Nurse turns off life support 'by mistake'

Thinking about the poor level of nursing care in this situation, this reminds me of one of the Nurse Carers that goes to a neighbour of mine to help cook meals, put her to bed etc.

My neighbour is house bound as both of her legs have been amputated, one of the Nurses that visits is disgusting, she is grossly overweight, smokes and when I have spoken to her on the odd occasion, she stinks. I have seen her sitting in her car before visiting, smoking and eating junk food. There are dirty packets all over the seats etc.

I really do feel sorry for my neighbour that she has to rely on this Nurse who is quite frankly disgusting.
 
Telescopi said:
To be perfectly honest it isn't economically viable to put a plaster on some of the benefit sponging chavs in our society - they have no economic output so any medical intervention is economically unviable.

What price would your perfect society put on your life?
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There's a balance to be struck, which lies somewhere between putting a 2p plaster on a cut and spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on someone who is already dead or has no quality of life anyway.
 
Stretch said:
Not personally no, but they employ people to make sure it's done correctly.

They are ultimately responsible for making sure the business take the necessary step to fulfill its obligations.
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no the person who's job it is to confirm the qualifications of the nurses is responsible.
 
Berserker said:
I'm sure a lot of nurses don't. They just don't put themselves in sole control of life support equipment they don't understand.



What's that got to do with anything? Doesn't take a foreigner to breed incompetence of this degree. In fact, it's more likely they weren't foreign.

Nurse has been suspended (rightly so) pending investigation. Innocent until proven and all that, but at the very least the nurse needs to be barred from ever nursing again (it clearly wasn't a one-off incident so that rules out accidental cause). Then the managers need to be fined/jailed for not acting on the problems sooner.
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They have a surplus of ineptitude in those kind of countries, which spills over to here. There's a reason they work cheap.
 
Almost as shocking as the complete failure here is the cost of the care - £450,000 per year - how on earth does it cost that much?
 
Gee, people seem suprised. This kind of stuff happens much more often than the news would have you believe. Sure, they've "put in safeguards" - for one very specific situation. Probably something like "Don't turn off the quadroplegics lifesupport". Someone will have to pay with their life for each possible mistake before "safeguards" are put in place.

No but seriously, the amount of negligent deaths in the NHS is shocking. Here they just focus on one, but it is but one of many. Don't see why people are outraged - people should be outraged about the totality of negligent deaths and not a single one - and people should demand some heads to roll as well as the end of the extreme corruption within the NHS.

You do know there are leaders within the NHS who aren't even qualified medical doctors, yet they make the treatment policy decisions that doctors have to abide by?
 
kwerk said:
I can't be the only one who read the title and instantly thought "let me guess, third world import nurse". Then had their thoughts confirmed by the story.
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I didn't. I read the thread title and imagined her unplugging the machine to plug in a vacuum cleaner. Or iron. Where she was from had nothing to do with my thinking. Only that she sported a vagina.
 
Having been in a position of vulnerability and a certain degree of helplessness myself, whilst under the care of nurses who i felt were being neglegent and ignoring my pleas, and knowing how that feels - considering this guy could only click his tongue and the neglegance far surpassed anything I have experienced, I can not have enough sympathy for the guy and can barely imagine the emotion and stress he experienced during that time.
 
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