Dying people being thrown out of hospice care.

[MuseRider]

33. I was an ICU nurse

and yes, we did have to learn to take care of dying or very critically ill patients without letting our emotions get in the way of the care we had to give but I never saw or felt that there was coldness to the families who were suffering. We were not cold to the patients either but you have to be able to function and being too connected makes that difficult. Still, the families were always treated with great care and compassion. No matter how busy we were we were always present to answer questions and show care and compassion.

I just felt like saying that, I know you did not really imply that they are cold but sometimes people take things differently than you mean.

It was a very hard job most of the time but we also were able to move a lot of patients along who healed and left and most never remembered their stay with us, thank goodness.