This continues today. Corporations have full control of healthcare and it's about costs not care for patients or the nurses or any staff. America should be embarrassed but hey as long as corporations are making money and living good, right?
shareYou realize that this applies to the world, right? Just swap "Corporations" for any name of a different group with power and bam.
Humanity should be embarrassed, not just the US.
As a nurse, you MUST know that NOT every situation is a predictable one. Accidents DO happen, no matter HOW rigid the safety protocol is. I've been a patient in a hospital that used a safety needle. The nurse who administered the shot...(maybe Topomax?...an anti-inflammatory drug), was a nurse in training. She'd never done it before, and believe me,it hurt. However, in the long run,I was grateful I'd agreed be the "guinea pig". (And this was recent...Mar.,2016).
Once the medical staff learns HOW to use the safety needle, the better off ALL patients will be. Like I said...I was asked to be a guinea pig, and I totally agreed. How else are young medical staff to learn? I encourage every future surgical patient to allow themselves to become that most important medical learning "device", the beloved "Guinea Pig"! It's NOT FUN. IT can be painful! But so well WORTH IT. A REAL CONTRIBUTION to science, if you will. Almost as good as being a blood donor...ALMOST!