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To: detective
as a hospital nurse, I no more have time to spend 30" feeding a pt than I have time to stop to go to the br.....they have laid off the aides for the most part and expect the RNS to do it all....so that means if I'm in an isolation room, there is no way I'm going to be there to feed Mr Smith or prevent Mrs Jones from climbing out of bed and breaking her hip, which is almost a death sentence....

we have extensive electronic charting to do, and have to scan all meds, and that takes an ungodly amt of time and that is just a small part of our job....

if you have an elderly family in the hospital, I'd advise you to be there as much as possible....like the old days...

7 posted on 03/27/2013 9:30:45 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry
But if a patient wasn't touching their food wouldn't you give IV nutrition or insert a feeding tube, or even NG feeding?

Also if the NHS is doing labs daily signs of starvation would be spotted rather quickly.

8 posted on 03/27/2013 9:38:13 PM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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