re: OLOL Hospital Level of Care

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I don't care if it's Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinic, you had better have someone staying in the room with the patient if at all possible, especially if they're not capable of advocating for themselves.

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And it helps if they have a little medical knowledge.

20 years ago my daughter had a 10 day stay in the Cleveland Clinic battling bilateral kidney infections. My wife and I split 12 hour shifts for the whole hospitalization and it's a damn good thing we did.

The pedo ward was stacked so my 7 yo daughter had an adjoining room with another child who weighed 180 or so pounds. Late one night I was awakened by a nurse hanging an IV bag on my daughters pole. Knowing her med schedule, I asked what she was doing and she said she was giving her her antibiotics. I looked at the bag and it was an antibiotic that is toxic to the kidneys and I told her not to hook it up.

She argued with me a bit until I told her I needed to talk to an attending physician. Well they sent a resident who had a strong Jamaican accent. She wasn't happy when I told her I needed to speak to the attending physician before she hung her meds.

The next morning my daughters urologist, the attending physician, came into the room and apologized and thanked me for not letting them give her the meds. The meds were meant for the patient on the other side of the curtain and if given would have certainly blown out her kidneys as they were nephrotoxic and dosed for someone who was three times her body mass.

Ask many questions and never leave their bedside.

Wow what an incompetent nurse. That's horrible that happened to your family and can understand it causing you to distrust nurses. With electronic charting and having barcodes of meds and patient armbands that scan (both med and patient) medical errors like that are not as likely to happen.

As a nurse I have to take up for nurses and say we aren't all idiots that need to be watched over by patient's families. As for OLOL.....I worked there years ago. Worked with some outstanding nurses that I would trust to care for my child if I was a parent. That hospital though....not shocked at the reviews to be honest. I've always heard good things about the Peds floor there (even after I left).....not so much the regular adult floors. Keep in mind though....they give the nurses on adult floors (besides the ICUs) way more patients than on a Peds floor. I may have 5 kids to care for during my 12 hour shift.....the nurse on the regular adult floor may have 6-8 adults.

OLOL has been bad for probably 5 years. I used to go a lot, and switched over to the general after OLOL took a shite

I work at OLOL. The care is entirely dependent upon who the attending is, as well as the nurses. I work along side some fantastic nurses, but also know tons who don't know their head from a hole in the ground. With the high turn around rate, they hire nothing but new grads and this is where a lot of the incompetency comes into play.

Patients are worse at the lake bc it is pretty much the charity hospital, but dr's are much better at olol er.

Welcome to government run healthcare.


ETA: Only time Ive been there was with my daughter about a year ago. The waiting for a room was like 2 hours, but after that it wasnt bad.

Why does gov't run mean total incompetence? It usually does, from TSA to the DMV, but OLOL is run by the Franciscans. From the eye rolls to the idiocy, it looks like "it's just old white people, who cares? frick 'em."

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As a nurse I have to take up for nurses and say we aren't all idiots that need to be watched over by patient's families.

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I really don't think nurses are a bunch of idiots. I relayed my experience as a warning to anyone with a loved one in the hospital, that they need to be at the bedside as much as humanly possible.

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That's horrible that happened to your family and can understand it causing you to distrust nurses. With electronic charting and having barcodes of meds and patient armbands that scan (both med and patient) medical errors like that are not as likely to happen.

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Admittedly, that was 20 years ago and a lot of things technologically have changed that would prevent things such as what could have happened to my family. I was lucky in that I sold antibiotics for 5 years prior to this event and calling on teaching centers, I knew how a teaching center worked.

My twin nieces are both RNs, one a charge nurse at EJ and the other at Childrens in NO, and I respect the work that they do. Nothing but love for nurses here, but that doesn't mean that I won't ask a bunch of question and be at the bedside when a loved one is in the hospital.

I have worked in healthcare over 22 yrs Sheep and I can tell you that the affordable healthcare act has truly changed things in the last 3 yrs. Are you in healthcare???