Why do some still sick pts get the boot, while needy not too sick ones stay too long?

[FireStarterRN]

Why is it that some people who've had major surgeries or other medical catastrophies, get rushed out of the hospital as if they are cars on a assemblyline? And other patients, with vague symptoms of abdominal pain, get to linger for days, milking the nursing staff for all they're worth?

I had a patient this weekend who was booted out too soon post CABG only to be returning in terrible shape and heading towards intubation. I had some other patients who were needy, demanding, non-compliant people who really need to live in LTC and they got to linger on forever and a day.

[squeakykitty]

Thanks you make me laugh and that is a good thing.

They do need to write the editorials----in every newspaper. Maybe some educating on the nurses role, and how NOT to act in the hospital.