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I have a friend who is also an RN, she has never worked in a hospital and doesn't know anything about floor nursing. Her husband had an emergent colon resection and in the process the doctor saw that he had mets in the liver and then through a CT scan found that he had lung cancer. He's been in the hospital for 19 days now and she is freaking out because he's on TPN (says he's wasting away without food, that they are starving him) he developed an ileus, freaking about his WBC (obviously low because he's on chemo) thinks he has leukemia too and just not telling her, freaking because she read in his chart that his prostate is enlarged yet RT is giving him IPPB treatments when she read on the net it should be contraindicated.
She says she's yelling at the doctors and nurses and telling them "I'm an RN and I know what you should be doing and you should do what I tell you". They have offered to transfer him (I'd bet they'd do it in a NY minute!)
How do I kindly tell her she needs to shut the heck up? I told her when my Dad had a CABG I didn't even tell the surgeon or any of the nurses that I was an RN. What would the reason be? I expect they'd treat my Dad the same way whether they knew or not so I kept my mouth shut.
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She says she's yelling at the doctors and nurses and telling them "I'm an RN and I know what you should be doing and you should do what I tell you". They have offered to transfer him (I'd bet they'd do it in a NY minute!)
How do I kindly tell her she needs to shut the heck up? I told her when my Dad had a CABG I didn't even tell the surgeon or any of the nurses that I was an RN. What would the reason be? I expect they'd treat my Dad the same way whether they knew or not so I kept my mouth shut.
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