"This hospital is very understaffed with nurses. At one point I had overheard one of the nurses saying to my roommate that there were only 2 nurses on the floor at the time and each of them had 13 patients! The rooms were SO small that it was very difficult to get around, even to the bathroom with your IV pole. The bathroom only had enough room for the toilet and you, you really had to fanagle to get your IV pole in there with you, especially if you are overweight. The sink was outside the bathroom. The room was so small that with a visitor in a chair at the foot of the bed (which was the only place that would have allowed for a chair to fit), a nurse could not get through unless the person moved from the chair. My room mate and I could have held hands easily from within our beds had we wanted to. There was a curtain between us but with only (no lie) 6-8 inches between the curtain and the bed. My mom said the hallway of the froor I was on (5th floor) was QUITE cluttered with equipment and patients. She said she didn't know how they got a stretcher through there, as they couldn't have wheeled it straight through the hall. My Dad added to this that during meal times, when they had two food carts in the hall way it would simply have been impossible to get a bed through there. Most times it took a nurse or Hospital Tech 30 minutes to respond to a nurse's call, so if you had to use the bathroom, you were either on your own (which is what I did) or wait half an hour for help. The IV lines beeped for just as long (30 minutes or longer) before anyone came in to check the IV. Even when the Hosp Techs did come in to check the IV if it was beeping, they still had to find a nurse and send her in because they were not trained to change the IV bag or switch from a medicine bag back to the
IV bag, etc. The good part of this hospital (I guess) is that they require you to wear TED compression stockings during the surgery and every day you are there afterward to prevent blood clots, they also put these sleeve like things on your legs that inflate and deflate every 30 seconds (also to prevent blood clots) but they are so annoying and warm enough to make your legs sweat. You have to wear these inflatable sleeves everyday and night after surgery. They give all of their patients a heprin shot in the stomach every day, again to prevent blood clots, and this shot HURTS!"
