Monday, August 4, 2008

The ATV story gets better.
So as you may or may not know I work up at the hospital, I have a s story that ties well into this class about something that happened to me up there this weekend. The names of people have been changed so I do not loose my job. We had a patient come in on Saturday when I was working named Jon. Jon is an elderly gentleman who has pancreatic cancer, and because of this has dementia. He was brought in because he was found driving his car through a park, I’m sorry to say I do not know which park it was. Well Jon knew he was at the hospital, but did not think he needed to be there, so he decided it was time to leave. The hospital has a legal responsibility to protect people, and if a person is not in a proper state of mind then we are responsible to keep the person there. So we knew we needed to keep him in the hospital long enough to treat the problems he had and find an assisted living option. The nurses asked me to try and stall Jon from leaving wail they grabbed a shot of something that would calm him down. So I went into his room when he was changing and stared to talk to him. I decide to give prof Sexson’s story idea a try to see if I could get him to slow down wail I waited for the nurses. So I told him the story about the ATV crash. I made sure to put in all the details I could think of to keep him around. He was immured by the story. He did not relies the nurses were coming into the room and gave him a shot. Before he knew it he was back in bed.