Re: woman dies in ER waiting room (article) Originally Posted by chuck1234 
That is OK to me...
I did not want to join the conversation at the beginning; however, after I saw a few nurses stated that we were not there and we should not judge the ER nurse. And that is how I joined the conversation, if you have time, you read the entire thread, you will find out one nurse posted a statement a while ago and said that he/she never stated there is no wrong doing on the ER nurse...if you read the entire thread, his/her point of view has changed, especially after he/she found out the ER nurse has resigned.
Anyhow, I am happy she/he has changed...so I can go to sleep tonight.
No actually, you jumped back in with the whole "we're all illegal" comments.
I've read all of the thread, and I didn't see where anyone changed their mind. For the record, I still think it was the fault of the Dr. If you are implying that I changed my mind after the nurse resigned, then you are wrong. The nurse resigning means nothing to me or my opinion.
Again, I will say that my opinion is that it was the fault of the 2 doctors who discharged her previously. She died within 45 minutes of her return. I don't believe that she would have survived. The nurse should have assessed her, but just because she fell to the ground doesn't give her a pass to the front of the list. We don't know, nor will we ever know what really happend. We don't know that she wasn't assessed, we don't know that she hadn't been seen because there were more urgent patients in front of her, and we don't know why the Dr's discharged her only 3 hours prior.
If there is fault to blame, it's with the Drs. (that way, everbody knows my opinion, and won't confuse it and/or construe it meet their needs-
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