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| Originally Posted by Odin So DO NOT BLAME THE NURSES
WITHOUT THE NECESSARY RESOURCES THEY ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN!
DO NOT BLAME THE NURSES - LOOK AT THE LARGER PICTURE. |
sorry but my experiences are contary to this, over the past 18 months i have spent a lot of time at the hotel nhs, and i must admit that i did not like what i saw, i suffered at the hands of mrsa and cdiff, about 6 months apart, i was lucky, these incidents nearly finished me off and were making me feel worse than the reason i was there, the cdiff incident vcery nearly finished me off, i was lucky i was in pieces, and this was entirely the fault of the nursing staff, the ward i was on was entirly down to nursing staff not doing their jobs, c diff was rife on the ward unyet they made no atempt to maintain hygene wash and gel between patient, handled contaminated beding without glovces and aprons, refused to move contaminated patients left dirty beding on the ward it was a recipe for disaster, my observations were that the basic fundamentals were overlooked and it is the staff at ground level who are to blame for this, most of my observations were pure laziness
when i had mrsa they blamed me for bringing it in with me despite there being an outbreak on the ward, and basic principles being neglected, so sorry as a patient i have observed these things many times and its easy to say that people are carrying it, if people were doing the basics it would be a lot hearder to spread, i am due in hospital again soon and one of the major concerns i have is not making out due to infections its had me twice and third time lucky as they say...
oh and the recent media coverage made me aware that the infection rates that were published were only for an over 65 age group and didnt cover younger patients..