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Critical atmosphere

Too often parents don’t visit their burn-injured child in hospital. Parents felt useless and helpless in the presence of specialist skills. Parents are acutely sensitive to what sometimes seemed to them a critical atmosphere and some failed to return to visit the child because of this.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

Most mothers experience great anxiety and guilt and often the conflict centers around frustration at losing immediate responsibility for their child. This is shown by repeated requests to take home a severely burned child, by a mother who, at the same time, feels the accident is already evidence of her inability to be responsible and knows that in reality she could not nurse the child at home.



Going to any burns unit can be a great strain for most mothers, even if their own child is not badly burned. Mothers describe nightmares that they have and some worry about other burned children that they have seen in the ward. One mother is even described as feeling so ill after two visits to the unit that she could not return, although her own son’s burn was a slight one.

 

It is an added strain to see other children suffering and crying in pain. Added to this, are her ever-present guilt feelings to work through.
By Bronwen Jones and Charissa Bloomberg
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Page Created By: Gary (admin) 08 July 2004 4:54pm
Page Last Modified: 23 July 2004 9:27am

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