in hospital

[Jaybird19]

my stay in hospital recently was not one i would recommend . i knew more about taking bp than the nurse in the night team .

I do find it is interesting to meet people from other parts of the world and appreciate that they have come to help . but t his was different.

re bp reading--- bp reading was something i knew more about that this nurse . he wrapped round my arm too too loosely and so machine recycled itself 5 times before he listened to me and tried to fit the arm band closer and the n we had 120 followed by 180 and i found out later that was the recorded entry was133 , well where did that come from >?

i always ask what the reading is whoever takes it, but that really blotted my copy book ! didnt see that nurse again .he was probably on another ward but i do hope his leader taught him better .

[Patk1]

That's not acceptable Jaybird x

[sassy59]

That’s not great Jaybird and I understand how you feel. Pete had a night team on the ward when he had sepsis and one nurse spilt the pee bottle over Pete’s slippers. It was an awful time.

Take care xxxx

[Alberta56]

Oh dear, that is worrying. Are they really hiring agency nurses whose qualifications are dubious? I'mglad you escaped nscathed.

[garshe]

Last time I was in A&E an African dr.or nurse Well dont know for sure what he was as he wasnt supposed to be attending to me. He came to my bed drew curtains which I felt uncomfortable with and tried to take my BP the band kept falling off. He did other things I felt he shouldn't have like take blood when it had already been taken. When my Doctor came back I told him and he was fuming. Asked me to point him out and he was taken off the ward He was trying to take my BP with a child arm band and thats why it kept falling off . xxSheila 💕

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[Stratos20]

That’s just not acceptable. I hope you reported this.

[eleanordigby]

I’ve said before, not all nurses are kind and competent. I’ve met some really mean, careless ones, who pay scant attention to things like infection control etc. Thankfully they’re in a minority but they do tend to be agency nurses, often on night shifts. I don’t know how they pass the checks but the nhs is so short staffed it seems it’ll take anyone! Also, nurse training in some other countries doesn’t always match our own

[TomTitTot in reply to eleanordigby]

I’m always glad that I’m conscious, no matter how poorly I feel as I’ve had nurses who would definitely have done me a mischief. 😳

[Kcn3]

When my daughter was in hospital, during the evening, my daughter had a panic attack as her oxygen dropped. She needed her oxygen. A night shift'foreign' nurse, my daughters words, didnt understand her at 1st, then handed her an oxygen tube, not attached to anything!!! My daughter had extremely good hearing at later good hear this nurse chatting to another nurse. It would appear she wadnt even fully qualified!!

[Izb1]

After reading your post and all the others it seems we need to complain otherwise nothing will change and somebody could end up dying through a sad lack of proper care x

[alcgb]

I have severe COPD & had a hospital admission for necrotic pneumonia. It was the worst experience of my life. The weekends with bank nurses were the worst. One nurse didn’t even know what a nebuliser was & tried to give me oxygen. Another nurse tried to give me morphine in error. Initially, I was in a room in my own on a respiratory ward with a toilet which didn’t flush. It took four days before the Estates team came out to fix it & 30 minutes later, it broke again. Then I was moved to a medical ward with doctors who were not respiratory specialists. They were constantly contradicting themselves & changing my medication. It was a complete nightmare. The second time I needed an admission, I refused to go into hospital & eventually they gave me IV antibiotics at home. I will never go into hospital again if I can possibly avoid it.