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wipes patient with urine soaked sheet but, There is no evidence of general incompetence.’

 
 


Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   on 07/27/2012 at 09:51 AM   
 
  1. Your not Old Peiper,Your VINTAGE STOCK.

    Posted by Rich K    United States   07/27/2012  at  12:55 PM  

  2. I just heard stories highly similar to this from the MIL, who spent 1 whole week at a Physical Therapy care center. Nurses and orderlies barely spoke English, all of them far more concerned with “thas no my yob” than with patient care, and most of them poorly trained in anything that they did do ... and the bedpan/incontinent patient situation there was quite similar to the one described here.

    And that was private care. In a brand new facility, a new center opened by a top rated PT place a few towns over.

    Look on the bright side Boomers: having spent all our money, and then having watched our savings and 401s evaporate, it will be public dole nursing homes for us. So we’ll be looking back on stories like this with envy. “Wow, he wiped her down ... with her own wet sheet, not someone else’s. That’s care, that is!”

    Posted by Drew458    United States   07/27/2012  at  01:09 PM  

  3. That’s sad that is too.
    I wonder if things were the same in another time but went unreported due to the technology of the times.

    Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   07/27/2012  at  01:14 PM  

  4. Most of the white nurses have gone to Canada, the US or Australia where the pay is better. Same with a lot of the doctors. The upshot is we import savages like this and assorted witch doctors. It is not going to be good getting old when you are dependant on turd world barbarians like this for health care.

    Posted by LyndonB    United Kingdom   07/28/2012  at  05:37 AM  

  5. How about this little recent gem from the United States:

    Two Phoenix hospitals are warning patients treated in 2009 and 2010 to take precautionary tests for hepatitis C after a former medical worker was accused of infecting more than 30 people with the virus at a New Hampshire hospital in the past year.

    Maryvale Hospital and Arizona Heart Hospital are scrambling to identify patients treated at the facilities during the time David Matthew Kwiatkowski worked there and who might potentially have been infected by him. They will mail certified letters within the next two weeks urging them to take tests for the virus, which can cause serious liver damage.

    Kwiatkowski, 32, worked as a radiology technician in the cardiac-catheterization labs at Maryvale Hospital from March 9 to June 27 in 2009, and Arizona Heart Hospital from March 22 to April 2 in 2010. He was a contract employee at both hospitals through a temporary medical-staffing agency, Springboard Healthcare Staffing and Search, which fired him for “unprofessional and unethical conduct,” a Springboard spokeswoman said.

    Described as a “serial infector” by the U.S. attorney in New Hampshire, Kwiatkowski is accused of taking syringes of the powerful anesthetic fentanyl, injecting himself and refilling contaminated syringes with saline. The syringes were later used on patients at a New Hampshire hospital where he worked between April 2011 and May this year.

    His surname name (David Matthew Kwiatkowski ) is almost as unpronouncible as our “dark-skinned” buddy but I think he Polish.

    Posted by New Jersey Yankee    Ireland   07/28/2012  at  09:11 AM  

  6. so the elf and safety rules only apply to the self employed not gov worker, well no surprise there!

    Posted by Chris Edwards    Canada   07/28/2012  at  09:52 AM  

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