Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one 85-year-old man already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.
On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
“ I don't know,” he said. “She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.”
A story from a nurse….
Hospital regulations require a wheelchair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one 85-year-old man already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.
On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
“ I don't know,” he said. “She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.”