Admitting was a problem despite my premier medical insurance which I've had for decades. All the paperwork to fill out when I was having absolutely irregular heart beats and feeling tight chest, dizzy and weak. No one cared.
Nurses stood outside my E.R. room and carried out laughter for a very long time, talking about patients and me in a negative way, thereby showing ""no respect to patient privacy"".
If you need a cup of water to drink, they screamed ,""Now what does she want""? I was clearly made to feel like a burden on them. I was all hooked up by the EKG wires and couldn't go to the bathroom. I asked for help, the nurse ignored for 20 minutes until I really couldn't control and asked for assistance again.
I shivered and asked for a blanket, the nurse blamed it on the room being cold, no blanket.
I finally asked for a nurse in charge on duty, she came and was nasty, she jabbed me 3 times and did not draw blood from a very good vein that no one has ever missed before. She left without putting a band aid on. Another nurse came and tried my other arm and of course missed it, then she tried to dig around in the tissue with the needle looking for a vein, that causes pain and is therefore not allowed to do in our phlebotomy books/teaching and training of nurses and medical lab tech. students as i have taught both. My arm was left black and blue.
To my surprise, 3 days later when I looked at my ER chart copy, the nurses notes info. was incorrect in it.
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