Nancy Hale

Review of Northern Nevada Medical Center

I was admitted from the ER for a couple of issues....

I was admitted from the ER for a couple of issues. The ER Dr assured me they got my prescription list from my pharmacy. There were several issues but the two most concerning was 1. they messed up my heart medicine. I take it in the morning and at night. When the nurse came in the morning she didn't have my one of my heart medications, digoxin, and said they were only going to give it to me at night. She also was insisting I take a pill without having ate that I'm supposed to take with food. When the Dr came to my room an hour or so later and I asked why he changed my heart medication, he said he did not. He didn't check charts or anything just stood in the doorway smiling like an idiot. I was not there because of a issue with my heart.
2. The other issue was the night previous; the aid read the food label and told me it didn't have artificial sweeteners I ate it and got a migraine. The Dr had not ordered my migraine medicine. The nurse didn't want to disturb the Dr because they already went home. This is the same thing that happened to me when I was admitted 5 years ago and why I was insistent about getting my medications straight with the ER Dr. It was a different medication then, but once I was on the floor the nurse said all medicine would have had to have been ordered in the ER because there wasn't a Dr to order medications at night.
They are scarily understaffed, and the some of the staff they do have either doesn't care or isn't properly trained.