Nurses are too busy to give the right drugs or treat bedsores. Both
can cause death - so exactly WHAT are they too busy with? I've been
there, seen them, and while I can't praise some NHS staff highly enough
I've also seen the other side.
Nurses too busy to put up a drip
for someone so close to kidney failure they have been admitted as an
emergency. Dangerously dehydrated - yet not treated urgently. My son
left that ward without even being offered a drink of water, let alone
the promised drip.
The care he received elsewhere was exemplary -
though seldom from the nurses themselves. A brilliant surgeon saved his
life - but bad nurses were everywhere. Things have to change.
I do
not want to find fault with nurses - my own sister is one, and a more
caring person you have never met. Yet no one can deny that In hospitals
the priorities get skewed, as seen by the shocking fact that nine out of
ten nurses admit to missing basic care, like proper drug regimes.
They
can't blame paperwork, that doesn't get done either, obvious from the
fact that my son's details were written on a discharged person's notes.
Bedpans take forever to arrive, so it's not that, and elderly patients
have to be able to feed themselves or go without. What are these tasks
that take up so much nursing time? I'd love to know
PS Im helping
sick people through my book Devil Deal, by Liz Freeman, now out on
Kindle and via the free Kindle app. I've just sent off my first cheque,
for £71, to Crohn's and Colitis UK, as half the profits from each £1.53
sale, $2,99, go to medical research. It's just a small start. A huge
thankyou to everyone who bought Devil Deal, a sexy suspense novel. It's
had great reviews so please get it and help keep the fund-raising
rolling along! Thanks.
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