![]() Ryan will soon graduate as a nurse.Īnother PCA, working years to support his family, decides it's time to make a career move into nursing. He’s about the age of my grandsons and I really can't handle that, preferring the female PCAs who are no less enthusiastic in doing their jobs. His wide smile can't help but make patients smile back - a beatific smile. They smile, ask about our lives, our comfort and show genuine warmth and caring." Ryan," a very young handsome man works tirelessly as a nurse's assistant. The Personal Care Attendants (PCA) are surprisingly young with as many men as women. The nurses are exceptionally pleasant, insisting that we ring the buzzer if we need them - that is not usually the case. Maybe my "rate our performance" opinion letters were actually read. ![]() ![]() This is not my first time here, yet I note changes since my last visit. It's a Cardiac Care Center (CCU), so all of us are hooked up to monitors, which I find comforting. My bed is one of four in a well-lit room with large windows displaying the dull gray tones of a broad flat roof from the floor below. Hospitals are buzzing hives of contradictions. Mistakes and miracles occur almost on an equal basis patients, who should live, die and those who should have died live. ![]() Personality traits differ significantly among hospital patients, Physicians and caretakers, which can include: sympathy/aloofness, empathy/impatience, caring/apathy, patience and intolerance. ![]()
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