Tuesday, 2 June 2015

The NHS

Now I have defended the NHS so many times but after my last visit to hospital it really upset me, all the support I have given shot to pieces by staff who just could not string two English words together so difficult to understand and impossible to ask questions of them because they could not understand me, please someone tell me the value of this to the English speaking patient?, I arrived in A&E to be looked after by a male foreign nurse, I had arrived in an ambulance and on the way a cannula was put in my arm by the paramedic, the nurse at the hospital told me that they could not use it as  had been administered by them, so he in his wisdom placed a second cannula in my arm next to the first one  then removed the one put in by the ambulance crew, when I was discharged the needle was removed from my arm, I was totally surprised to see that the cannula needle came out of my arm looking just like a fish HOOK bent how could that have happened?, I can only assume that when the second one was pushed in it hit the first one and bent, it is the only answer possible, this coupled with the administration of fluids, I was told by the Consultant that I needed 3 bags of saline fluid to re hydrate me, fine but I am fully aware of the NICE quality standard for this, and was very care full to watch and count the bags, just by luck I awoke to find a nurse about to administer a 4th bag, I asked just what she was doing to be told that I had been prescribed it by the consultant, I told her that I was not accepting this medication as it had not been prescribed, she went away and returned to say sorry they had made a mistake, just what might have happened is I had not been awake? this fluid would have been put in me causing who knows what, we need nurses that do not expect the heath care assistance to do all the menial work they need to join in and ensure that patient safety is preserved.
 

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