very fit in the ICU

[Dogmama]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the cancer floor at the local hospital still talks about me when I was my Mom's advocate. To this day, if someone asks me if I am the Dr Daughter I have to restrain myself(but that's another story)...
KEEP BEING THE ADVOCATE,
DEMAND don't ask,
TALK to the Supervisor,
CALL the DR. and keep calling,
BE A PIA Monitors can be adjusted and alarms can be silenced but typically the charge nurse has zero power.
QUESTION, QUESTION and then QUESTION again
Who cares if they talk about you on break

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AND make sure that everybody who enters the room WASHES THEIR HANDS OR USES SANITIZER. My DH got wound MRSA and that really sux.

Another thing - they were going to transfer him to an SNF but I pitched a fit & they showed me how to change bandages using the sterile technique, do the IV for the vacomysin (MRSA medicine - the IV was a pic line & already in) and other things. I brought him home and his insurance company sent us bandages, medicine, the whole bit. They were probably thrilled that I saved them the $$ of an SNF. But really, after awhile you need to be home to heal. Hospitals & the like are not for sick people who need to recover!