The notion that a Nurse would not know how to provide proper care for a ‘trach’ seems impossible to me.
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I have a friend who is/was (don’t know if she retired yet) a trauma nurse for years, was put on the floor, and pulled a trach out. It was different than one she was trained on, ripped the person’s esophagus and they nearly bled to death.
When my son had surgery for his shoulder, the nurses couldn’t figure out how to use his ice machine. We kept telling them, it needs water, the ice won’t go through the machine, but the ice cools the water. And they couldn’t figure out how to get him to stop vomiting from the pain pill. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ And of course they were heck bent on him going 💩. Hmmm, no food in stomach for 2 days. Sick from anesthesia and pain pills.
I finally got some soup, soda crackers, and a coke. He got that down. I told him to go to the bathroom and sit for 5. He did. He got a pain pill down, we got discharged.
So.. do I think nurses can mess things up? Yes.
It all seemed strange to me. Of course I got used to it. I had to mostly do as I was ordered. Hospitals are a lot like the Military. I was a lowly Private, while the Docs were the Generals.
The rankings of the different Roles are not so obvious as they are in the Military. Some Nurses are like NCOs, others like Field Grade Officers. You simply cannot know without spending some time amongst them.
My son, an RN case manager, is coming to beat you up! 😀 Well, maybe to just cajole you a bit. He catches such screw ups daily - it is his job!
To err is human, to forgive divine. Unfortunately, nurses can't afford to 'err' very much - but they are human.