Nurse’s Pain Memory Ctr

Recovery clicks on ‘pain has no memory”..I say it does and nurses carry a lot of painful experiences in their memory banks to view the world frequented by many kinds of pain. A 70y.o. ICU nurse working the post op of a 300lbs. male, 60 y.o. , multiple coronary bypasses, sprinkled with drug addiction complicating recovery. The big city cardiac surgery unit is shy of staffing leading eventually to 300lbs pt. climb out of railed b ed and fell b/w chair/door & bed w/ no door open option . Moving the bed and using a hoyer lift is all there is. This pt . has pulled out main lines, is squawking heard everywhere. It’s 3 am and there are two nurses available. The 70y.o. is an experienced nurse , but this is off the charts unless 4 people of reasonable strength. Two young male residents at nurse’s stations were asked to help and actually go in the breskroom to not come back out to help…the truth of failure and death is seldom a nurse’s mystery. The nurse’s answers from the curb that 300lbs drug abused of intentional repeats is the surgery mill commonly seen . Although this particular event is unique other levels of abuse occurs for many in the big ChaChing industry..Many events nurses carry around have caused enormous failures in the adm & regulations machine causing depletion of nurses wanting to be nurses.