[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by the truth

thats whats she seems to be saying...Id assume if the pipes were dirty and contained a disease then she couldnt use them until they were cleaned ....I read an article a few months ago stating there are thousands of cases in the uk of complaints of patients being starved of food and deprived sufficient liquids in UK hospitals. we need a patients union not a nurses union. we are the ones suffering , being neglected and mistreated , but all the sympathy goes to the nurses? meanwhile thousands of innocents die agonising often unnecessarily painful and undignified deaths. and we all say nothing?

I know it's what she seems to be saying but it's rubbish....
Are we to believe a patient came in at 7st and did not eat for over a week,
her tube became blocked and the same bag of food sat on the drip for a week!
Meanwhile visitors,doctors and nurses don't notice?
Have there not always been good and bad nurses, why is it considered such a modern phenomenon....
they are better trained and educated than ever before, do educated people lack compassion?

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Merry Kizzmas

I know it's what she seems to be saying but it's rubbish....
Are we to believe a patient came in at 7st and did not eat for over a week,
her tube became blocked and the same bag of food sat on the drip for a week!
Meanwhile visitors,doctors and nurses don't notice?
Have there not always been good and bad nurses, why is it considered such a modern phenomenon....
they are better trained and educated than ever before, do educated people lack compassion?

how do you know its rubbish? what about the tens of thousands who suffer negligence and premature death at the hands of incompentent nurses?

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by the truth

how do you know its rubbish? what about the tens of thousands who suffer negligence and premature death at the hands of incompentent nurses?

You are redirecting your anger at nurses for some reason, I don't believe that story for a minute.
Closer 'the truth' is you are looking for someone to blame for the death of a loved one in hospital,as are the examples you offer rather than face your own guilt at not doing as much as you could have.

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Merry Kizzmas

You are redirecting your anger at nurses for some reason, I don't believe that story for a minute.
Closer 'the truth' is you are looking for someone to blame for the death of a loved one in hospital,as are the examples you offer rather than face your own guilt at not doing as much as you could have.

Hospital-acquired thrombosis:

Many of these young people are the victims of so-called community-acquired thrombosis. However, we also know that two thirds of deaths are caused by hospital-acquired thrombosis. Research also published by Lifeblood, shows that blood clot prevention in hospitals is not being given the financial backing of Government, despite being identified as a national priority for hospitals in 2010. This year the Government will spend just £192,000 on blood clot prevention, compared to the £24.5m to tackle hospital acquired infections it spent in 2009. The figures, uncovered in a series of parliamentary questions, highlight the ongoing underfunding of thrombosis prevention in hospitals.

Hospital-acquired blood clots alone, cause an estimated 25,000 preventable deaths each year. As the immediate cause of death in 10% of all patients who die in hospital1, blood clots are the number one greatest cause of preventable hospital mortality. This death rate is greater than the combined total of deaths from breast cancer, AIDS and traffic accidents and is two to three times greater than the total of all hospital acquired infections, estimated at 10,000 deaths per year.

The Government has highlighted hospital-acquired blood clot prevention as a priority for the NHS for the next five years. Yet, parliamentary questions recently published demonstrate that no money has been allocated centrally for the ‘Venous Thromboembolism Exemplar Centre Network’, a group set up by the Department of Health to allow hospitals to share best practice in thrombosis prevention. In addition, no funding has been earmarked for training and resources for those involved in the prevention of the condition, and no education has been stipulated for undergraduate medical students