4 ways on how to be more persuasive if your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
Published: Tue, 10/08/13
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you're not a doctor or a nurse in Intensive Care!
In this week's blog I want to show you "4 ways on how to
be more persuasive if your loved one is critically ill in Intensive
Care"
I know how you feel if your loved one has just been admitted to
Intensive Care for critical illness. I know how vulnerable, out of
control and powerless you feel. I know the struggles, the pain, the
fear and the frustrations you are experiencing. I know how hard it
is watching your critically ill loved one suffering and have other
people run the show and making decisions without actually asking
you!
Your level of control, power and influence is at a low point
It seems like with your loved one being admitted to Intensive Care
for critical illness, your level of control, power and influence
has gone out of the door and other people might be making death and
life decisions without actually involving you in the decision
making process. After all it's your Family member that you
dearly love who's critically ill in Intensive Care. And how do
you know that the Intensive Care team is making the right decisions
anyway? How do you know that the Intensive Care team is presenting
your critically ill loved one's condition in the right light?
How do you know that the way the Intensive Care team is presenting
your critically ill loved one's condition is not influenced by
o The politics within the Intensive Care Unit
o The financial budget within the Intensive Care Unit
o The pressure on beds in Intensive Care, I.e. other admissions
awaiting admission to an already fully occupied Intensive Care Unit
o The pressure on other scarce resources such as nursing and
medical staff, i.e. lack of such
o A negative culture within a unit, i.e. where it's often too
hard and too difficult to deal with critically ill Patients who
have a poor prognosis, but would get treated differently if the
unit had a more positive culture (What the doctors and the nurses
behaviour in Intensive Care is telling you about the culture in a
unit
http://intensivecarehotline.com/what-the-doctors-and-the-nurses-behaviour-in-intensive-care-is-telling-you-about-the-culture-in-a-unit/
You are powerless, without control and without influence unless you
start learning the right things
After all, Intensive Care is a very scary environment and just
because you and your Family are scared and intimidated doesn't
mean that you are powerless and without control! But if you want to
have power.... continue reading by clicking on this link
http://intensivecarehotline.com/4-ways-persuasive-loved-one-critically-ill-intensive-care/
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