The rehab center where my DIL works can’t accept any new patients until Jan. 31 because the nursing staff flunked a state inspection. Two nurses were caught sleeping in hospital beds, they were feeding a patient solid food when she was supposed to be on pureed food, lots and lots of violations.
The PT and OT staff got a 97% but they will all suffer because of the nurses who are still neglecting their duties which are often done by the PT and OT staffs just because it is to their patients best interests.
In defense of ‘real’ nurses - there are few real nurses around in hospitals these days. Those you see in nurse uniforms are nurses aids and those who have taken short nursing courses. Most of the RNs, BSNs and Nurse Practitioners are dedicated and good.
When my wife was hospitalized after back surgery she was repeatedly given the wrong medication. The doctor finally had to put in her chart that my mother-in-law or I had to be present to OK meds given to her.
After a C-section my wife rang the nurse call button for two hours. Her urine collecting bag hag overfilled and the floor was flooded with urine. She finally called me and I drove from our house to get the nurses off the phone and into her room to change the bag.
The quality of nursing at that hospital (the state’s best) is deplorable.