Do Some of Our Nurses Need Reorientation?

Have you ever reported at any healthcare facility and a nurse at post asked you, “why are you reporting at the health facility at this time”? I have had this experience at two different health facilities recently.

Is it that they are ignorant of their role/responsibilities or is just shared wickedness or the usual show-off? My answer to nurses in relation to such provoking question has always been, “why are you also at post at this time”? Case close. Or?

Haven listened to a section of the public, this attitude by some of our nurses towards patients could be contributing to patients’ delay in seeking healthcare services. A section of the public are made to believe that one cannot access OPD/hospital services at certain times during the day.

I am very sure most of my readers will relate very well with this worrying attitude of some of our hardworking nurses.

As for the Ghanaian healthcare provider and patient relation, is another topic to be discussed yet another day.

If some of these nurses want us to believe that hospitals do not provide healthcare services beyond a certain period of time, it will be prudent they put notices at their gates, communicating such information before patients get in and get questioned as if it they [patients] invited sicknesses upon themselves. And I’m not sure some of these nurses are suggesting that patients should begin to postpone their sicknesses.

Various Directors of healthcare services and healthcare facility managers/administrators should wake up and inject some of these nurses with good patient/client handling practices; and regularly remind them of their roles and responsibilities as nurses.

The healthcare provider’s warm reception contributes significantly to timely patient recovery.

Let’s treat our patients with the maximum care they deserve, because the hospital is not a tourist site that will necessarily attract the patient to pay a visit to.

Sometimes all that a patient needs is genuine care and compassion from a care provider, and he or she will be fine.

Sickness befalls us all, and at no particular appointed time.

Author: Gbolu Samson
Founder: PHAN Ghana
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