a funny but sad nursing home story....

[katgrl2003]

My partner, in his part time job as a medic on a fire department, went on a call to a rehab hospital (a glorified NH). They tried resuscitating her, but nothing worked - tube, IV drugs, nothing. They got permission to stop the code, and went back to station. At shift change, the tones dropped for the same hospital, same room, for a cardiac arrest.

Turns out night shift didn't tell day shift that there was a dead pt in one of the rooms. A nurse walked in, saw the pt, started CPR. LOTS of people got in trouble over that one.

[MeekoBB]

She agreed with me, wrote up the nurse and pointed out that there was a chart in the break room on proper hiemlich maneuvers and that the nurse should study it.

LOVE IT!!!

I was dispatched to a facility for choking...got there, there is another one of those retarded CNAs trying to shove mac&cheese down the patient's throat who is also laying supine on the bed. Now I have a tendency for speaking before thinking and immediately I said, "Here's a thought! Stop force feeding the poor man and sit him up and he won't be gagging on the food!"

[Richard B the EMT]

Turns out night shift didn't tell day shift that there was a dead pt in one of the rooms. A nurse walked in, saw the pt, started CPR. LOTS of people got in trouble over that one.

I do hope the folks in trouble were the ones working the "hospital", not the FD/EMS responders. Can you clarify, please?

[GBFDEMS174]

Has anyone ever gone on a call to a nursing home for an unresponsive with CPR in progress and you get there the NH nurses aren't doing CPR

We had it one night actually I think the only reason why they weren't doing CPR is because rigermortise was setting in, but still if we get dispatched for the unresponsive WITH CPR IN PROGRESS I expect to see you doing CPR

[mattlott]

pearl of wisdom "you can not give lasix the patient is incontinent she will wet herself" --LPN not to be name facility not be named. As you hear the frothing pulmonary edma from across the room.

[Just Plain Ruff]

Has anyone ever gone on a call to a nursing home for an unresponsive with CPR in progress and you get there the NH nurses aren't doing CPR

We had it one night actually I think the only reason why they weren't doing CPR is because rigermortise was setting in, but still if we get dispatched for the unresponsive WITH CPR IN PROGRESS I expect to see you doing CPR

reminds me of the calls from our dispatchers telling us that the patient is a full code. we get there and the patient is sitting up in the wheelchair. What dispatch meant was that the patients code status was full code.

[MeekoBB]

Has anyone ever gone on a call to a nursing home for an unresponsive with CPR in progress and you get there the NH nurses aren't doing CPR

We had it one night actually I think the only reason why they weren't doing CPR is because rigermortise was setting in, but still if we get dispatched for the unresponsive WITH CPR IN PROGRESS I expect to see you doing CPR

Where is Devin? He has a short tale from one of his books just like this...

[Just Plain Ruff]

Who's devin?

[MeekoBB]

Medic2588....geez ruff, you should have known, he's always throwing his shameless plugs about his books around.

[katgrl2003]

I do hope the folks in trouble were the ones working the "hospital", not the FD/EMS responders. Can you clarify, please?

Oh yeah, it was the nurses at the hospital. The night nursing manager was busted to floor nurse, and I don't remember what happened to the room nurse. There were about three or four people that were either demoted or canned over that one.