lilwoody wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:12 am
My wife and I just spent a few day with our friends in the mountains. My buddies wife was a ICU nurse for the last decade. Well that was until she quit 3 months ago. There were 3 major issues she had that brought about her deciding to quit. First was the lack of treatment given if a simple viral test came back positive. After the Qtip to the back of the sinus test came back positive for a virus, any one of many possible viruses it was the coof and there was no more discussion or questions. In the past there would be tests to try to discover which virus in order to treat it properly. Then guess what? There wasn't one case of the flu that came into her ICU in the entire time.
Second was the doctors all turned into robots. There was a strict protocol to wait to intubate patients until they coded. Their oxygen levels would be allowed to get so low that in the past the doctor would have faced sever consequences if allowed it to happen. At that point there was no way the patient would ever come off the machine. This lack of previously standard treatment ties into her last major reasons.
NO family members were allowed any access to their loved ones. No one was there to demand action on treatment for their family member. Thus no one was there to witness the dilibert sloth. Making it much worse for her, these poor souls who were in her mind made into statistics for the CDC only had her and her other nurses with them when the doctors had them removed from the machines and the passed.
This woman was hard as nails. She was a rock. Now she is nearly broken. She refuses to go back into hospitals as long as this continues. She gave my wife and I a warning. Do not go to a hospital unless your family can accompany you. She did say what Florida is offering is very good and would have probably saved many of the people she watched die.
Oh and with all the exposure she had to all those people, she, her husband and some only tested positive once. Even then none got sick.
That is so sad what they are doing to patients.
My now deceased sister in law from a CHF and kidney failure. Was in hospital with her kidneys and staff was having problem with her blood pressure. It was way to low and could not get it up.
Now this is basic stuff here. If your blood pressure is below a certain point you cannot use nitro on the patient because nitro will cause low bp. I'm standing there looking at her and see a patch on her shoulder. Look at her chart which they had hung at foot of bed for anyone to see. Like nosey me.
Blood pressure was severely low and they were trying to get it elevated but could not do it. But that patch on her shoulder.....nitro patch. Which is contraindicated with anyone with low blood pressure. Call nurse into room explained that to her and said they need to remove that nitro patch because her BP was way to low to have that on her. She looked at chart. 5 mins later doctor walks into room leaves and nurse comes back and removes nitro patch. By few hours later blood pressure started coming up until it was OK that fact.
Oh btw doctor acted annoyed about the whole thing.
Pain meds on top of nitro was maybe what caused the severe low BP. I use to give nitro as one method to lower elevated BP in patients.
My point as stated above. By not allowing family into see the patient. Patient has no patient advocacy. Hospitals can and do make a ton of mistakes pertaining to patient care and patients have died because of this. When I did my clinical in ICU I know for a fact they caused the death of one young girl. I watched them do it.
I did not know this but apparently it's been available for a while.
