Originally posted by nadia562002
It just so happens that I work at the University of Washington Medical Center. Believe me, I had my skepticm when I started in that every hospital has it downside. There is a reason why the U has received magnet status 3 times for nursing. They really have lived up to what they told me at the interview and what I have seen in practice. So far, every patient I have had sincerely believed that they are recieving the best care from their entire health care team. I have also received the best orientation I could possibly hope for.
Gosh, I don't want to make any enemies here. I do believe they are cutting edge and have the utmost respect for the institution. I have friends that have had complicated major operations there that probably could have only been done in a handfull of hospitals.
My comment stems from a personal experience. A girl I lived with had a rare disease. Not a whole lot was written about it and it was a great chance for the UW to study it. She had been there a few weeks (this time) and everything they were doing was not of benefit. On one of my nightly visits two nurses took me aside and asked if I fully understood what was going on. She was an experiment so to speak. The bottom line was she was going to die and nothing was going to stop it. I decided to take her home that night. Once word got to the drs that she was leaving, there was a steady stream of them coming in to try and change our minds. Thank God for those two nurses and their advocacy. I'm just saying that another hospital might have said there was nothing they could do instead of wanting to keep her for experiments. Not that there is anything wrong with that, disease's need to be studied, but the pt should have a choice. That is the mentality I speak of in my post.
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