dragonfly1325

I will give my hospital a little credit, they let me take off as much time as I needed. They were all there when my nephew died, at our hospital, my nursing supervisor is the one that called me and told me I needed to get up there, I was already to late, but I got to sit with him for a long time and my sister after he died and our DON came back in after she had just got home about 50 miles away, they were really good about it all. But, it is not everyday that we have a 6 year old die in this way in our ER, He was backed over numerous times by a truck, ( sorry if that is TMI). I know they did the best they could do, and I knew all the nurses that took care of him. It was just like seeing my dad all over again, they died in the same room Trauma 2. thanks for listening, sorry so long.

The rules at our hospital are like that as well. My dad died in June 2005 and I got 24 hours bereavement pay, but, when my 6 year old nephew died in October 2007, They said a nephew is not immediate family. I helped raise this child and he lived with me for four out of his six years, I was very upset. He was like my own child. One of my co-worker's brother in law died a few weeks later and she got paid for that. There are so many things wrong with this picture.

I am Sorry, I should have went more in to depth. This co worker is elderly, she has been at our hospital since, probably before I was born. Up untill here recently, she has taken care of her husband. He died, I guess around the same time things started getting really bad. Now all she has at home is her dogs. I am just afraid that someone is going to get hurt. The nurses, up until now have always done good about checking behind her. We just need someone that can do their job. We all try very hard not to be mean because we know it is not her fault. I just go back and forth from being mad to feeling sorry for her. Mad at our directors for letting it get this far and bad for my co worker because this is all she has. I'm sorry if this seems so scatterbrained, I am tired and fixing to go to bed. thanks for all the support guys. I knew I could count on you.:innerconf

Thank you guys for all of the advice. I agree the nurses should have picked up on this long before it got to this. I feel like they have been picking up her slack for years. Our Director was made aware of this. I do understand now that someone needs to fill out her competency sheet truthfully, We are doing no one favors, including our patients by keeping her around. We were just all hoping it would not come down to this, she has been here for a very long time. Hopefully, they can ask her to retire. Thank you guys so much.

I will not use names to protect privacy. I have some questions about a co worker(CNA) that works on days. I work nights(I am also a CNA) and often have to take over her patients. Everyone on our floor believes something is wrong, we don't know if it is Alzheimers disease or what but she forgets everything. There are new surgery patients that are not checked on and many things like that. This has been brought to our Directors attention many many times, and she said she would take care of it. This has been going on for almost a year. Well, Last Tuesday, I took over 2 patients that were fresh surgeries. The flowsheets were not handed off to me, I just had this feeling so I looked for them. When I found them, The pulse ox's charted on one of these flowsheets was 93%, 92%, 89%, 86% and the last one that was charted was a pulse ox of 78%. This was never reported to the nurses. I went staright down to her room and done a set of vitals, guy's, her pulse ox was 41%, and her resps were 5, I got my nurse and we put her on 5L of O2, and turned off her PCA. She did okay without having to have narcan. But something has to give. Our Director said that she would do something after Christmas, then she said it would have to be after evaluations. This particular CNA's competency sheet is hanging up at the desk because nobody wants the responsibility of filling it out. All of these incidents have been written up, how can they not do something about it. I know she is still there because she was there when I went to pick up my check this afternoon. So my question is who do we take it to now? I know we should follow the chain of command, but who is next, I made sure my nursing supervisor wrote this last incident up as well. We all know our Doctor's pretty well, do you think we should mention it to them as well? I would really apprieciate some advice. We really feel like our patients are in Danger.

I had both of my boys at our hospital, One in 97, and one in 05, after I started working there. We have many OB doc but 90% use 1 certain one. He is really the only one the treats us as people, If you see him in the hall he will ask how you are doing. Or maybe even get you an appointment sooner than two months in advance. If I could still have kids I would still deliver there. But, We love our docs, I had him do my hysterectomy last Jan.

I don't post very often but wanted to ask a question, Cone biopsy? Is that the same as a Cold Knife Cone? If so,I had this done in Sept. of last year along with a D&C, and I can not imagine having this done with anything but general anesthesia. Although I would have loved to have has some versed when I went to have my first pap smear afterwards, I have had several pap smears, and this one hurt worse than anything I have ever had done.