This darn hospital keeps getting worse. The night mom was checked in there was an elderly lady in the room next to her's. They share bathrooms
well my mom came into the bathroom to find the lady on the floor, my mom being a nurse at one point in her life was shocked that no one was attending to the lady who had apparently been calling for help. My mom went back to her call button and yelled for someone to come. When they did the nurse came to my mom thanked her and said yeah we know she was unstable but thought she could manage and we are understaffed due to the holidays.
This morning my mom calls me paniced because the new lady that they placed in the other room was in the bathroom bent over trying to hold her packing in from her hystretomy(sp) there was blood on the floor and gauze on the floor too. My mom went to her call button and told them to get in asap. She went back to be with the lady to make sure a nurse came. While waiting the lady had said her nurse to her to go into the bathroom to get ready to have help getting the shower and the nurse would be right there..that was 20mins ago!!! When a nurse finally came mom said where is her nurse...oh she's sitting at the front desk
My mom told the nurse it wasn't her job to take care of the people she is shareing a bathroom with. The nurse said well you know it's the holidays and we are short staffed, ok I will give them that but come on!! The nurse did pick up the guaze but just used a paper towel on the blood and smeared it. Mom told them to clean the bathroom. Apparently they didn't cause my mom went in to use it saw the blood still there an hr later and she cleaned it up...to which I told her that wasn't her job and it is dangerous.
She is suppose to have a procedure this afternoon for her stomach, but they still haven't given her solid food like the dr had told them and last night gave her spicy tortia (sp) soup..get for a bad stomach
we had discussed at one point me going there to have my surgery for the scar tissue from my appendix, since my work didn't give me the time off need to heal right, but there is no way I will go to this hospital