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Clear Day
Dawn Gonzales
English 1301
Essay 1
One Nurses Experience of Being A Family Member
In the early years of my nursing career, I did not have the kind of patience and understanding with the families of my patients that I have now. Often, I would become irritated and impatient with the family members that asked the same questions about the patient during every visit. ... They should know how busy I am taking care of not only their loved one, but my other patients as well. ...
I began to experience what it is like to be that family member with all the questions while I waited in the emergency room for news of my son. ... Other close family members joined us as they received the news of what had happened. ... They made sure we knew they were there for us without being intrusive. ...
The nurses in the Intensive Care Unit were excellent. ... He thought I would understand the explanations better than he would, so I was the one who bombarded the nurses with the same questions each day. ... All the regular nurses would patiently endure my questions at each visit and answer them with gentle honesty. ...
One day on our first morning visit there was a nurse we had not met assigned to our son.
Approximate Word count = 1009
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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