"disturbing"

Anything else?

As a senior health professional I was very disturbed by the enviroment and the nursing care my elderly mother had been subjected to at this hospital - she was admitted with a ? CVA 24/7/13 , had a CT scan but to my knowledge was not given any thrombus treatment other than aspirin - identified as a falls risk by nursing staff, given cot sides on her bed but was then expected to mobilise to and from the toliet without any walking aids ! 5 hrs passed late afternoon/evening before repeat neuro-observations were recorded, surely she should of been closely monitored for a 24 hrs period ? I feel this is really poor - on admission cognitive assessment was recorded as 'can't understand' I repeated this coginitive assessment in the evening myself and my mother responded well - the room she was in was drab, depressing, in need of refurbishing, she had no bed head on her bed, the identifing board on her room/bed was not filled in with her name, doctors name or nurses name, I was also very concerned that despite the current heat wave and my mothers frailty she was not given a jug of water or any glass to drink from, she was not on a fluid balance chart, I was told this did not need to be recorded - I am disgusted at what in only a brief period of time I have witnessed and welcome your response