http://nursespto.com/patient-pulls-tubes/ Making our time off, pay off. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:35:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nursespto.com/patient-pulls-tubes/comment-page-1/#comment-884 lipodoc Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:50:26 +0000 http://nursespto.com/?p=1115#comment-884 Hmmm.....maybe we need better communication between nurses and doctors when the patients start getting antsy. Some tubes are obviously of critical importance - chest tubes, t-tubes, ventriculostomies - and since the doc's not there to stand vigil, we probably all need to work together to make sure the patient is sedated and/or restrained and/or educated to prevent disaster. What about recruiting families to help? Or to have the hospital hire sitters for one-on-one observation? We talk about costs in healthcare, but these are preventable medical errors that a little money spent on the front end could prevent. And almost all of these mistakes are costly. Hmmm…..maybe we need better communication between nurses and doctors when the patients start getting antsy. Some tubes are obviously of critical importance – chest tubes, t-tubes, ventriculostomies – and since the doc’s not there to stand vigil, we probably all need to work together to make sure the patient is sedated and/or restrained and/or educated to prevent disaster. What about recruiting families to help? Or to have the hospital hire sitters for one-on-one observation? We talk about costs in healthcare, but these are preventable medical errors that a little money spent on the front end could prevent. And almost all of these mistakes are costly.

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