Treating patients with respect and understanding is essential to healthcare as a whole. Being a nurse includes numerous rounds, check-ups, and consultations. But, what do patients have to deal with while being at the hospital? Most commonly, they are encountered with loneliness, discomfort, and sometimes even fear. With vast majority of them being sick or severely injured, it is completely understandable. Along with taking good care of them medically, your job as a nurse is to do everything in your power to make your patients feel at ease. Sometimes it can be hard to think to do these things when you’re so busy taking care of their ailments, so here are a few tips and guidelines in order to make your patients feel more comfortable.



Be polite

Every hour, you see patients come and go. It’s a perfectly normal situation for you--You’ve seen and done this a thousand times, but many patients have not. Actually, for many of them, this is their first time in the hospital. For this and many oth…