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1. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

   fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

   Hello, all. I think I've contributed about all I am worthy of as a lay-person, certainly in terms of the original question re. response times. The discussion has been thorough and touched on a number of other related and important issues. Further ...

2. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

   fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

   Hello all again, and again, thank you for the continued interest and input. As an update, I must say that our nursing situation specifically has improved over the last couple of days. I have to give some credit to the insight and support from this...

3. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

   fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

   Hello again, all, and thank you all for taking the time to chime in. My original post clearly touches on a number of issues. One common theme throughout though is under-resourcing. I cannot speak to how things operate outside of Ontario, but here...

4. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

   fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

   Thanks - that is good insight. I will keep that in mind as we move through next week. My mom is now all but resigned to the near future and, as always, wants his comfort to come first. It's just that it's only now that she's come to grips with the...

5. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

   fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

   No, not yet. We are hoping we will get some direction on that from the palliative doctor at some point. Withoug going too far off topic, our particular situation is (I'm assuming) a little unique in that my mother, for all her strengths and seemin...

6. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

   fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

   I understand the need for independent assessment, but there is a humilation factor there. Just too close to situation and the patient, I guess. We've discussed palliating at home with both the nephrologists and the one palliative doctor we've met wi...

7. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

   fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

   Yes, there is a palliative care unit here, but apparently only for those who expectancy is measured in days. There is another facility for "weeks", and yet another for "months". That's why the results of the monitoring are important, so we are to u...

8. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

   fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

   Well, to your point about being on break, all I can say is "yeah, exactly". This is a specific item that I guess I don't understand enough, i.e. the nature of nurse duties vs. PSWs vs. the girls that seemingly just sit at the desk and do paging a...

9. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

   fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

   As for the process of dying, loriangel14, I have to say just about all of the doctors we have spoken to have been fairly good at helping us at least get our head wrapped around the idea that it's coming. I would still like to know a lot more about s...

10. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

    fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

    Thanks for the feedback, nursinghealth. I guess I/we ultimately understand there are much larger systemic issues at play here. It is definitely frustrating and scary. Still, today, when I had to go out to the desk to find out what was going on aft...

11. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

    fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

    No, no catheter as yet. I couldn't agree more about fear of the unknown. We continue to press for information on what to expect, but essentially the message so far is that it is hard to tell. I should mention that at this point, we are in a holdin...

12. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

    fizzydrinks replied to fizzydrinks's topic in Safety

    Hi, loriangel14. Thanks for the prompt reply. I will not deny the do-more-with-less situation that nurses are facing. It seems to be an epidemic everywhere, really. I guess this is, in fact, at the root of my question. How does one gauge how lon...

13. nurse call response times in Ontario hospitals

    fizzydrinks posted a topic in Safety

    Hello, all. To introduce myself, I am not a nurse; rather, I am the son of an elderly patient - my father - currently in hospital in Mississauga, ON. In fact, I am writing this from his bedside. My father, 84, is suffering from renal failure and al...