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re: What is the weirdest thing you've ever seen at your job?
Posted on 12/1/15 at 11:32 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 12/1/15 at 11:32 am to Darth_Vader
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What? They left her there alone?!? WTF?
We don't allow younger siblings/relatives/friends to visit during certain times of the year(flu season) and we never let siblings under 18 stay the night(liability issues for the hospital). For some of these parents...they have no one else to watch their other children at night so they are not able to stay with the child in the hospital overnight. So it's not like they were just abandoning the child or anything...it was likely a situation similar to what I just explained(again...I can't remember all the details as it was over a year ago).
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Posted on 12/1/15 at 12:08 pm to lsunurse
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For some of these parents...they have no one else to watch their other children at night so they are not able to stay with the child in the hospital overnight.
Our older son had a number of hospitalizations, some at Children's Hospital and some at Tulane. Saw lots of this and felt really bad for some of the kids.
One adolescent was often hospitalized for weeks at a time with complications from spina bifida. We shared a room for a week or so. He was sweet and lonely, but there's no way his parents could be with him. I ordered a pizza one night and shared it with him. He told me no one (meaning other patient families) had ever even spoken to him, much less asked if he wanted something (I'd occasionally get him a soft drink when I went down to the cafeteria). Makes you think.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 12:46 pm to lsunurse
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We don't allow younger siblings/relatives/friends to visit during certain times of the year(flu season) and we never let siblings under 18 stay the night(liability issues for the hospital). For some of these parents...they have no one else to watch their other children at night so they are not able to stay with the child in the hospital overnight. So it's not like they were just abandoning the child or anything...it was likely a situation similar to what I just explained(again...I can't remember all the details as it was over a year ago).
One parent go home with the other kid(s) while the other stays at the hospital with their sick child. That's how we did it.
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