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roguetrick@kbin.social 10 months agoOh, it happens plenty. Let's just say the nursing home nurses have it down to a science to speed folks up with all the patients they're administering medication to. Usually part of our report to other nurses on shift change, and what strategies we're using. Some folks want to talk, some folks are trying to exercise the very little control they have in a situation where their life has completely spiraled out.
vestmoria@linux.community 10 months ago
roguetrick@kbin.social 10 months ago
For a 40 year old, I have a come to jesus moment. I say you need this for your a. fib, or whatever, or you're gonna throw a clot and have a stroke. If you don't want to take it, that's fine, but that's a choice you're gonna be making. I tell them that we administer medications at set times to maintain effective prophylaxis. I'll jot a quick note, and if I have the time call the whoever ordered it and inform them of the refusal. If they want to place an ORDER for me to leave medication by the bedside, I will. But that's what it would take for me not write a refusal to take medication on the time it's ordered as anything but a refusal.