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If you had the power to make changes in our healthcare system, what would they be?
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Posted 3 months ago If you could change anything about the healthcare system in general or practices where you work, what would they be? A Proud Redneck Lovin' the Country Life |
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| Posted 3 months ago 1. Our patients would not have to wait 2 hrs for a 15 min appointment, with a Doctor who doesn't really care 2. There would be no such issue as a pre-exsisting problem, so insurances couldn't deny your claim 3. My dad could take the pill form of Chemo and not the IV form... 4. Private insurance wouldn't be so hard to get or be too expensive
Taylor's Wife, Navy Wife Proud and Strong!
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| Posted 3 months ago All good changes and none of them are extreme. Doesn't make sense, does it? I'm sorry your Dad has to take Chemo in any form. A Proud Redneck Lovin' the Country Life |
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| Posted 3 months ago laura59 says ...
Taylor's Wife, Navy Wife Proud and Strong!
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| Posted 3 months ago Medicare would pay for a annual exam every year, instead of every 2 yrs..... Taylor's Wife, Navy Wife Proud and Strong!
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| Posted 3 months ago No one would do without. Everyone would have the medicine that they need. evry hospital room would be a private room Ginny |
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| Posted 3 months ago EVERYONE should have insurance no matter what. I like the private rooms too CDNURSE. When I was sick last year and in a hospital while on vacation in North Carolina, all the rooms there were private. They told me it's the law there. Shocking, because in New York it doesn't work that way. My dad was in the hospital one time for kidney stones and he was in a room with 3!! What comes next, BUNK BEDS!!! LMAO *Samantha*
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| Posted 3 months ago Don't say bunk beds too loud; it might give someone ideas. A new hospital was built and opened last August in my little town. The one thing that was good for the pts was private rooms. At the old building, only a couple of private rooms and if admissions got high, pts were moved in their beds into and out of rooms anytime, day or night, private room or not, to accommodate the incoming pts and try to match up diagnoses. I still remember one very nice lady at 3 am telling me she had paid for a private room when I had had to go tell her she was getting a roommate. You all think I have alot to say on my posts? This is nothing compared to those night moves. The rest of the story continues when families came to sit with their mom, dad, etc. the next morning and they weren't in the room they had left them in the night before. They expressed their displeasure, too. A Proud Redneck Lovin' the Country Life |
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| Posted 3 months ago There would be no sabotage among staff. Nurse to patient ratio on Med-Surg would be no more than 5patients to one nurse. ICU 1-1 Staffing would be perfect at all times. All doctors at all times would be held accountable. I could go on. Deb
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| Posted 3 months ago The hospital I worked at in NC had all private rooms and had been that way for quite a while. There were two other hospitals I did my nursing clinicals at in NC that still had some semi-private rooms. I haven't heard that it is a law though. I don't know about the hospital I work at now. I work in the OR and never make it out to the floors. Maybe I need to find out. |
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| Posted 3 months ago This is great Karen Swift Jackson RN |
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| Posted 3 months ago YIKES...I WENT TO CLICK THE THUMBS UP AND MY MOUSE ROLLED OVER THE THUMBS DOWN :( HOW DO YOU FIX IT. ANYWAY, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GREAT POST!!!!! THUMBS UP!! :) |
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| Posted 3 months ago here in the philippines.. omg!! there are lots to change.. here are my wishes.. 1st: that nurses dont need to work more than 8 hours and if ever they did, can they at least be given an additional payment not just a thankyou from the hospital?! 2nd: patients ratio will be 2 patient:1 nurse not 1 ward:1nurse.. god! how can we give our best nursing care if we have 50 patient to attend to every shift?! lastly: may the public/other private hospitals learned how to drape those mothers who were about to give birth.. iv seen alot during my clinical duty, those women spreads their legs, showing everything to the world.. can they have some privacy please?! they are not lab rats for students to look at! poor ladys.. they dont know they're being studied.. spoil me cause im worth it =) |
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| Posted 2 months ago Chiara: Kill that mouse. The chances of a good nurse to patient ratio is something to dream about. When I worked in the hospital, nurses were put on call if the census was down a little. Patients' condition/diagnosis were apparently not taken into consideration. What made the difference was BUDGET!! Nurses can't get a break and the patients pay the ultimate price. A Proud Redneck Lovin' the Country Life |