tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7841952704609665059.post3478309977258381186..comments2023-10-04T11:43:38.623+01:00Comments on Elaine Hanzak's Blog: Enjoying the platform again!Elaine Hanzakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425645973791394418noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7841952704609665059.post-31731139376035020872011-04-10T21:01:39.805+01:002011-04-10T21:01:39.805+01:00Thank you so much Victoria. I shall make more of a...Thank you so much Victoria. I shall make more of a point of admission in the 'main body' as you are right! Sometimes you do need a little time to be nursed and looked after. <br />Best wishes,<br />ElaineElaine Hanzakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425645973791394418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7841952704609665059.post-49343301011667122342011-04-10T19:26:31.590+01:002011-04-10T19:26:31.590+01:00Hi Elaine,
I just wanted to comment on your amazi...Hi Elaine,<br /><br />I just wanted to comment on your amazing presentation on Friday. I am a psychiatric nurse who attended the patient safety conference. To be honest I was in two minds about the whole thing. I love my job and a day away from work, (unless it's Annual Leave!) can be a bit of a bind, worrying about how my caseload is doing etc, catching up with visits, all for the sake of listening to various people talk about subjects that often don't wholly concern me. <br />Well what a shock it was to hear you! (Admittedly people making me cry are never that popular with me!!!), but you absolutely astounded me. From start to finish I was enthralled. The way you told your remarkable story, the bravery within, you left me speechless, everything else that day paled into insignificance. I would like to say a huge thank you for making the day such a pleasure.<br />I also noted your comments during the Q & A session - you made reference to upon hospital admission, you want somebody to take care of you, you don't want to make decisions, choices being too difficult to make at that point in time. <br />As a health care professional, I am sure we all get into the mind set of promoting independence and getting people to make their own choices (which is as it should be) however, I will think more about your comments regarding choices/decisions and when somebody is acutely unwell it's enough for them to even make a decision about whether to have sugar in their tea or not. <br />I will think more about this and ensure that I don't place any undue stress on people by encouraging them to participate in care planning etc too early on in their admission. So thank you for that I plan to feed this back to my colleagues that were unable to make the conference on Friday.<br /><br />Thankyou again Elaine, you are one of the most incredibly brave and inspirational women I have ever met.<br /><br />Keep up the good work.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Victoria.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com