When the hospital has the patient's family reach out to you, the home health nurse, cuz the hospital can't reach the wound team and doesn't know what to do or what's protocol for the wound vac 🤔
I get where they're coming from having been in that position but the family tried to have me come in to do a wound vac change. Nope. Admin crap from the hosp and my agency woulda stopped that.
@insomniacviolin It's a damn shame that the patient has to be the one to suffer. And yeah, I know that if one gives and inch they take a mile, but the patient is the one who's harmed by not getting the care they need.
I hope there's a patient advocate at the hospital who can beat people around the had and shoulders to get the patient the care they need.
Sucks the hospital is manipulating the patient's family.
@J_Windrow having dealt with wound vacs for 10 years I told the nurse what he needed to know about wound vacs and that he needed to remove the dressing (it was due to be changed today anyway) and do a basic dressing until the wound team there could address it
@insomniacviolin Lets hope they took care of their patient. My first social work job involved working with patients and doing patient advocacy.
These days I have a friend who was the first person with 85% 3rd degree burns to survive at Parkland in Dallas. As you can imagine, he has skin problems and sometimes requires wound vacs.
The visiting nurses are great. Sometimes the VA hospital requires beating around the head and shoulders.