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A story that really upset me
Nurse investigated after near death of girl
This was the second time there was a story like this involving the same agency's staff (albeit a different branch) nearly killing a ventilator-dependent patient by leaving their pipe off their neck for too long. This little girl (her family's website is here) is able to breathe a little bit so it wasn't quite the disaster it was for the man who got brain damaged, but still ... don't agencies check that someone going to care for a vent-dependent patient has the right training? Is there no way for them to find out?
I've got a friend who is a quad and is vent-dependent (from a car crash which gave her a C1/2 spinal cord injury) and didn't want to FB this in case she read it, but I'm sure this kind of possibility has occurred to her more than once. Makes me wonder what this agency are still doing in business.
This was the second time there was a story like this involving the same agency's staff (albeit a different branch) nearly killing a ventilator-dependent patient by leaving their pipe off their neck for too long. This little girl (her family's website is here) is able to breathe a little bit so it wasn't quite the disaster it was for the man who got brain damaged, but still ... don't agencies check that someone going to care for a vent-dependent patient has the right training? Is there no way for them to find out?
I've got a friend who is a quad and is vent-dependent (from a car crash which gave her a C1/2 spinal cord injury) and didn't want to FB this in case she read it, but I'm sure this kind of possibility has occurred to her more than once. Makes me wonder what this agency are still doing in business.