by Paul Quinn | Oct 1, 2018 | Communication Skills, Healthcare, Workplace Etiquette
Anyone who has spent a few nights in a hospital knows how stressful the experience can be. In addition to physical pain or discomfort, nighttime interruptions by hospital staff and the steady beeping of bedside monitors can make sleeping difficult. Worries about one’s...
by Paul Quinn | Jun 21, 2018 | Communication Skills, Healthcare, Human Behavior
Photo by Elien Dumon on Unsplash My elderly father once discreetly—and rather desperately—asked a nurse to tell his visitor, a caring but high-strung chatterbox, that visiting hours were over (they weren’t). He just couldn’t bring himself to ask someone to leave who’d...
