[goat granny]

You are 100% right. Our duty is to the patient not pussy footing around obnoxious family members and friends...I politly asked many people to leave and come in one at a time not 10 at a time to talk to a patient that wasn't up to that many visitors....Only had one or two really put up a stick but the head nurse put them in their place pretty quick...10 Years of hospital work was quite enought for me..retired to be a goat herder...Lots of burn out in nursing if one really cares about their patients...

Some doctors can be a pain in the arse also..some are great..You lose real quick automatic respect for them and that to know the good ones from the jackass's..

[freebirth]

Pretty clear that, whatever mistakes this nurse may have made, this was not about a 71yo woman having a female significant other, as if “keeping them apart” is going to change their relationship on her deathbed.

That said, and granted we don’t have all the details - if I’m at death’s door and I want to talk to someone important to me I don’t want the nurse to make that impossible in the name of patient safety or to prolong my life by a few more minutes. There are few things more tragic than how we isolate the dying from their friends and families.

[brwnsuga]

I hope I don’t burn out too early Goat Granny since I am in the beginning of my career but if I do I hope I can count on you for advice about raising my own goats....but really I want my own chickens.