Top Stories from JCAHO:
“Correct Patient, Correct Procedure,
Correct Site, EVERY TIME!
Compromised, Almost Comatose,
Surgical Team
YES – SOME OF THE TIME!
The Standards JCAHO choose to Police v
The Standards JCAHO Choose to Ignore!
Did you Celebrate National Time Out Day?
Do We Need: “National Pass Out Day?”
“Try telling me it is safe to remain continuously
scrubbed into Surgery without a break for 12 hours:
not a single drink of water, any food or a chance to
urinate? Try convincing me that concentrating on
performing a critical, highly stressful, role in the
OR during Surgery while sick, dizzy and faint, does
not pose a serious risk to my patient, unconscious
on the OR table?
Did you Celebrate National Time Out Day?
Do We Need: “National Pass Out Day?”
“Try telling me it is safe to remain continuously
scrubbed into Surgery without a break for 12 hours:
not a single drink of water, any food or a chance to
urinate? Try convincing me that concentrating on
performing a critical, highly stressful, role in the
OR during Surgery while sick, dizzy and faint, does
not pose a serious risk to my patient, unconscious
on the OR table?
Please explain to the General public why JCAHO,
the Maryland Board of Nursing, MIEMSS, and so many
other Public Agencies, whoser mandate is to protect
US Citizens from unnecessary harm, still choose to
ignore the obvious risks posed by such negligent
abandonment of any member of the Surgical Team?"
Review & Sign the Petition:
Read the Letter of Appeal sent to well respected Doctors
at “America’s Best Hospital:”
“Deliberate Negligent Understaffing” Endangers us all;
Join the C U T ! Campaign to:
Control Understaffing Today!
Control Understaffing Today!
A new C.U.T! CAMPAIGN PETITION will be posted shortly on the Care2, http://www.thepetitionsite.com/ under Health.
I am eagerly seeking the Constructive Input and Support of individual Nurses as well as Nursing Websites on Campaign Issues. Please contact me and also visit the new TRANSPARENCY for EQUAL ACCOUNTABILITY in MEDICINE site at:
http://medteam.wordpress.com/cut-campaign-for-patient-safety/
