#Patient safety

[heardatmedschool]

“NEVER make a decision based on an EKG that doesn’t have name, date and hour.”

Y’know, for safety reasons.

[alwaysbewoke]

[olderandweirder]

My wife’s nurse manager said that it was important that they stop talking about “maximum staffing ratios” because it’s “unrealistic” to assume that hospitals can provide safe staffing ratios. The same nurse manager said that the nursing unit was “unproductive.”

This is a barefaced lie. Hospitals can easily provide good ratios and good work environments if they choose to do it.

Furthermore — is nursing supposed to be “productive?” It’s a human service, not an assembly line. The real irony here is that a nurse manager, the proximal end of a line of completely unproductive middle managers, seems to think that the problem is bedside nurses, not the ecosystem of useless sycophants that defines the chain of command in the average American hospital.

American Healthcare is unbelievably broken.

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[next-crisis]

Also, this applies in the US, but not in most other anglophone countries.

If you need this sort of help after treatment in a UK NHS hospital, PALS are the department to speak to (there's usually an office of theirs within each hospital). If you have problems with a GP surgery or dental practice, the first line of inquiry there should be the practice manager.

I can't speak to racial and ethnic marginalisation specifically, being marginalised in other ways, but in general PALS are much less hostile than if you go straight to a given doctor with whom you have problems.

(Edit: As with many things, the NHS is still a postcode lottery. PALS works well in most regions, but not all, so taking a third-party peer advocate along with you is still a good idea, if you can.)

I don't know how it'll work for any further countries, can people please add to this?

i think a LOT of you with chronic conditions should learn this one magical phrase to get your hospital doctor to shit his entire pants, which is leaving the room and saying "im going to go discuss your behavior with the ethics committee, i think you might need a reminder of what your job is"

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[heardatmedschool]

“I’ll be going to the bathroom to cry for a bit.”

OR nurse after the scrub tech opened the third (3rd!) contaminated osteosynthesis box of the morning.

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