When will hospitals...?!
Question: start hiring more nurses so there is a more manageable nurse to patient ratio???
i just saw the yahoo headline about the twins who were given the wrong medication (i think they died). another headline said mistakes kill 100k patients yearly. THIS IS NOT OK!!!
this is why i, as a nurse, will not work in a hospital. i know that every nurse is capable of making these deadly mistakes. and i can't bear the thought of being one of those nurses.
Answers: start hiring more nurses so there is a more manageable nurse to patient ratio???
i just saw the yahoo headline about the twins who were given the wrong medication (i think they died). another headline said mistakes kill 100k patients yearly. THIS IS NOT OK!!!
this is why i, as a nurse, will not work in a hospital. i know that every nurse is capable of making these deadly mistakes. and i can't bear the thought of being one of those nurses.
The twins did not die but were given the wrong dose of medication and almost never survived. I know what you mean by hospitals needing more nurses. I know a lot of nurses who can't get jobs but hospitals are understaffed. Makes me so mad cause they still bill your insurance like you got good care when you had to wait 30+ minutes for nurses to come change your IV's or give you medication. I was sent home twice after surgery with a pan to vomit in when the anesthetic made me sick but they didn't have enough nurses to cover the rooms where I could have been kept as a patient until the vomiting stopped. The first time it took 4 days at home to stop. The Dr. had to call in a prescription to make it stop. This is a ridiculous way to live when they bill our insurance like we had proper treatment.
probably never. Hospitals are too cheap to spend the extra money to hire more nurses, they want to keep all that extra money as profits for their investors.
I'm going into nursing myself. Nurses are definitely overworked and that causes problems.
Hospitals are tight with their money. It's sad. But I plan to work in a hospital to do what I can to help.
Not all hospitals are like this. My friend is a nurse and they are constantly over staffed.
One of the problems is there are not enough nurses in general--it's one of the most needed careers and all the positions simply can't be filled. You can't blame the hospitals, and you should know this since you are a nurse.
Well if they would, then your hospital expenses would double. The trouble I see is not only to few nurses, but they should be assigned to the same floor and same end of the hall where they really get to know the patients one on one. But they won't do that, because if they have to work in a different area, they won't have any idea of what the patients concerns are. They have to rely on written orders and treatments left by someone who just went home, and not all written orders solid information and leave room for a lot of mistakes.
The twins did not die, and yes it was a mistake that should have never happened! I work in a hospital pharmacy and drug strengths are one of the most important things that must be double checked! I know that as a licensed pharmacy technician my work is double checked by a licensed pharmacist. Once the medication is sent to the nurse there must be another double check system, otherwise errors like the twins will continue to occur. Assuming that the correct product was sent should never be the case.The manufacturer changed the labels on that particular drug but whether the label is changed or not it is the strength that is absolutely the most important thing that must be checked! Some strengths just aren't made for babies without some sort of further dilution.
No body cares about the patients its all about MONEY