My wife is a nurse that works for a church under an umbrella program sponsored by our local hospital. Her duties aren’t bedpans or even providing nursing services: it is mostly advisory. She does health checks, immunizations, advises people on access to care and also counsels them with things like “make sure you ask your doctor this” or “Translated into English, this is what your doctor said.”
I’ve heard the phone calls she gets and her responses range from “take two aspirin and call me in the morning” to “Hang up. Dial 911 and I will meet you in the emergency room.”
People send her pictures of body parts all the time. “Does this toe look broken to you?” or “This is the rash on my son’s rear end. Should I see a doctor?” A little bit unsettling when the son isn’t an infant.
My wife is a nurse that works for a church under an umbrella program sponsored by our local hospital. Her duties aren’t bedpans or even providing nursing services: it is mostly advisory. She does health checks, immunizations, advises people on access to care and also counsels them with things like “make sure you ask your doctor this” or “Translated into English, this is what your doctor said.”
I’ve heard the phone calls she gets and her responses range from “take two aspirin and call me in the morning” to “Hang up. Dial 911 and I will meet you in the emergency room.”
People send her pictures of body parts all the time. “Does this toe look broken to you?” or “This is the rash on my son’s rear end. Should I see a doctor?” A little bit unsettling when the son isn’t an infant.