My wife has been an RNS for over 30 years,ICU,Research now doing home infusions. And she agrees with your wifes assessment. There is a high level of incompetency in them.My wife who is a nurse says a hospital is one of the most dangerous places you can be in
Personal examples:
1. Years ago we took my father to the emergency room for a minor stroke. An EMT hooked him up to an IV that had a line completely full of air. My wife saw it and yelled at the guy to get a syringe so she could suck the air out of it before it killed him. The head nurse came in all pissed off because my wife was giving orders to her person then shut up when she saw the air in the line.
2. When my wife and I were dating I was in the hospital with septicemia and every evening evening my temp would spike at 103 and I would become delirious so they had me on a cooling/heating pad machine. My future wife came in to visit and found they had the machine set to HEAT. She grabbed a nurse who said she had never used the machine before.
3. I had a heart attack a few years ago and afterword had a stent implanted. Before the procedure my wife could see on the monitors that my blood pressure was on the low side of normal which is not normal for me. She tried to tell them that it usually runs the high end of mormal but no one would listen. Durning the procedure I started really feeling bad and could feel the sweat running off the back of my head and had to tell them "Hey guys, somthing's not right, I feel relly bad". There was a lot of people moving around quickly and I started feeling better. Afterward when I told my wife about it she said that my blood pressure probably crashed and they were not looking at it and they had almost killed me.
Morel: If you have to go into a hospital make sure you marry a nurse first