Go Back   Ultimate Nurse > Nursing Discussion Forums > Nursing News
Register

Notices

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 11-16-2004, 04:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
Super Moderator
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 2,163
Send a message via ICQ to nursinghumor Send a message via AIM to nursinghumor Send a message via Skype™ to nursinghumor
Arkansas: Nursing Home Neglect Persists

Nov. 16, 2004: Arkansas: Nursing Home Neglect Persists:"When Monica Fleming put her mother in a nursing home, she thought she'd get crucial help after heart surgery. But as CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports, within 30 days Georgia Givens was dead from an unrelated cause: neglect. She choked, had gangrene in her leg and, according to the coroner, ants may have infested Givens' body through her feeding tube while she was alive. If it hadn't been for the coroner, Fleming probably would have thought she died a natural death."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in656083.shtml

Makes you want to keep close tabs on your relatives in Nursing Homes, doesn't it?

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.4nursing.com
nursinghumor is offline  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote
Old 11-16-2004, 04:44 PM   #2 (permalink)
Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Pocatello, Idaho
Posts: 49
Re: Arkansas: Nursing Home Neglect Persists

This makes me feel much beter since my father is in a rehab in Pulaski County, Arkansas! Atleast if he dies, we'll have the coroner to ask the real cause of death, right?

And last time I was there they were preaching to me about their "quality of nursing care."
AzNurse67 is offline  
Digg this Post!Add Post to del.icio.usBookmark Post in TechnoratiFurl this Post!
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes



Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Preparing for return to Nursing cathiel1994 General Nursing Discussion 7 07-25-2007 01:04 PM
GRRR - The Gender Bias Continues Pat Male Nurses Forum 96 07-18-2007 01:43 AM
Nursing Conference Resources nursinghumor General Nursing Discussion 0 09-26-2004 05:49 PM
Patient Reassurance, Bedside Nursing Jokes nursinghumor Nursing Jokes, Inspirations and Quotes 0 09-24-2004 03:44 PM



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208