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Originally Posted by ree-Xi
"An investigator's report released Monday found that 50-year-old Steven Sabock died in April after he at one point choked on medication and had been left sitting in a chair for close to a day at the facility about 50 miles southeast of Raleigh. Surveillance video showed hospital staff watching television and playing cards just a few feet away...
....It was not clear from the report exactly how Sabock died. The report states that he was in a hospital bed and later found unresponsive...
...The investigation released Monday said Sabock died in April after Cherry Hospital nurses left him unattended in a chair and did not feed him or help him to the bathroom."
So was he sitting or was he in the bed? While there is absolute evidence of a nursing shortage in this country, this is the worst story I have ever read.
Was the patient acutely ill or a danger to himself? Either way, do the nurses/CNAs do bed checks? What about meals - I know that if I ever miss a meal, when I am in the hospital the nurses log it. Patients are under the care - a ward of - the hospital.
When taking meds, nurses usually bring water make you take it in front of them, to make sure that you ARE taking them. I imagine if he was a mental patient, they would make him open his mouth to make sure he took it, right?
This is most disturbing. I have spent many months of my life in hospitals over my lifetime, with stays from overight in the ER to several weeks at a time. I have never gone longer than 2-3 hours without someone popping in and checking on me/my vitals. In fact, I get cranky when they wake me up to take vitals.
Anyway, the fact that other staff members - over FOUR SHIFTS - didn't take notice of him is appalling. The ward should be closed or re-staffed immediately, with proper oversight from the appropriate commissions.
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22hrs
No food
No vitals
No bathroom checks
No notification of next of kin probably.....
yupper...sounds like this problem and the one in Brooklyn needs to start being closely monitored
MY question is....if this happened in APRIL...why is this JUST NOW IN AUGUST being reported nationally?
Slow news day?
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