I hope you weren't the nurse/captain I had a discussion with as to why he wasn't getting pennicillen for the pneumonia (bacterial)instead of Koolaid! Of course, I was young and foolish then....a newlywed more concerned about my husband than Army rules and regulations!
"I hope you weren't the nurse/captain I had a discussion with as to why he wasn't getting pennicillen for the pneumonia (bacterial)instead of Koolaid!"
I just noticed this thread tonight. When my husband was in OCS in 1968, I worked as an RN at the hospital at Ft. Benning. The head nurse was a captain. When a Vietnam injured patient asked me to get him a pitcher of water, I did....no problem. The captain reprimanded me...she said that as long as a patient had one leg to hop on, they get their own water....true story. Pretty sad.
And at Ft. Dix hospital, in 1979, my 9 year old daughter was admitted with a collapsed lung. She was to have a respiratory therapist come in two or three times a day to administer treatments with an IPPB machine. I can't remember how long I waited before I complained that no one ever showed up to give her a treatment. I was furious, so I asked them to bring me a machine and show me how to use it, which they did. The doctor was amazed how quickly she recovered. (Ha! I wonder why.)