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[Val & Frank]

Just had a look in, they seem to be a warm friendly group. Legs has his work cut out looking after the non technical/computer illiterate amongst them.

No arguing yet, that's because they are well,I leave that to your imagination. What some of them never grasped on here is it takes two to tango, or maybe three. You can't argue or fall out with yourself, well maybe you can if you don't understand the argument !!!!!.

One point I grasped early looking through the posts, I know I have a better understanding of the world than a lot of my detractors. Some of you may remember when I posted about some angels (nurses) despatching people to heaven, so far this week it is a total of 4, 1 on trial. The hospital with all the C diff cases, they either stood by or remained silent. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying all, but a lot have stood by whilst the walls have fallen down. Maybe it's all belonging to the same union all almost all, I don't know what I do know is it appaling.

Frank

 

[GrahamSouthBrum]

Hi Frank,

What I fail to understand is why hospital staff are allowed to wear their uniforms out side of the hospital.

My wife works in the food trade, if she left her dept. in her overalls she would be sacked.

Whilst saying this I am in no way having a go at hospital workers, but I feel that management are at fault for allowing this practice to continue.

G.

 

[Val & Frank]

I wonder about that to Graham. Is it management or is it lazy people who can't bother to change ???

Frank

 

[Meister]

I think that a lot is to do with managers who either ........ dont actually know how to manage or ....... are far to weak to put their foot down.

Steve

 

[Val & Frank]

Is that not the same for senior nursing staff as well ?? It looks like the whole system is in melt down.

Frank

 

[Essexeddie]

My wife is in hospital now. On my visit yesterday one of the patients had a day out to the zoo!

Well, I cant think of a worse place to go except a sewer farm.

She returned and laid on her bed in her jeans.

The nutters are running the asylum.

Edd

 

[ThePlotter]

Some will be aware that my wife has been suffering with cancer (now recovered)however she was admitted to hospital with an infection and due to a low white blood count(normal for chemo patients)she was in a room of her own on barrier nursing,well guess what she caught C-Diff which took three months to get rid of.So how did she get that well the nurses went in did not wash hands or wear gloves but worst of all the guy came in to clean the telly/phone thing that all the beds have these days.Now they are touch screen so infection will be on the screen,he cleans them all going from bed to bed and spreading the infection as he goes.He just walked in the room with no precautions and not a word was said even though the sister was in the room at the time.

 

[Val & Frank]

I rest my case your Honour the Lunatics have indeed taken over the Asylum. I may seem a little bitter on this subject, my Brother in Law was in for Chemo, and he died from a Hospital Acquired Infection. Not the illness he was being treated for.

Frank

 

[Jo-AnneFairway5402010]

my son lucas was born 14 premature 5 years ago and caught mrsa when he was 4 weeks old. the hospital in?. i only seen a cleaner once in the month i was there cleaning intensive care area. after a month he was sent nearer home for another 4 months then i seen them cleaning everyday.

he caught it behind his ear i spotted it and they swabbed it on the friday sent him back to walgrave hospital on the saturday morning and by the afternoon the 1st hosp rang walsgrave to say hes got mrsa.

you dont realise at the time how serious it is until later when you read that people are dying from it.

lucas has just had another op and stayed in for 8 days i stayed with him the whole time. i took my matron gel in invented by leslie ash. it kills mrsa, mssa, ecoli etc etc. me and lucas wore it all the time in there.

jo-anne

 

[Robert_374242026]

Just come out of hospital for new shoulder joint(Copeland resurface)and soon as it has healed having new knee done.Now as many of you know that when you agree that you might get just about anything which is going at the moment you tend to forget about the trauma one is about to go through for that op let alone the bugs that are around.Still i want to carry on caravanning so hears to the next time.

 

[Darce]

Hi Plotter

Sorry to hear about your wife - trust she is getting on well.

We had exactly the same experience when my son was in Southampton Gen some years ago with a very badly broken ankle (fixed superbly by a RN Surgeon who was good at this op because service personnel who prefer to jump out of planes with parachutes before they land often have similar injuries)

The guy that serviced the TV/Telephone/patient rip off/money making device just went into the isolation ward that had a lady with MRSA and then came straight out and without washing his hands touched all the units on the ward.

We just stood there stunned and when I mentioned it to the Nurse she just shrugged and said that the Hospital had no jurisdiction over these people.

The rot set in when the old style Matrons where done away with because they worked on the principle of Barrier Nursing where the possibility of infection patient to patient was reduced as far as is humanly possible.

Stopping al that and getting rid of such expertise was madness.

Such organisms are opportunistic and the lunatics running the asylum gave them the opportunity.

BSE is another example. Herbivores do not eat meat. So what do we do to improve production? Feed Herbivores meat and so break the species barrier.

So we gave an organism the opportunity to flourish.

And now the nutters want to place organs from animals (pigs as they are so similar to us) into humans. Madness

All it takes is one latent virus that causes pigs no problem to mutate slightly so that it can run riot within our systems and we could have a VERY serious problem. Because once exposed to us, it could "learn" how to pass from one to another.

Such things will always happen when those running such institutions are more interested in hitting "targets", whatever those targets are, rather than looking at what is best for the patients and us all as a whole.

 

[Essexeddie]

Just back from the daily hospital visit and witnessed a nurse mop up some spilt urine off the floor with a paper towel with no gloves on,

and no she did not wash her hands afterwards.

What can we expect.

Edd

 

[Essexeddie]

Today was a blinder. Aparently a patient opposite my wife in hospital is receiving treatment for a leg ulcer. They are useing maggots in the dressing.

Anyway the maggots got out and where all over the bed. The two nurses [ african ] cleaned it all up and changed the bed.

They just screwed up the bed covering and threw it all in the corner and went off duty.

This was left unnoticed untill maggots where found all over the floors and in the toilets.

My wife said it was pandemonium, all the furniture and beds had to be moved around to hunt for the loose maggots.

I dont know how but they think they have found them all.

She is having to stay in because she now has an infection.

Be glad to get her out of there.

Edd

 

[Robert_374242026]

Today was a blinder. Aparently a patient opposite my wife in hospital is receiving treatment for a leg ulcer. They are useing maggots in the dressing.

Anyway the maggots got out and where all over the bed. The two nurses [ african ] cleaned it all up and changed the bed.

They just screwed up the bed covering and threw it all in the corner and went off duty.

This was left unnoticed untill maggots where found all over the floors and in the toilets.

My wife said it was pandemonium, all the furniture and beds had to be moved around to hunt for the loose maggots.

I dont know how but they think they have found them all.

She is having to stay in because she now has an infection.

Be glad to get her out of there.

Edd

The thing is did anyone inform the managment about the nurses, unless these things are not brought to notice to the top people it will carry on to our detriment. As i said in my other comment i have just come out of hospital and became aware whilst there that i could not fault the cleaners with their daily rounds and the nursing staff likewise.

 

[Essexeddie]

Yes the two nurses mentioned had letters waiting for them when they came back on duty.

Apart from the issues mentioned my wife has received excellent treatment, and a successful major operation.

Cant fault that.

Edd