other said, " Suck it up, N7 princess!" |
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Post by Pounce de León on May 15, 2017 12:46:21 GMT
Which part? Geriatrics? They're not too bad. Severe dementia cases can be troubling to communicate with, and some are combative. I feel for them.. their loss of dignity. It has to be very difficult to go from an independent, successful person, to someone who can't remember the simplest things like their children's names, and who pisses/shits all over themselves bc they can't hold it until they reach the bathroom.. if they can even stand up. They're a lot more like infants than adults in a lot of ways.. but most of them are good people, who just want someone to spend time with them. That's the part that gets me.. the families who won't come see them. They're basically just rotting away, waiting to die, with nothing to live for. It's awful. As their caretaker and advocate.. I do what I can to enrich their lives.. but there's only so much time in the day.. and I'm only one person. I can understand how it is hard being a nurse since that requires a kind of mental strength and even more so if you work with dement (is that the correct form in english?) people. From the physical therapists I talk to I've learned that the most difficult is to keep the people going through therapy even if it is only easing their ailments. People are still different - even when they suffer dementia. One erupts in aggression - the other rock in their chair. Many times you can appeal to their long-term memory. I had a guy trying to flee the "asylum" when I met him, a lady in wheelchair and another one hooked to my arm and an assortment of shoppings in bags carrying as well. I tried to stop him, but he insisted "I have to go!" for some reason. So I asked him whether he had noticed the old ladies. Laden and burdened with the shoppings. Weary and tired of the long walk and such. He almost somersaulted to offer his help, like a good old gentleman and walked back with us. |
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Post by Kazu on May 15, 2017 13:29:46 GMT
I can understand how it is hard being a nurse since that requires a kind of mental strength and even more so if you work with dement (is that the correct form in english?) people. From the physical therapists I talk to I've learned that the most difficult is to keep the people going through therapy even if it is only easing their ailments. People are still different - even when they suffer dementia. One erupts in aggression - the other rock in their chair. Many times you can appeal to their long-term memory. I had a guy trying to flee the "asylum" when I met him, a lady in wheelchair and another one hooked to my arm and an assortment of shoppings in bags carrying as well. I tried to stop him, but he insisted "I have to go!" for some reason. So I asked him whether he had noticed the old ladies. Laden and burdened with the shoppings. Weary and tired of the long walk and such. He almost somersaulted to offer his help, like a good old gentleman and walked back with us. Good thing you got him to turn around with appealing to that. I only have one story about people with dementia, but it's not really a happy one. In short a family which couldnt afford a place in of those nursing homes had to deal with their grandmother being taken care of at their home. In short the mother went mental, the marriage broke down, the husband couldnt bear with it and neither could their kids. |
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Post by CrutchCricket on May 15, 2017 13:39:51 GMT
Thread has been warned several times to knock off the personal crap. Thread is now locked.
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