Jeremy Evans posts cryptic tweets about Nurses
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I would encourage him to. I'd also recommend he speaking with the Nurse Manager of the department, as well as the House Supervisor.
Maybe this is Evans being nice.
Maybe he had a really bad experience and the offending nurse was Donna Sterling or something?
Just saying it's a two way street. People can be jerks in any field.
I'm just giving Evans the benefit of the doubt because everything I have seen or heard about him shows him to be a good dude.
Maybe he had a really bad experience and the offending nurse was Donna Sterling or something?
Just saying it's a two way street. People can be jerks in any field.
I'm just giving Evans the benefit of the doubt because everything I have seen or heard about him shows him to be a good dude.
Mongoose
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Amen... Heaven knows Jeremy screws up at his job!
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I can't speak for this facility but do you realize how badly the healthcare in this country sucks. You're more likely to get sicker in a healthcare facility than any place else. Just look up the stats. All the screw-ups with meds, the lack of sleep, poor nutrition they feed you, the risks of infection. We are near the bottom in quality of care as a nation and at the very top in costs by far. The insurance and drug companies have us by the balls -- people need to wake up. This is a crisis.
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RobDMB
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As a nurse that worked at an IHC facility (McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden) I can tell you (from experience) that the nurse-patient relationship hinges on too many things to assume anything about Jeremy's comments.
Insensitive nurse vs. Entitled patient
Nurse who can't do their job well vs. Patient who knows a lot about their rare disease/injury
1 nurse for 6 patients (5 of which watch the clock for pain medicine down to the minute, or 1 who doesn't let go of their call light all shift long)
etc., etc., etc...
The majority of nurses that I worked with were great, but we all had weaknesses. Some spent too much time addressing patient emotional issues and ended up late or mixed up giving meds. Some spent too much time perfecting their physical care of the patient and barely spoke to the patient at all. With the squeeze that is going on in healthcare right now the nurses are being asked to do more and more everyday all while increasing the amount of time they spend documenting care in the chart ("if it doesn't get charted, it didn't happen"). There are only 12 hours in a shift...
That being said, a good patient can have a bad experience with a crappy nurse. As has been mentioned already in this thread, nurses are in their workplace when you see them. Some of them are good, some of them are okay, and some of them are horrible. Healthcare workers generally get held to a higher standard than most other workers because of what's on the line. People don't get as fired up about the stocker at the grocery store leaving a can upside down on the shelf because it doesn't really matter. If your ICU nurse punches in the wrong rate for an continuous IV medication you could die.
Insensitive nurse vs. Entitled patient
Nurse who can't do their job well vs. Patient who knows a lot about their rare disease/injury
1 nurse for 6 patients (5 of which watch the clock for pain medicine down to the minute, or 1 who doesn't let go of their call light all shift long)
etc., etc., etc...
The majority of nurses that I worked with were great, but we all had weaknesses. Some spent too much time addressing patient emotional issues and ended up late or mixed up giving meds. Some spent too much time perfecting their physical care of the patient and barely spoke to the patient at all. With the squeeze that is going on in healthcare right now the nurses are being asked to do more and more everyday all while increasing the amount of time they spend documenting care in the chart ("if it doesn't get charted, it didn't happen"). There are only 12 hours in a shift...
That being said, a good patient can have a bad experience with a crappy nurse. As has been mentioned already in this thread, nurses are in their workplace when you see them. Some of them are good, some of them are okay, and some of them are horrible. Healthcare workers generally get held to a higher standard than most other workers because of what's on the line. People don't get as fired up about the stocker at the grocery store leaving a can upside down on the shelf because it doesn't really matter. If your ICU nurse punches in the wrong rate for an continuous IV medication you could die.
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Coach Ellis
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All these things are true, you have good and bad in every profession. But as someone who has a child who suffered from a debilitating injury and had to spend a lot of time in the hospital, the overwhelming quality of care from his nurses in both Anerican Fork and Provo was amazing. Hard job to do, but they made his recovery much smoother.
Maybe they suck at their job. Not saying what happened one way or the other, but I've seen nurses who are incompetent or uncaring, just like any other profession out there.