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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a veteran ICU nurse.

Then you all really, really don't want to know what we say about you family members of the critically ill -- out of earshot.

Their mistake was blabbering in a showy public way.  
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How trashy. Hope you're proud. [/quote]

I'm neither trashy nor proud.  A significant minority of all family members of adult ICU patients are pretty awful people. You know who IS proud? Them.  They are out and proud with their disrespect, their combativeness, their defiance, their sheer stupidity, their selfishness and so on.

Sounds like you and others would be surprised at how little these "family" members care about intubated, sedated Grandma terminally lying there in the bed.  How they eat her food tray (free food!) because she's, you know, intubated. They interrupt the social worker to make sure they'll keep getting Grandma's disability checks that they divert to their own use in another state. They smoke weed in the bathroom. Sometimes they'll smuggle street drugs in FOR the patient.

Do you really think it makes us trashy to commiserate about the above privately in the bathroom? Ok.  [/quote]

I believe you. As an educator, I observe and hear plenty, too. Nonetheless, I would not share or laugh about it on public media.[/quote]

PP here.  Maybe I shouldn't have said anything even anonymously on DCUM. I love what I do on some level and I'm really, really good at it.  I go to great lengths to advocate for my (silent, sedated) patients and I will stay late to talk with any and all civil, baseline respectful family members.

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PP here. We have 3 nurses in our family, and I have the highest respect for what most nurses do![/quote]

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