Make up your own mind about your critically ill loved one's situation in ICU even if you're not a doctor or a nurse!
Published: Tue, 09/17/13
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and so that you can influence decision making, even if you're
not a
doctor or a nurse in Intensive Care!
In this week's blog I want to show you "Why you must make
up your
own mind about your critically ill loved one's situation in
Intensive Care even if you're not a doctor or a nurse!"
Can you really trust the Intensive Care team?
If your loved one has been admitted to Intensive Care and is
critically ill, you may at first feel very emotional with your
rational brain having gone out of the door. You may feel like
things are beyond your control, you may feel vulnerable and you
maybe struggling with the situation if your loved one is critically
ill in Intensive Care! After all other people are running the show
and you may feel like they are trying to keep you at arms length...
Your critically ill loved one's health and their life is left
in the hands of the Intensive Care team, whom you trust. But wait a
second, do you really trust them? Or asked differently, can you
really trust them?
The answer to that question is that you should always question and
also second guess the prognosis, the care and most of all the
motives of the Intensive Care staff. Why do I say this?
Why financial budgets and politics play a crucial role in the
positioning of the Intensive Care team
After more than 15 years of Intensive Care nursing experience, I
dare say that I have seen it all and I have seen how politics,
financial budgets, other admissions awaiting an ICU bed in a fully
occupied Intensive Care Unit and negative and limited mindsets play
a crucial role in how your critically ill loved one's prognosis
and situation maybe presented to you. Keep in mind that
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