RMH, maybe it is just me...?

[Proud Pies]

no, it's not just you. But thank god for people like you who stick up for their families. I did that when my father was still alive and in hospital with his cancer. The private hospital he was in, wasn't even giving him any information at all! I saw Red!!!........

[y2Traci]

It's definitely not just you Tess. How hard is it to check someone's been given their medication? Its not good enough to leave a sick lady sitting there.

Hope your mum's feeling better now.

[HAL]

sleeping he or she checked on her and she is is sleeping he or she checked on her and she is ?

[Proud Pies]

How remiss of me Tess. I hope your mother is going to be ok.

[HAL]

Why specifically do you hope for your mother is going to be?

[Joel]

Just thought I would add, the changeover may have only happened shortly before you got there. Therefore, it could well have been the fault of the previous shift.

[Joel]

It depends upon how long it takes for the drugs to be made up aswell. If they ordered them late, then that could be an issue.

[HAL]

Interesting explanation.

[punkologist]

I deal with some of the staff at RMH at work. Its a wonder they are able to function at all if what I deal with is any indication.

[Joel]

I must say though, my gf has done a stint at RMH for her uni clinicals, and she hated the place. Thought many of the people there were wankers, and/or didn't know what they were doing, or follow correct procedures.

[fan4collingwood]

What is really sad is that if Mum wasn't feeling so unwell, there is no way she would have put up with being forgotton in a chair. Mum would have asked where was her medicine, but being unwell for 2 weeks took her spirit away for a short time. Tess firing up gave Mum her spirit back, and she got mad instead of upset, and as all in our family know....look out when any one of us is angry!

Just ask my ex!

[Morrigu]

The current funding system does not allow for patients once a discharge date is set to remain in that bed.

Usual practice these days is for patients who cannot be collected by family etc to be transferred to transit units until either collected by family or transported by taxi, patient transport services or ambulance to their destination.

This has come about as a result of community pressure regarding waiting lists and time spent on trolleys in the Emergency Depts. There are now huge financial penalities associated with hospitals postponing/cancelling elective surgery or going on hospital by-pass - in the end everything these days seems to come down to money *sigh*

It would matter not one scrap - how caring the nurses or anyone else was - once the discharge of a patient has been medically"signed off" then that bed is allocated to another patient by the bean counters.

Not that for one minute am I suggesting that nursing care has not gone downhill - as a dinnosaur who trained many years ago under the hospital training system - it is depressing to see what passes for nursing care these days.

You would be amazed at the number of times that families "forget" "can't" or "won't" come and pick up their loved ones - used to go on for days and at times weeks - not that for one minute Tess am I suggesting that this was the case with you - but this is what promptied the change and I suppose the "hard line" approach you see in action today.

I hate to tell you Tess, but the appearance of your mum's medication shortly after you began "yelling" is just sheer luck! Yelling is very common place - it's the spiiting and threat of or actual physical assault that usually gets a response - usually fom some burly security boys!

I hope you follow through with your complaint to the patient advocate - it is only through this that the bean counters who now run the public hospitals will take any notice - they have the power to change processes -not the ward nurses!

[fan4collingwood]

Mum was asked would she mind waiting in a chair for Tess to arrive, as they new Tess would be there in 90 minutes. Mum said no worries. Next time Mum will be telling them NO WAY!! She will not get out the bed unless forced to.

[Morrigu]

[Northern Pie]

I agree assassin the worlds priorities are certainly stuffed up....

Cheers