"Constant attention by a good nurse can be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon", this statement was made by a UN Secretary General, and was the opening statement in the news story I watched. This attention from nurses is getting harder to come by, and in America we are running about 100,000 nurses short (video). As the population gets older and sicker, this nursing shortage is expected to increase. The nursing shortage shows us just how important nurses are to keep patients alive and hospitals running. This news story takes viewers inside of a the busiest hospital in New York, New York Presbyterian Hospital, to uncover the truth of how imperative nurses are.
Story 1: We follow nurse Mary Grace Savage and her patient Nicole Marquez, who fell down 5 stories, broke her neck, back, pelvis, ribs, and punctured a lung. In the video it says, "Popular culture often depicts the work of doctors heroically, what is too is often over looked however is the essential role of nurses. Who is the case of Nicole Marquez care for their patient constantly, and by constantly we mean constantly, monitoring, managing, responding, day and night". Nurses keep the communication following, whether it's to doctors or family members. Right away nurses are there walking patients and their families through what is going on. In Nicole's case the nurses patiently go through the alphabet so she can pick out certain letters and they from there. After a month of constant care and attention, they were able to remove the breathing equipment from her mouth, she was then moved to a rehabilitation facility. They once feared that she wouldn't be able to survived her fall, let alone walk or raise her arms, but a year later she walked back into New York Presbyterian and hugged her nurses.
Casey W.
Link to the video:
http://www.jonascenter.org/news/post/nurses-needed-a-now-on-pbs-documentary-supported-by-jonas-center-explores-nursing-shortage
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