No I can't. The job I am in means I am all over the hospital rather than in the maternity dep and I don't know any details of the patients.
I know when alerts are going out and I will get sent there when problems happen IF it is my turn. A bunch of people take turns though.
I can see how busy A+E is and how many seriously hurt people are coming in. I also talk to patients in the 5 minutes I am with them and I ask them how they are, they usually give some info about what happened to them but I don't know why it happened obviously. Is it a blood clot that caused them to faint? A drop in blood sugar?
I'm not a nurse either. That's what I mean by having no access to medical notes or anything like that. I only know how busy it is and how often alarms are going out.
It wouldn't be fair for me to try to gather stats on what I am seeing as I don't have a good baseline so whatever small amount of data i could gather woulfn't be worth much beyond what I have already said.
I've spoken with nurses however and they are all shocked at how busy the last year has been for the entire hospital - even the number of people falling then breaking an ankle or leg is through the roof!
Prof, he is only reporting on numbers of incidents where assistance is requested. One would be deaf and blind to fail to see that this happens, say, 10x (or whatever) that it happened in the past. If you were maintenance, and saw 10 crash carts per day, which go out over the loudspeaker, vs the 2 per day you used to see, you might come to the conclusion that something had changed lately.
No I can't. The job I am in means I am all over the hospital rather than in the maternity dep and I don't know any details of the patients.
I know when alerts are going out and I will get sent there when problems happen IF it is my turn. A bunch of people take turns though.
I can see how busy A+E is and how many seriously hurt people are coming in. I also talk to patients in the 5 minutes I am with them and I ask them how they are, they usually give some info about what happened to them but I don't know why it happened obviously. Is it a blood clot that caused them to faint? A drop in blood sugar?
Thank you so much for sharing your observations. It is not for nurses to keep statistics anyway.
I'm not a nurse either. That's what I mean by having no access to medical notes or anything like that. I only know how busy it is and how often alarms are going out.
It wouldn't be fair for me to try to gather stats on what I am seeing as I don't have a good baseline so whatever small amount of data i could gather woulfn't be worth much beyond what I have already said.
I've spoken with nurses however and they are all shocked at how busy the last year has been for the entire hospital - even the number of people falling then breaking an ankle or leg is through the roof!
Ok so a cleaner , clerk etc ? is making medical assumptions on causality in multifactorial settings by "walking around the hospital and seeing things"
Prof, he is only reporting on numbers of incidents where assistance is requested. One would be deaf and blind to fail to see that this happens, say, 10x (or whatever) that it happened in the past. If you were maintenance, and saw 10 crash carts per day, which go out over the loudspeaker, vs the 2 per day you used to see, you might come to the conclusion that something had changed lately.
I don't get what your post means?