Chip Chick
While healthcare providers are human, they often make mistakes just like us. But what if your nurse or anyone else on the healthcare staff performs a practice that may be disturbing or unethical?
A 23-year-old had a port placed in her chest that needs to be flushed at least once a month. This patient has been going to her local hospital and has seen the same nurse the last two times.
During their first encounter, the nurse did not feel for her port and went to stick the needle into her skin based on her scar.
Unfortunately, this nurse put the needle in the wrong spot and hit the bottom sidewall of her port, which caused the patient to have excruciating pain.
While screaming and crying for the nurse to stop, the nurse ignored her and continued to dig around her body with the needle while pushing and pulling saline to get the blood to return.
The nurse then told her that her port was occluded and to see her doctor.
She called her doctor immediately and had it flushed. So she went back last week and, to her luck, found out that she would have the same nurse.
This time, she moved her port around to show the nurse where it was.
Shocked, the nurse of 20 years told her patient that she had never seen a port above a scar. Apparently, they are usually below it.
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