McGrath Nurses
i am so angry and sad regarding women that have had surgery and have no one after wards to help them, after my surgery I had a pamphlet that had a McGrath nurse I could contact which i have and they h...
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Thank you @arpie @wendy55 @Anne65. I live in the third largest urban area in NSW. The nurse works two days a week. My GP is booked up a month in advance and the receptionists are fierce gatekeepers. (Although I haven’t yet tried the cancer plea, which seems to work miracles in other cases).
I don't need psychology, I need information. My problem is not with specific questions, which obviously I would ask, but with what I don’t know about. An example: with my mastectomy, I knew I would have a drain. I knew nothing of drain bags. Fortunately my surgeon provides her patients with a box of goodies and useful items, and there was the drain bag. But isn’t that the sort of thing my nurse should have alerted me to?
@wendy55, what is a “referral based organisation”? I have clearly been referred, but do you mean I must initiate each contact? In the circumstances, that seems a very unsatisfactory state of affairs
I don't need psychology, I need information. My problem is not with specific questions, which obviously I would ask, but with what I don’t know about. An example: with my mastectomy, I knew I would have a drain. I knew nothing of drain bags. Fortunately my surgeon provides her patients with a box of goodies and useful items, and there was the drain bag. But isn’t that the sort of thing my nurse should have alerted me to?
@wendy55, what is a “referral based organisation”? I have clearly been referred, but do you mean I must initiate each contact? In the circumstances, that seems a very unsatisfactory state of affairs