{"id":916,"date":"2010-09-08T03:57:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=916"},"modified":"2010-09-08T03:57:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T17:57:53","slug":"dont-let-nurses-intimidate-you-by-joanna-asalemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t let nurses intimidate you by Joanna Asalemo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when my father had his coronary bypass, the nurse incorrectly gave him headache tablets instead of the intended medication&#8230; when the nurse finally realised her mistake, she asked Papa, &#8220;Do you have a headache?&#8221; Papa said, &#8220;No&#8221; then the nurse laughingly said, &#8220;You will not get one.&#8221;  I was right there when that happened, and the nurse just laughed and didn\u2019t bother to apologise. What if it was something else that Papa shouldn&#8217;t take at all?<\/p>\n<p>I would not let this happen to me.  When I was admitted to the hospital just before I delivered my baby, the nurse was giving me high blood pills and I refused to take them. I said that my doctor didn\u2019t tell me that I have to take such pills.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse got agitated and insisted that I took it. I politely told her that she should first check with my doctor. If my doctor says it\u2019s ok then I would be happy to take the pills. <\/p>\n<p>The nurse was obviously challenged and thought that I am just a young girl who was questioning her and stopping her from doing her job.  She adamantly said that my doctor won\u2019t be around till later, so again she insisted but I did not let her intimidate me.<\/p>\n<p>Let this be a lesson to all that although medical professionals might have good intentions, they still are subject to human error&#8230;&#8230;and don\u2019t let them push you around!  Don\u2019t just agree with what they ask you to do, because a lot of them have been so experienced that they do not want to listen to patients and often intimidate you because they assume that they know better&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;not in my case. \u2013 ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when my father had his coronary bypass, the nurse incorrectly gave him headache tablets instead of the intended medication&#8230; when the nurse finally realised her mistake, she asked Papa, &#8220;Do you have a headache?&#8221; Papa said, &#8220;No&#8221; then the nurse laughingly said, &#8220;You will not get one.&#8221; I was right there when that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}