Comments on: VIP patients http://nursespto.com/vip-patients/ Making our time off, pay off. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:35:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://nursespto.com/vip-patients/comment-page-1/#comment-524 Steve Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:54:56 +0000 http://nursespto.com/?p=1037#comment-524 I think healthcare is a lot like Orwell's Animal Farm: Everybody is equal-some are just more equal than others. I think healthcare is a lot like Orwell’s Animal Farm: Everybody is equal-some are just more equal than others.

]]> By: Change of Shift – Thanksgiving Edition // Emergiblog http://nursespto.com/vip-patients/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Change of Shift – Thanksgiving Edition // Emergiblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:27:00 +0000 http://nursespto.com/?p=1037#comment-478 [...] hits on a pet peeve of mine over at NursesPTO and that happens to be VIP Patients. Money can’t buy you love, but it sure can buy you some health care [...] [...] hits on a pet peeve of mine over at NursesPTO and that happens to be VIP Patients. Money can’t buy you love, but it sure can buy you some health care [...]

]]> By: uberVU - social comments http://nursespto.com/vip-patients/comment-page-1/#comment-474 uberVU - social comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:02:06 +0000 http://nursespto.com/?p=1037#comment-474 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by lipodoc: VIP almost always do poorly when you treat them differently :( NursesPTO http://bit.ly/5TT3Uq... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: lipodoc http://nursespto.com/vip-patients/comment-page-1/#comment-471 lipodoc Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:26:22 +0000 http://nursespto.com/?p=1037#comment-471 At the private hospital where I did part of my surgical training, there were always a handful of ultra-VIPs from Saudi Arabia, South America and here in the states. They had their own penthouse floor on the hospital, and the nurses up there all carried beepers so they could be summoned at will. But the routine interruptions that occured on a regular patient floor simply didn't happen on the VIP floor- you know, the routine vitals, the hanging of meds when they were supposed to be given, not when the patient wanted them, etc. Having seen it in person, I'll say that in my opinion, none of those people ever did as well as the plebians on the normal floors. When you break your routine when taking care of patients, when you make exceptions to the rule, only bad things will happen. At the private hospital where I did part of my surgical training, there were always a handful of ultra-VIPs from Saudi Arabia, South America and here in the states. They had their own penthouse floor on the hospital, and the nurses up there all carried beepers so they could be summoned at will. But the routine interruptions that occured on a regular patient floor simply didn’t happen on the VIP floor- you know, the routine vitals, the hanging of meds when they were supposed to be given, not when the patient wanted them, etc.
Having seen it in person, I’ll say that in my opinion, none of those people ever did as well as the plebians on the normal floors. When you break your routine when taking care of patients, when you make exceptions to the rule, only bad things will happen.

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