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Missed nursing care: View from the hospital bed (Part Two) 

While traveling, a respected nurse educator—a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing—finds herself in a U.S. hospital, alone and far from home, for seven horrific days and nights, and lives to tell about it. A side benefit of the unplanned experience? It corroborated her research on missed nursing care.
By Beatrice J. Kalisch 

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Thanks, Ms. Kalisch,, 8/11/2010
by: Annette Jenkins, MSN 		Rating: 5
It's troublesome to know this happened to you but it does shed a light on a problem I have experienced professionally as a nursing supervisor. Thanks for the article. I hope you are better. It is a scarey experience being hospitalized and especially knowing what should happen in a patients' progression of care, being ignored, poor outcomes and knowing fellow nurses are not doing the right thing right by their patient. Regards, Annette Jenkins, MSN, RN Thanks,
Mixed Feelings, 8/11/2010
by: Dr Steven D Hobbs, Ph.D., R.N., BC, CEN, CCRN 		Rating: 5
As an ED Nurse, my first thought when I read "I suggested an EKG concerned staff were unaware..." all I could think of is that dread we all have of having a nurse or physician as a patient. However, it does sound that the care you received was sub-standard. I would like to say it was because the nurses were overwhelmed. That is the case I often see. Perhaps they were or were not. I do hope you shared your article with the CNO of the facility. I am sharing your article with all my co-workers and students. Steven D. Hobbs, Ph.D., R.N, BC (Hawai'i)
Saddened but in Agreement, 8/15/2010
by: Elaine S Williams, RN, BSN, CGRN 		Rating: 5
As a nurse with 37 years of experience....I have watched the focus being changed to quantity rather than quality. The "bean counters" have set the standard for nursing care by the ever increasing emphasis on "turn over time" and "get em in and get em out" mentality. When you put a time limit/pt in an ED,out pt area OR regular floor, you effectively create a priority of care list where the hygiene, ambulation and emotional support issues get put to the bottom of that list. Hence, the beginning of bad nursing practice "habits". I have actually seen low level managers and peers punish good nurses because by giving the care they were taught to give....they were "too slow"!!! If we do not admit and correct this problem, we will all be afraid to "become the patient". I too will share this with my co-workers. Thank you for an eye opener of an article! Elaine S Williams,RN,BSN,CGRN
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