Originally Posted by veteranRN I work in LTC part time and I could definetly see how this could happen. Some of the staff I work with would hardly get off their butts to help a resident. So infuriating.
I have worked in LTC for over 9 years and have NEVER met a nurse or any staff that would have let something like this happen. This kind of stuff just doesn't happen in LTC, you know. I can't tell you how many residents have come back from hospitals with wounds you wouldn't believe, and bruises from restraints, and family memebers that do not want their loved ones sent to the hospital ever again because of the "care" they received.
Point being, blame the nurse or the staff involved, not the whole industry. LTC nurses for the most part are not lazy, unmotivated, uncaring or unknowledgeable.
Ok, off my soapbox....
I can't believe this happened! True, we don't know how he died, or what, if any, obvious injuries he sustained when he fell.....but were neuro checks done, did they try to go back and recheck his BS even after he refused? Did they call the doc when he first started going bad for further orders? I would've just sent him out to be evaled considering the brittle diabetic dx, vomiting and fall, etc. Frustrating, esp when you see that when corporations take over nursing care, things like this almost always happen.
Uhm...Why no CPR?
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