Pennsylvania Hospital Hospital

A few of my nurses were lax, and not attentive. But never outright mean. It took an hour for them to meet some of my requests.

For my first meal, they tried to feed me a REGULAR clear liquid meal. Not a Gastric bypass clear liquid meal. Which is small and sugar free. If I hadn't been smart enough to know what they were giving me was NOT ok, I might have ended up right back in surgery!!

While I had lots of attention from doctors, some of the nursing staff left a lot to be desired. It took over 24 hours for me to get my personal items and when I asked, no one seemed to know what I was talking about. Docs wrote orders and it took hours for the nurses to carry them out. And as a nurse myself, I always tell a person simple things---like their room number when they first get to my floor. No one offered to help me ambulate--I did it myself. And my big complaint was that I did not get to my room after surgery until 10:30 PM and they had my pain meds set up on a IV where I had to push the button every 10 minutes to get meds. Seems to me that all would know that I would need pain meds through the night! Did not sleep one night during my 4 day stay.

I don't think the nursing staff cares about the patient's needs at all. During my entire stay I couldn't get someone to help me out of bed to walk and I never had compression boots for my entire stay which had me very upset because before surgery everyone says how important it is to use them. My clothes and suitcase that I came with weren't brought down to me until almost 24 hours after surgery after asking numerous times for them.

I would recommend it to anyone!

I have absolutely no complaints! My surgery and recovery went very smoothly and I would do it again in a heartbeat!

Overall, the nursing was great. I did have one horrible mean nurse, which did make me have some negative thoughts reguarding my stay, but overall, I loved majority of the nurses, Doctors, & staff.

only positive was doctor, hosptal cleanliness very poor staff poor

My stay was good and they were prepared to watch the asthma, apnea, and bladder issues. I was quite happy with my short stay.

Everyone, from cleaner to surgeon, was friendly, helpful, competent, professional...it felt as if everyone I came in contact with was part of my circle of friends. I felt cared for.

My room was outside the nurses desk (Good at times) which was used as a training area (Bad Idea) at night time with lots of loud talking and conversation talk, it was very annoying when trying to get some rest.