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Originally Posted by ilovetv
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!
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Easy answer: Call the charge nurse from your bedside phone. The number is written on every white board in every room.
This is what I meant about false info. You are quoting this person as if she/he is completely telling the truth. That is why I pointed out errors in what they said. I'm not saying that they are lying but since the said at least two things that could never happen then I question everything. Don't you?
BTW: Our ER nurses are not new grads. In fact we don't allow nurses in the ER until they have had about 2 years experience elsewhere. Again this is the truth but you can ignore the facts if you wish.