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| Diane The Pink House On The Corner |
Five years ago, tonight, Bob was in ICU for post-op recovery when he had a massive stroke. And the nurse, that night, was a new nurse, on employee probation and was supposed to be monitored by a supervisor, and she wasn't. And through the course of the night, she documented Bob's deterioration (arm paralyzed, then leg paralyzed, then confused/unable to talk/"glascow coma stage", etc.) without contacting a doctor. And when Bob tried to get her attention, to tell her something was very wrong, she told him to "settle down!" and pumped him full of morphine, so that he would pass out and thereby -- settle down and shut up.
That RN is still practicing today. Taking care of patients. Maybe taking care of someone you know and love.
The next morning, when the shift changed, another nurse came in and, still, that morning nurse did not contact a doctor. She's the one who said to me, "Isn't he always like this?" (meaning paralyzed, unable to talk)
That RN is also still practicing today. Maybe taking care of someone you know and love.
And that night and morning after, those two nurses, truth be told, murdered Bob. Even if it took over four years to kill him off. They finally succeeded.
And I think something is very wrong with a system that allows those nurses to continue working in the health care community and never have to pay any price for what they did to him. And to me.
If you ask me, they both should be in prison. For negligent homicide.
Just my thoughts...
And yes, this is a very hard anniversary for me. No wonder I'm cracking up.
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