Re: Commentary: Nurses' warning must prompt action
Yes, nurses are critical to our good health care and we need them and need to support them as I have been doing writing letters in support of their needs. And we need to listen to them.
As our frontline health-care providers they know what is needed to continue the excellent level of health care we as Canadians have come to expect. However given the lack of health-care knowledge of our political leaders I’m not very hopeful.
I have experienced excellent nursing care four times in my life and am very grateful to the nurses involved. Most recently a year ago I had an epileptic seizure and was taken by ambulance to Foothills emergency room.
I was pretty back to normal behaviour-wise and the busy emergency room doctor was about to send me home with no further exams. I told my nurse about being bucked off a horse 10 years prior and being kicked in the head and wondered if the scar tissue resulting could bring on the seizure.
She took my concerns to the emergency doctor on my behalf and all of a sudden I'm no longer being discharged but being subjected to brain C scan, MRI and ultrasounds.
Then referred to an epileptic doctor and as a result, I am on anti-epileptic meds for life. I owe all that to one really good and caring nurse. Anything I can do to help with continuing support of our nurses please let me know.
Darrel Florence,
Cremona
