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"the Nurse, (actually a LPN) was so overwhelmed she never came into the (over 8 hours) so...I just left with my sister..."r

Originally Posted by Russ_Boston

First you say you were admitted? If so then the neuro doctor can not write the discharge (no exceptions to this rule). It has to be the admitting doctor. So I'm pretty sure that what happened is that the neurologist cleared you but you needed to wait until the attending doc (a hospitalist in this case since your doc either doesn't have privileges or was not available as you mentioned) wrote the d/c orders.

Second an ER doc has to be the one to write the admit to floor order. There is always an ER doc - always. Again no exceptions.

If you were on the floor (which floor?) and a nurse did not see you for 8 hours then you should have brought this to someone's attention. Did you do that? And if so what was their response?

I hate to sound defensive but since I do this for a living at TVRH I need to point out inconsistencies in these posts that I know can not happen.

I'm sorry you felt mistreated but some of the things you are saying are from your point of view only and I know some are not accurate as I pointed out.

When a person is sick and weakened and has not been able to eat properly because of high BP, vertigo, vomiting, pain, dizziness etc......

...Just who in the heck is the patient supposed to contact when nobody bothers to come into the patient's room for HOURS?????

Is the patient supposed to contact the same nurse/lpn who doesn't bother to come back in to even see if you're gone yet, so that at minimum, the room could be used for some other poor soul who's waited in the ER for a bed upstairs for 18 hours and has now had a full blown stroke because the cheaper, new grad nurses in ER were up to their eyeballs in alligators??

Blaming a sick patient for the nursing administrators allowing inept, apathetic or even lazy employees to continue putting in their time and getting a check for it is part of the problem, not the solution!