I think the care on ward 22 is atrocious and you can't really blame the nurses I think it's because there isn't enough of them. My partner has been on this ward numerous times and I've watched patients tip hot soup down them as they have not been sat up to eat there meals and buzzers going off for hours before somebody comes to your aid. My partner was sent down for tpn (Total parenteral nutrition) while on warfarin and now they're back in there as a patient on tpn with really bad anxiety because of what they've been through so had tpn fitted and was told can't run out and can only run for 24 hrs. Two days later it had nearly ran out and pharmacy sent wrong bag up so they couldn't have it on, started to panic so they put a different blood thinner in it turned it off attached it again day later and then tpn was running out again nurse to busy to do it so waited another 3 hrs to have it changed making my partner anxious and panicking again. I wish less money was paid to management and spent on training some more nurses as I dont blame them there so short staffed on that ward as there is only one nurse for 6 bays that's trained to do tpn.
"Only one trained TPN staff member"
About: Leicester Royal Infirmary / General surgery Leicester Royal Infirmary General surgery LE1 5WW NHS Leicester City CCG NHS Leicester City CCG Leicester LE3 8TB
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