Judging Patients & Families

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My loved one had to wait in agony for 8 hours in the ER before they received pain and nausea medication. As I mentioned in a previous post, I worked at a state hospital during college and we had attendants who were high school graduates (in a few cases, high school dropouts) and one attendant would prepare medication for 30 patients two or three times on the day shift. I was stunned to learn that only an RN was allowed to give my family member pain and nausea medication when it would have been a simple matter to have an aide or assistant in the ER help out.

Just curious, but if I was a doctor, politician, or baseball player, would my family member have had to wait that long?

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Originally posted by LisaRN2B

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second that

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I'm really beginning to think this poster is mentally ill......in any case, I think we need to ignore him/her, as he/she is obviously getting a lot of jollies from pissing us off!:eek:

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Yep, we should just hijack all of his/her posts and start talking about something else......

So what is everyone getting their kids for christmas, I am ashamed to say I haven't even started shopping yet.......

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Sooooooo, are you saying that my loved one did not have to wait 8 hours for pain and nausea medicine?????? The best way to discount someone is to label them mentally ill. Are you saying that my family member's call bells were all answered promptly and that I am imagining everything I reported?

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I have a 12 yr old and I just have no idea what to get him...........the others are easy I have a 3 yr old and an 8 month old

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Edited to remove innapropriate jabber.

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So what is everyone getting their kids for christmas, I am ashamed to say I haven't even started shopping yet....... >>

Not surprised. If nurses won't bring patients their pain medicine promptly, they sure won't be shopping for Christmas presents the first week of November.

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Yeah, my son is into electronics, I think just giving him money or gift certificates would probably be the best bet.........

I just have to get through Thanksgiving with my family, its at my house this year, arghhhhh

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

No, but you do have a terrible anger against nurses that is bordering on obsession. I'm sorry your loved ones have suffered, but you need to blame a health care system that cuts nurse staffing to the bone to save money, leaving too few RNs to take care of too many patients. If you truly were interested in solving this problem, instead of trashing nurses who are already busting their asses to take care of sicker and sicker patients, you might get a better response........as it is, you have completely alienated me, as well as a number of others on this BB.

Let's agree to disagree, then. You can ignore me, and I will ignore you. :stone

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:)

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