My son and his wife are both RNs. They will NOT allow any member of their family to be alone in the hospital - not even the hospital in which they work(ed)(my son was severely injured on active duty and can no longer do the physical work of nursing). My daughtger-in-law checked out of work to stay with my daughter rather than leave my daughter alone.
I am a Hospice RN now after 6 years in a hospital.
NO WAY will any member of my family be alone in a hospital - EVER.
Understaffing, new grad nurses, foreign nurses & MDs that can’t speak understandable English, apathetic support staff.... you get the picture.
My F-i-L had to have surgery, and postop he was on my unit. I insisted that a family member stayed with him when I wasn’t there, and I personally assigned the staff that cared for him. The PTB didn’t like it very much, but I just told them flat out that that was how it was going to be - and if they didn’t like it, they surely wouldn’t like the full-page ad I was going to take out in the local paper spilling ALL the beans!
Hospital is now a place to avoid if at all possible.