Behind the Call Button - A Patient In Distress And A Nurse Who Answered
- Imran Siddiqui
- Apr 6, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: May 20, 2024
The initial feeling of helplessness and the eventual glimmer of hope. Nursing Home Aide Fights for Forgotten Patient's Dignity.
The InDignity - Trapped in Shame, Saved by Dawn with Grace.
A self narrated ordeal of an older woman stuck within the walls of a room in a skilled nursing facility, as she recovers after a stroke,. She calls for help, asking a nurse or nurse aide to assist her. No one answered her earlier calls, all she wanted was to go to the bathroom, and not do as what they wanted, to just do it on the bedpan. So yet again, no one was coming, no one came, despite her calls for help all night.
Until...
