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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
The rules about what nurses can and cannot do, are different in the US.
If a patient wants to have their hair washed, and expresses that desire here in the Uk the nurse would do it without blinking an eye(well, she would if she had the time)...in the US, if it isn't written up by a doctor in the nursing notes/care plan then if the nurse does it. she can personally be litigated against....now if you want to see all your assets earned over a lifetime go down the pan in an instant...then litigation is the way to go.
Gynn, you have made assumptions based on what the media story tells us....which may, or may not be the whole story.
It is true that there are some people in caring professions, who do it for one reason, and one reason only.....money....but not everyone should be lumped into this category.
That aside, you had no reason to defame the character of the nurse in question without even knowing the full facts....it would have been better had you left out the comment about her.
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Gynn is very good at jumping the gun Margaret, but like you say, things are a lot different over here and without the full story its hard to make a judgement, howerer I have actually been in a bed next to an elderly patient with a DNR notice on the file, but it wasn't effected while he was an inpatient, sadly his obit was in the Obs around 3 weeks later