they aren’t secure, you should try and supervise at all times! yes staff are trained but we are human and mistakes can and will happen

yeah sorry for your experience. i know, some staff are great, some not so much.

I would be complaint to the hospital. You should expect nothing but consisitant professionalism from all of them

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  • • mamavon replied
    • 31 Jan 2016 , 12:07 am

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  I really hate complaining but I don’t see how they can fix a problem if people do not complain. I might wait till my child is fully healed first as we are still trying to recover from the surgery. Having a child sore, swollen and tired from surgery is so hard.

I have had multiple experiences In multiple hospitals. I am convinced many of the nurses are only interested in seeing how little work they can get away with doing. They don’t care about patient welfare. And many are idiots. Once, I gave a nurse my four week old baby to hold (I was the patient), and said “I’ve just fed her, she might spit up”. When my daughter spit up less than a teaspoon full of milk, the nurse screamed so loudly, other nurses came running.

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  • • mamavon replied
    • 29 Jan 2016 , 11:46 pm

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  Some of the nurses – especially the night nurses – are exactly as you say.

Thank you for sharing and glad your child ops went well. Hospitals are unavoidable , I mean who wants to go -no-one !. Normally children are grouped together in the rooms together so very surprised she was alone . I know if it is a private room normally they are alone and it could be a blessing too without the noise and bother of other people. Normally there are shift nurses /docs there a lot of times just the one person . Maybe bring this issue up at the time and ask of this is normal and what security measures are in place. If I am curious enough I will ask so I wont worry too much . I am sure they are covered for all circumstances .

Thanks for sharing this interesting story. Mine was in hospital at age 4. I insisted I stay the night and was given a highly uncomfortable chair. She was in for 2 nights. I was glad I was there – nothing in particular happened, but she wasn’t used to being alone and I could talk her through what was being done to her and raft of other related questions. I agree totally on your staging concerns!

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  • • mom165081 replied
    • 28 Jan 2016 , 2:46 pm

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  Forgot to say – I hope everything was fine and your child is all better now.

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    • • mamavon replied
      • 28 Jan 2016 , 3:09 pm

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    We are home now and she is feeling better at home than in hospital. I can also care for her better at home. I feel so restricted at the hospital. At home I can adapt meals, snacks and drinks which she like so she can eat better. Being able to sleep better at home is a real plus. Those plastic mattresses and pillows are so uncomfortable. I also think that my child should have been in a paediatric ward rather than a general ward. I just wasn’t comfortable having her in a single room with adults in all the other single rooms. Anyone could have just walked off the street and just enter her room/ward. I reckon I would be worried about my own safety if I was in a similar single room and I am an adult!!