Right now it's damage report and control. I called the nurses station and spoke with the charge nurse that was on duty when this happened. after telling her that I was going to report this and possibly have her lisence yanked, her reply was "I have no excuse for this."
I was directed to the director of that floor who tried to squirm. She said that she was on duty all day yesterday and had patrolled that floor. My wife was ambulatory, she could get up and walk around. She wanted a smoke so she got on the elevator. When she arrived on the first floor there was a person with a cart rolling two sheet cakes onto the elevator. She had to walk about 100 yards off of the campus to smoke, then went back in, got a burger out of a vending machine, nuked it and ate it. she was gone over an hour.
When she went back up to her floor, there was a party going on at the nurses station, that's where the cake was going. Maybe it was one nurse's birthday or whatever but they were chatting it up and eating cake. She went back into her room where Mrs. Wright, this 83 year old woman was and asked.. "Has anyone come in to check on you?"
"No" This is the same woman who needs help on and off of the potty. They were partying it up at the nurses station while she sat alone with her IV bag banging the alarm. This IV bag contains medications that are supposed to be etered out at a precise dose on the minute. When it goes into alarm, no meds are administered. The same poor woman who soiled her bed when she couldn't get assistance.
The director dodged and tried to divert my attention off of this abuse. She actually told me that my wife was not supposed to go and smoke unnattended. I was not diverted. I told her "Excuse me, don't try to put this on my wife, this woman was neglected for over an hour needing to pee while your nurses ate cake and ignored her call." I love making her squirm for right now while she tries to cover her ass.
Tomorrow I'll speak with the Administrator of the hospital. I love the fact that I'm a seasoned paramedic and know what string to pluck in the right order to hang them all. The abuse and cover up rises to the highest levels and I'm going to expose them all. this woman is trying to save her job. These nurses are supposed to make rounds every 30 minutes and she is responsible for seeing that they do this. Meanwhile at the nurses station, there is aparty going on while a poor 83 year old woman is stranded on the potty or worse yet, shitting her bed.
The Texas Department of Health holds all of our certifications and if we are exposed for patient abuse, they can yank them. A nurse will no longer be a nurse after two years of school. But you know what? I don't care if they loose their job, I don't want this type of person taking care of your or my Mother or Grandmother. Again, these are helpless people, senior citizens, veterans who fought for our country and now can't even get some lazy nail filing, cake eating witch to help them onto a toilet.
I am a man dammit and it is hard for a man to say this but I have actually helped one of my male patients urinate when he couldn't do it for himself. He was spinal immobilized, completely strapped down, he could not move.I had to go and get a urinal, take his penis out and place it into the recptacle and let him pee into it so he didn't have to piss in his stretcher. I expect all health care givers to exhibit the same behavior. No, it isn't pleasant or fun for either of us, it is embarrassing for the patient as well as the attendant but dammit man, if I'm about to soil myself I hope that someone has the compassion to drop their pride and do what has to be done.
Tomorrow I'm calling the hospital administrator, the patient advocate and then TDH because I know they will bury this all and more patients will suffer. But I do want them to know that their nurses eat cake while someone's grandmother has to poop her bed and then be humilited for it.
Right now, I'm enjoying seeing them twitch and squirm and try to not let this get out. My wife had a great idea, to just pose as a patient and record all of the neglect and abuse for the hospital administration so they can actually see what happens on the floors while our loved ones suffer. I will offer to pose as a patient if they really want to see this but I also am going to let them know that still it is going to be reported.
This really sucks, I wonder what kind of care that my Mother recieved in her final hours. I am going to fry their asses in mollassess. Did I spell that right?
