Why our hospitals are close to total failure/modern day patients/ obamacare

It's our culture that is the biggest hot mess, Creating mini ones in its wake. 75%+ of Americans should euthanized.

They do come out worse than they went in because of the poor nurse patient ratios. They get malnutrition because their nurse doesn't have time to feed them because she is constantly dealing with multiple simultaneously emergencies and orders getting thrown at her. The get infected stage 4 pressure ulcers because they are not helped out of bed when their nurse cannot take the time to do it because she is overwhelmed with everything else going on.

Drug errors happen. We had a patient die because the family member of another patient was harassing his nurse while she was hanging a fentanyl drip. The drip got fucked up and infused to fast.

Not only are the RNs working short but too many patients and families see them as hospital waitresses who are there to provide service rather than seeing them as overwhelmed care providers who have too many life and death problems to deal with at once.

The guy who was harassing the nurse hanging the fentanyl drip followed her into another patient's room to harass her because his dad wasn't happy with his meal tray. He distracted the nurse and caused a death. Selfish fucker. Complain to the kitchen dumbass! Nurses have no control over the damn food trays.

>hospitals close to total failure


All the unhealthy people keep having the hospitals in Cincinnati grow larger and larger each year. The hospitals here are making so much money.

Yep it is the nurse who is responsible for catching any changes in condition or conflicting and thus deadly orders put in your chart by two different docs who didn't talk to eachother first. Your doc will see you for about 5 minutes once every 24 hours, the rest of the time is down to your RN. So if she gets hung up with retarded family members bitching about food or whatever, you'll die.

All that you describe is the result of our SICKO culture.

The adminstration of all hospitals just want $$$$$$

greed has taken over all of this culture to a far and beyond pathelogical state

but no one is healthy enough mentally EITHER to care about it and try to change it

What they do is take the nurses license if he or she cant take care of ALL those patients and find


more nurses


Our culture is sick ; and filled with pschos who only care about $$$$$$$


This is a symptoms of FALL OF EMPIRE


it is eroding from within and falling

You replied to my post, but you didn't refute what I said.


You replied to my post, but you didn't refute what I said.

Well Said.

100% agree with the OP.

I work in healthcare too and see EXACTLY what the poster is stating. It is fact. It is a sordid state of affairs. A 550lb woman came in that other day with tattoos all over her corpulent body with 10 face piercings, of course on welfare with an iphone to boot.

Payouts to physicians are decreasing. There are doctors who are retiring early and leaving groups that have been together for years. Our volume has increased because of ACA. This is becoming familiar, "Well, I have not have insurance in years, so now with OCare I am getting all this stuff done."

They are complete trainwrecks. I cannot imagine where healthcare will be in 10 years.

The world changed and now nurses are going to hold everyone accountable for choices they've made for the past 40 years that started back when freedom and choices were only yours to deal with and if you could pay for care you got it, if not, you didn't. Now nurses will be moral police because the rules changed on these people. Sad.

Yep

I use to catch the doc in the moring chart on the patients and never even go into their rooms to see them....

they would just chart off of what the nurse did the night before....

I made the doc go into the rooms and look at the patient!!!!

They hated me ; but I didn't care....this was malpractice

So many things made me want to leave the profession due to me being afraid for the patients ; and yes my license....


THe hospital administration is responsible for downzising those in the first line; those who work in the trenches.


This is one of the major reasons for all the hospital errors today

but no one will admit it because money and politics are more important than

really fixing the problems

Yep but if you don't get in with a pain med right away because one of your other patients is going down the tube you can bet your ass that the patient wanting the pain med will say "that bitch nurse didn't get me my narcotics because I'm black". Patients never yell or curse at managers who short staff the place.

Of course not

this society is brainwashed into the

master/slave mentality

The manager is ok because he or she has a '''title'''' the nurse is not

The overall REAL problem of all hospitals is the nurse /patient ratio

the adminsitration doesn't want to staff the floors like they should be because of $$$$

greed and politics is what our culture is all about...


No one will ever address the real issues ; it will never happen

it WILL all crash one day


Just like all the other empires have done.


A panel of smart competent nurses from all areas of the hosptital could probably solve most of the problems in each hospital

but this will never happen

because of that

master /slave mentality again

And you know who is going to get hung out to dry when admin screws up....

I wonder if they yelled at You because they have to deal with Obama supporters all day. I too deal with pain on a daily basis and can't get help because the majority of the people out there are pill heads. I have gotten so tired of the pain that I have started working out to try to correct the problem.

Doctor/patient confidentially (you can'talk about patients), hippa(privacy regulations ) that only seem to apply to benefit the govt ,not the patient.

My wife is a "charge" RN on a med/surgical floor. I can concur with op's post. I hear the same stories every day.


But we all have to pay more so fat-azz can keep burning oxygen. the U.S. medical system wasn't "broken". Certainly not by "greedy" corporations. No matter how many times the dems repeat it.

