Jury rules nurse didn't violate rights of woman barred from partner's room

seattletimes ^ | 04/21/10 | Jennifer Sullivan

[Mila]

“Why didn’t these women have each other on the list of people allowed to see them in the hospital?

From the article-

“Reed had legal documentation of their relationship that outlined her right to oversee her partner’s health care, according to Judith Lonnquist, Reed’s lawyer. Lonnquist said that Hulley never read the documents.”

The nurse testified that she barred the woman from the room not because of a the homosexual connection between the two, but because her presence was agitating the patient and because of that the patient’s condition was being negatively affected.

[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.

[goat granny]

What is really great about having your own chickens is that you get really great tasting eggs. Fresh from the coop, they taste much better than those bought at the store...I fed my chickens cracked corn and egg laying mash. Plus they are on their own, being let out in the morning...be sure to lock them up in the coop at night to keep the coons and stray cats from killing them...The chickens go into the coop on their own before the sun goes down and roost...Thats also where you keep their feed and water...Good luck, fresh eggs are delicious..

We started out with banty's and it took about 5 eggs to make up for 1 chicken egg..their eggs are small..:O)

[goat granny]

You are right on terminal patients, thats not the same as taking care of a non terminal patient...I, being a nurse was able to take both my parents into my home and they died there, not it a hospital..(mother died in 1977 and father in 1988....a generation ago, most people died at home...I also remember 2 uncles that were laid out at home and not a funeral parlor..Generations change.

But I bet you found as I did that visitors descending on a person in the hospital is not always the best and many visitors don't realize that. Its really not their fault and when explained to them in the hall most are thankful that I have explained to them why I requested to them what I did...and they have no problem with following rules once it is explained to them..

[brwnsuga]

We got our daughter, who is 17, has a subscription to Mother Earth News. We found some chicken coop plans that we liked in there. Hopefully, our dream of chickens will come true one day. (For some reason, my baby girl is into....old fashioned things. She taught herself to knit and crochet, she wants to learn how to quilt and hunt. She bugged my husband to help her start her own garden in her own corner of the back yard. She also wants to learn to cook over an open fire. She is smart, charming, beautiful...and slightly loopy. We love her though.)

[goat granny]

Chickens are easy, you'll love having your own eggs. But if you start off with baby chicks they won't lay eggs for several months. All of my kids and grand kids are slightly loopy here too..Thats the best way to be. They are the ones that don't follow the crowd, they think for themselves...You just have to remember to close up the coop at night, or some predator will get them...I let some of my old biddies sit eggs and hatch out their own babies...It is fun. The babies follow them around learning what to eat and what not to eat....

I also got into raising Ringneck Pheasants and Chinese Red golden Pheasants. But I had bought a table top incubator and got the eggs from a friend (that had a rooster). My grandkids loved to see the baby chicks moving inside the eggs when I would candle them...

Your daughter sounds like a sweet gal....lucky you...When we bought the farm (it was 100 years old) and already had barns and a coop so we were lucky, it also had an old ice house and milk house. Over the years it had been many things including a dairy farm... Have a great weekend. GG

[goat granny]

You are right if someone is terminal its entirely different. In cases like that family and even close friends are comfort to the patient...but its also not appropriate for the visitors to jam into the room all at once. Up in the units its far different rules than on the floor. As nurse's we have seen it all. I found that sometimes people just don't know how to act, or are not really comfortable in a hospital and appreciate a little guidance on behavior...

Like me you have also probably had visitors walk into an isolation room without proper hospital garb that is sitting outside the room...I have had patients in respiratory isolation and had visitors get mad when you tell them to gown and mask, even gloves for some...

But most people are thankful for the information a nurse tells them...GG