Paticia R Ford Review of National Park Medical Center
As a nurse, I'm very familiar with the operations ...
As a nurse, I'm very familiar with the operations of a hospital and nursing unit. Just WOW smh. I witnessed the worst nursing care imaginable. The unconventional nursing care by more LPNs than RNs was less than standard. The CNAs were overworked and I guess the nurses were too because they seem to not be able to keep up with the demands of the patients. It took no less than 30 minutes to get assistance in any form. There is no hourly rounding on patients. You might not see any staff for about three hours or until it was time for meds.
Like another reviewer mentioned, the nurse never "knew" anything. Reading the chart and following protocols were clearly missing. I couldn't even tell if basic nursing was properly being implemented. I saw med pushers and vital sign checkers. Everything else was up in the air. The only good thing about this hospital was the allowance of one visitor. And boy are the patients glad to see a familiar face. You don't have to be a nurse to see the complete lack of quality, safe care in this facility. The patients could easily pick up on it.
I must add this...small world. Fast forward to a week later, a coworker in TN brings up how nice her visit to Lake Hamilton was. We soon are discussing her mother-in-law's experience at National Park. Well damn, we have very similar stories. Now that's very sad that on different nursing units that the care was equally horrible.
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