Real example from the past and the master/slave mentality:


I got off my 14 hour shift ; the worse yet. My white uniform had blood on it.... had to throw it away and wear a friends second pair of scrubs home. As I was getting into my ford fiesta....
... I saw '''Sarah'''' she got a job in hospital administration a few years ago. She now drives a BMW; covertible the newest model. She works 9 to 5... but who knows ; she makes her own hours....

She told me the other day they were considering downsizing the night nursing staff AGAIN for the 3rd time as they didn't believe night nurses worked

as hard a day nurses ;

and also, that night shift pay differential

will go away too for all night nursing staff in the hospital

The night nurses don't need it....


TRUE story

Read and apply this [link to jamesb.hubpages.com] if you really want to get rid of the pain.

Yes all true. Have worked in a hospital over 20 years. Noncompliance is a big factor. If people took care of themselves instead of expecting the government, the docs and nurses to do it then we'd have a much healthier healthcare system.

Nurses tell me that half their work with some patients is the family wanting a blanket, water etc, for themselves not the patient. Waiting on family members is not what the nurse is supposed to be doing.

Yep

this is a great example of the problem

greed, selfish greed

all true


the problem is huge and will never be fixed

because no one wants to address or tear down the real problems

the master /slave mentality

it goes on and on

endlessly

Obama care was never meant to succeed...

it was meant to destroy American...

mission accomplished!!!

now what are you going to do???

go down with the ship???

or accept the free gift ...

THE TRUTH!!!

that is THE WAY!!!

TO VICTORY AND FREEDOM!!!

Good god! They changed the rules and now you're passing judgement on the people?

Screw that thought of yours!

The staffing issue is a good point, your judgments on others sucks, though.

What you nurses don't seem to understand is that you aren't the only profession with these problems. Everything that's not desk work is getting pushed just as hard, and even the desk jockeys rarely get a strict 40hr week anymore.

I thought I had a light day in my prior profession when I only had a twelve hour day. That's just not right.

And I'm not talking your double shift weekends, either. I'm talking six days a week. Stop thinking you're so special with the terrible working conditions, you're not.

I remember a patient when I was a medical student. Elderly. Unresponsive (vegetative state). He had diabetes and had been in the hospital for months. First they amputated both feet, then legs to the knees, then above the knees, then to the hips. Our team was standing there discussing the fact that the very resistant infection had still spread to the pelvis and that the patient's family was insisting on them doing additional surgery to keep him alive at all costs - essentially would require removal of the pelvic bones. The family was threatening law suits.

The poor patient was being used by his family as they were getting his retirement benefits and other benefit checks for his hard work through his life.
But they had power of attorney and could call the shots. Now days, hopefully an ethics board would prevent this, but who knows.......it wasn't that long ago.

what awesome quality do you have that exempts you from
the 75%?

i suppose you really think that you are so awesome that
you deserve to be in the elite 25%.

Amazing picture of our predicament.

The real take away point here is that eventually everyone dies, no matter how well they are attended to.
Its the lawyers generating the assumption that if everyone does the right thing, death will be defeated, and that, friends, is not the reality to be dealt with.

Eventually every one of you will die, and there is nobody that can intervene, and its not anyones fault.
Every half baked, ungreatful and arrogant, blame assigning bullshit arguement intended to hang the medical people with blame they have to 'make compensation' for, is based on the lie of everlasting life if the medical people do the right things.

Deal with it, you get unlucky and you die early, and if you get lucky you die later,
NOBODY WILL KEEP YOU ALIVE FOREVER, get the fuck over it.

I have worked enough varied careers to choke a moose.

What you have here is a well rounded person

I have worked in a cubie , using a shovel , as a nurse, in a law office...the list is long

I understand.

I know there is burnout all over the place. This thread is about hospitals tho

Obviously the real answer is to force the highly trained people that fill the hospitals 24/7/365 to work for free, that way when you stumble off a cliff while drunk and high off your ass, people who have trained for 10 years can suck your drunk ass dick until you can win the Tour de France and do it for free.

Fuck you lot, none of you give anything you do for free, and most of you didnt invest 6 months of any real discipline to do what you do.
I guess youre just to precious, and there are drugs to be taken and youtube videos of you drunk off your ass shoving fireworks up your ass to be posted, after all, its your right.

Very true. You are correct.

The problem is;

you don't want to be the one on the end of the lawyer stick.
It can be very nasty

especially when the words like '''incompetence''', '''neglect''', '''patient abandonment''' start to be used.

If you could make all lawyers realize that everyone dies and there is no real problems; you will be the

hero.


THey take professional license tho and the person's way of making a living is dead in the water.

The front line nurses and docs get the license taken if they can't

get there quick enough and no one cares

The administration is going to keep all their expensive cars and homes

no one looks to them

master /slave mentality