Nurse switches off ventilator by "mistake" - caught on camera

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11612402

This is an unbelievable and tragic story of a man with a SCI and paralyzed from the neck down, reliant on agency home nurses and who didn't trust the care he was receiving. He arranged for a video camera to be set up, and within days it caught the nurse switching OFF his ventilator. She was then unable to ambu-bag him (trying to place the mask over his face instead of connecting it to his trach).

He ended up severely brain damaged as he was without oxygen for 14 minutes.

Unbelievable. Where are they hiring these "nurses" from?

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Man catches Home Nurse's tragic mistake - Nursing for Nurses

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"Unbelievable. Where are they hiring these "nurses" from?"

Beware of unafiliated home health/hospice. Often they like to hire new nurses and offer inadequate training. This brings in the cash for the owners who themselves have no clinical background. The newbies do not know what they do not know, until it's too late.

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

As there is already a thread discussing this incident I will close this one. Feel free to comment in the first thread

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