I attended the medical day unit to receive an infusion. The nursing assistant who was checking my observations failed to check my oxygen saturation and pulse by not applying the probe on my finger at all. Then recorded a false reading on the mews chart. The nurse putting the infusion through did not let the whole amount of the drug run in and binned a quarter of it! The nurse then done exactly the same with the observations, recording false information on the chart. This experience in a whole has frightened me as basic observations were not sufficiently carried out!
"Problems with infusion"
About: University Hospital Wishaw / General Medicine (Wards 5 & 8) University Hospital Wishaw General Medicine (Wards 5 & 8) ML2 0DP
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