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| Why I won't stay in a hospital |
| 11.12.04 (8:58 am) [edit] |
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I was asked why I was so resistant to staying overnight in the hospital. Here are a few reasons why: After my breast reduction, I was hooked up to IVs, in a private room. I had sent my mother home to rest. I had rung the nurses' station several times requesting some ginger ale or sprite because I was still feeling very nauseated. I thought six hours was more than enough of a reasonable time to get a drink. I punch the nurses' station again and ask what the deal was. The reply? "I think there's a coke machine on the 3rd floor. I don't think it takes dollar bills." Apparently, this nurse expected me to get out of my bed, with IV, to have change on my body and go trudging down looking for a vending machine. My IV had gotten clogged, so he took it out and said he'd put a new one in. FIVE HOURS LATER, a new nurse comes on board. My mother had been raising hell because I wasn't getting pain medication, hydration or antibiotics. Turns out this guy admitted to her that he 'didn't feel comfortable inserting IVs'. (I *hope* that he was a nursing assistant.) Plus, they tried to give me coedeine three times - which I am deathly allergic to. They argued with me that I 'had' to take it because my dr. ordered it. It was ALL over my chart about my allergies. After my hernia surgery last year, they hooked me up to a machine to 'suck' fluid out of my drains. I watched the nurse trying to hook it up, but I got the feeling that she didn't know what she was doing. My mother intervened and suggested that perhaps she get some additional assistance. Nurse got sassy and said she was the nurse. So, the machine is finally sucking away. Mom runs home to feed cats. In the interim, I start to feel 'wet' under my body. I move the covers back to see I am in a pool of blood. I call the nurses - not sure if I'm bleeding to death or what. TWENTY minutes later - a nurse shows up. Turns out they didn't hook up the suction machine correctly. They had to change the sheets with me in the bed. (NOT a pleasant experience) So, those are a few of the reasons why I don't do overnight in a hospital. I know there are a lot of really great nurses - and they are all overworked and understaffed - but I seem to have a knack for ending up with the worst of the worst. |
posted by: chicalookate (reply)
post date: 11.12.04 (7:43 am)
That would make me want to leave as soon as possible too....
posted by: bisousdeanges (reply)
post date: 11.12.04 (9:41 am)
wow, thats awful!!
posted by: baileydog (reply)
post date: 11.12.04 (10:19 am)
and i thought my experience in icu was bad.
posted by: Mimi (reply)
post date: 11.12.04 (11:38 am)
i support your choice! i stay with my loved ones until they are released to come home! hospitals and doctors are BAD.BAD>BAD!xoxox
posted by: NurseNancy (reply)
post date: 11.12.04 (11:55 am)
I pride myself on being a better than "the average" nurse. Which is so frustrating when I hear the horror stories out there. When I had cancer, I was subjected to many horrible Nurse Ratcheds' and to a few angels, but they were the minority....I vowed to always be the kind of nurse that made me feel better when I was sick and not to put my being rushed, stressed, overworked etc. onto the patient. It's not their fault, and they don't need to know about my work problems. I don't know how to fix attitudes. It's one of the hardest things that I deal with on employee evaluations. Some of my nurses are wonderful, but some are just so bitter, militant and unhelpful.
posted by: ScubaDiva (reply)
post date: 11.12.04 (12:03 pm)
Reply to: NurseNancy
The nurses in my dr's office are great - they were resourceful in using the CapriSun drinks to cool me down.
The ones in the hospital were just scary. I know there are good nurses out there. (And the second time I had surgery at the hospital - I brought my own ginger ale - lol!~)
posted by: ScubaDiva (reply)
post date: 11.12.04 (12:04 pm)
Reply to: chicalookate
When you have your surgery, just make sure you have someone there looking out for you.
And I'll give you lotsa helpful hints... :)
posted by: SheSpecies (reply)
post date: 11.12.04 (12:34 pm)
OMFG...that's so f'ed up.
posted by: Sybil (reply)
post date: 11.12.04 (4:01 pm)
Not to mention the rampant epidemic of MRSA that is so prevalent in just about every hospital these days.
It's SO prevalent, that now there's VRSA, which is the evil mutated Vancomycin resistant strain of the infection.
It's no lie when they say, hospitals make you sicker than you were when you went into one.
I'm with you. No overnights in a hospital if AT ALL possible.
posted by: ScubaDiva (reply)
post date: 11.13.04 (2:51 am)
Reply to: Sybil
Yeppers.
posted by: lynne (reply)
post date: 11.13.04 (5:13 am)
Ugh. I have never spent a night in a hospital since I was born and I now I realize just how lucky I have been.
posted by: 14u2nv (reply)
post date: 11.15.04 (6:34 am)
Wow you need to report that stuff to the state. I have never been in a hospital that treated their patients in that manner or that unprofessionally, but being a former hospital employee I can tell you that for the good of all who enter the doors of the hospital that treated you so terribly..REPORT IT..Don't let it slide..Someones life may depend on it (even yours)
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