Published by Sean on 28 Mar 2007 at 04:11 pm
Interesting Article!
byBETHANN SIVITER
Daily Mail
27 Mar 2007
NEVER had I been so frightened. After two weeks of persistent chest pain, I suddenly found myself lying in a hospital bed at night feeling very, very sick. My pain had become intense and inescapable, cutting through to my back and intensifying every… read more…
Steve on 29 Mar 2007 at 6:10 am #
This reminds me of my time in our trauma 1 hospital. Five years ago; I crashed on my motorcycle. Actually, the 81 year old driver didn’t stop at the stop sign and I hit him broadside.
The care I received in the trauma ICU was stellar; the care on the meidcal floor was atrocious. BUT, being a nurse myself; I could see the reason…NOT ENOUGH NURSES. And too many patients for the nurses that were there.
So when you look for the reasons for poor medical care, look at the administrators. They usually are the reason for the shortage of nurses in any hospital. In their misguided approach to pinching pennys; they always eliminate the largest expense first. And that expense is labor. Admin type people have no respect for the floor nurse. They are always trying to get rid of “a few more” just to balance their budgets.
Steve
Kim on 28 Apr 2007 at 1:31 am #
Maybe the author needs to stop blaming the nurses and start looking at the system that has made it nearly impossible for the nurses in the NHS to give decent care. She could have had awful nurses on that unit, they do exist, but from what I read of the NHS, it isn’t easy to give any sort of personal care…..
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