No nurses, pt died.

[mandi131]

I have worked on a cardiac floor now for two years and have seen it go from top notch to bottom of the barrel. When I started there were great experienced nurses to learn from but politics have set in and most of them have left. We are now left with mostly new grads who have not taken ACLS and I am not kidding 2 nurses who have been RN's for more than a year on night shift. This is critical care and most of the nurses couldn't run a code if there life depended on it. There was a case a couple of weeks ago where a woman in her 40's was on my floor for an hour, coded, and died. All the while no one had remembered to turn on the the equipment to record the heart rhythms. So this woman died and there is really no documentation. Is this not just a crazy, unsafe way to run a floor? I know at this point I don't even think I would go to this hospital for myself. This is not just an isolated event. Situations like this happen all of the time. There needs to be a balance of new and experienced nurses.

[kinghill]

The hospital should be shut down if it's just there to kill patients. Unfortunately nothing really will happen. The pt's family will probably get paid off from settlement and the whole thing will be swept under a carpet somewhere.

[interleukin]

"The pt's family will probably get paid off from settlement and the whole thing will be swept under a carpet somewhere."

Not if you have the guts to editorialize the incident should no real change take place.