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Corzine’s Recovery: Where Were the Nurses?
By Beth | May 31, 2007
The Center for Nursing Advocacy is finding fault with the New York Times’ coverage of Corzine’s recovery.
Here’s the New York Times Article:
(Here’s a tip: If you want to read an older article from NYT or WSJ but it requires a paid subscription, google the entire title of the article in quotes and you will usually find the article posted somewhere else for free. In this case the NYT article was posted on the Herald Tribune’s site.)
And here is the Center for Nursing Advocacy’s response.
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While I don’t particularly agree with every issue the CNA brings to light, as an ICU nurse I had to chime in on this one. ICU nurses do everything with respect to titrating pain/sedation meds. No, we don’t actually write the order, but we are continually negotiating with the patient and the doctor to get the level of sedation to the point where it serves the patient in his recovery. This is a major part of my job in caring for ventilated patients. It’s disheartening not to see the ICU nurses at Cooper given credit for this.
But the one time a nurse is mentioned:
with Mr. Corzine unable to speak because of the tube connecting his windpipe to the ventilator, David Donaghy, a nurse, read his lips as one way to respond to his wishes for more pain medication or ice water
I really find fault with. Since when is a ventilated patient allowed to have ice water?
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Change of Shift is up at Emergiblog.
Topics: Nursing News |
June 15th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I live in New Jersey and saw the governor’s psa when it came out. When it was over I turned to my husband and said “You’ve got to be kidding. A fantastic team of doctors AND A STRING OF MIRACLES?” Is that what he thinks saved his life????? I contacted Sandy Summers right away, and she had already heard from others. I sent out an e-mail to every nurse I could think of asking them to call the governor’s office and let them know how disappointed they were with the fact that he’d left nursing out of the picture. Shortly after the governor ran a radio piece that included nursing in his thanks.