Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged.
However, while working as a student nurse,
I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with
a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn't need my help to leave
the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel
him to the lift.
On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
'I don't know,' he said. 'She's still upstairs in the bathroom
changing out of her hospital gown.'
However, while working as a student nurse,
I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with
a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn't need my help to leave
the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel
him to the lift.
On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.
'I don't know,' he said. 'She's still upstairs in the bathroom
changing out of her hospital gown.'
