Or in my case go to the bathroom and cry.” There have been reports of contract nurses crossing the picket line for a single shift and refusing to go back because “it was so horrible in there.” One wrote: “Hit the floor, learn as you go and drown. But he warned, “DO NOT SEEK CARE HERE AT THIS TIME.”īut the most damning testimony came from some of the replacement nurses themselves. Mark was careful to point out that he and his wife had been patients at St. It honestly feels unsafe in there.”Īnd after spending four hours waiting to get into a room, Mark described his experience as “a visit from hell.” He said he went an entire evening without seeing a nurse and that he was not given his medication the night before, not provided any fluids, and not given any explanation for new medications. Tunie described her hospital experience as “cold, impersonal, assembly line environment. “The patient proceeded to fall on her head and sustained a pretty awful laceration.” The patient was confused and when she began “yelling out” the nurse closed the door to her room. Nicole posted a story about an 89-year-old patient who was admitted with a cervical neck fracture. ![]() “I recently gave birth at Saint Vincent and my whole experience was HORRIBLE…” “This place is legit the worst hospital…” When she posted her experience on social media, hospital staff, who had been almost invisible, suddenly appeared to ask her to take her comments down.ĭiixiie wrote about a similarly bad experience. Kimberly wrote that she asked three times to have her IV line changed without any response. I started reading horror stories online from patients who felt they were treated poorly. But I never wanted to see patient care suffer just to prove the point. Since the strike began on March 8, I have been a strong supporter of the nurses’ efforts to set improved patient safety standards. That experience caused me to look further. ![]() It turned out they spoke to a cleaning person who was kind enough to get them the help that they needed. When they did need something, they stopped someone in the hallway and asked for help. When my sister was finally admitted to a room, they hardly saw a nurse. Vincent Hospital.Ī family member told me that she saw patients sitting and lying on hospital beds in the hallways. ![]() I really didn’t plan to write another column about the St.
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