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FRENCHIES HOSPITAL SURVIVAL TIPS
Helen asks, “Who is really operating on patients in operating rooms, in hospital invasive procedure rooms, or in ambulatory surgical centers?” (often called In/Out Patient Clinics i.e. regulated and non-regulated)
If you, dear reader, know the answers to these questions, and if you read this book, your life or the life of someone you love undergoing any type of invasive surgery, might be spared from infection, errors, injuries, and even death. These “TIPS” are Helen’s personal nursing suggestions and opinions based on her 33 year operating room career.
If you or a loved one are about to have any invasive operation—read this book! It covers abortion, anesthesia, artificial blood, breast cancer, condoms, delegation and supervision, fraud, staff that fall asleep at the operating room table, and much more.
Again, Helen asks, “Who is operating on you?” While you are sedated or unconscious on any operating room table, you might be vulnerable to care from staff with on the job training or little-to-no medical training, in operating rooms, in hospital invasive procedure rooms, or in ambulatory surgical clinics.
There is a growing trend to use UAP (unlicensed assistive personnel: staff with no formal education or formal training from accredited schools) to fill employee slots in the invasive surgical arena. These UAP may even basically end up operating on patients because the vague legal verbiage of delegation and supervision allows licensed staffers in all states to delegate to almost anyone to do almost anything to patients.
Beware of those states which may be or have automatically bestowed through regulatory changes, job roles, and even certification and licensure pertaining to the issue of the UAP in order to condone the hiring of UAP. In Helen’s opinion, this is an effort to promote cheap labor. Helen feels, in the name of patient safety, that there is no room in any healthcare section for “cheap labor’ since patient safety is always at stake.
Helen “Frenchie” French is a Registered Nurse with over 33 years of operating room experience at private and teaching hospitals. She has always been a strong advocate of patient safety. She retired from nursing and from her beloved University of Virginia MERCI Program due to needless chronic pain from neck surgery. She challenges everyone reading this book to help her stop the trend of “cheap labor’ in the invasive healthcare arena. The massive data pertaining to the ever increasing patient infections, injuries and deaths in the United States has flamed Helen’s concerns. She is now sharing her concerns with the public.
This book is for you, dear reader, who at any time may need additional valid information to be your own advocate or to champion the safety of others. The most vulnerable patients are those who cannot be their own advocates, such as the children and the elderly.
Please read her 2009 Open Letter to President Obama on
www.operatingroomrnwatchingoveryou.com
Helen M. French RN, BSN
Founder / Coordinator of the University of Virginia MERCI Program (1991-2007)
http://corporate.uvahealth.com/community/recycling/merci
www.merci-medicalsupplies.com
Helen asks, “Who is really operating on patients in operating rooms, in hospital invasive procedure rooms, or in ambulatory surgical centers?” (often called In/Out Patient Clinics i.e. regulated and non-regulated)
If you, dear reader, know the answers to these questions, and if you read this book, your life or the life of someone you love undergoing any type of invasive surgery, might be spared from infection, errors, injuries, and even death. These “TIPS” are Helen’s personal nursing suggestions and opinions based on her 33 year operating room career.
If you or a loved one are about to have any invasive operation—read this book! It covers abortion, anesthesia, artificial blood, breast cancer, condoms, delegation and supervision, fraud, staff that fall asleep at the operating room table, and much more.
Again, Helen asks, “Who is operating on you?” While you are sedated or unconscious on any operating room table, you might be vulnerable to care from staff with on the job training or little-to-no medical training, in operating rooms, in hospital invasive procedure rooms, or in ambulatory surgical clinics.
There is a growing trend to use UAP (unlicensed assistive personnel: staff with no formal education or formal training from accredited schools) to fill employee slots in the invasive surgical arena. These UAP may even basically end up operating on patients because the vague legal verbiage of delegation and supervision allows licensed staffers in all states to delegate to almost anyone to do almost anything to patients.
Beware of those states which may be or have automatically bestowed through regulatory changes, job roles, and even certification and licensure pertaining to the issue of the UAP in order to condone the hiring of UAP. In Helen’s opinion, this is an effort to promote cheap labor. Helen feels, in the name of patient safety, that there is no room in any healthcare section for “cheap labor’ since patient safety is always at stake.
Helen “Frenchie” French is a Registered Nurse with over 33 years of operating room experience at private and teaching hospitals. She has always been a strong advocate of patient safety. She retired from nursing and from her beloved University of Virginia MERCI Program due to needless chronic pain from neck surgery. She challenges everyone reading this book to help her stop the trend of “cheap labor’ in the invasive healthcare arena. The massive data pertaining to the ever increasing patient infections, injuries and deaths in the United States has flamed Helen’s concerns. She is now sharing her concerns with the public.
This book is for you, dear reader, who at any time may need additional valid information to be your own advocate or to champion the safety of others. The most vulnerable patients are those who cannot be their own advocates, such as the children and the elderly.
Please read her 2009 Open Letter to President Obama on
www.operatingroomrnwatchingoveryou.com
Helen M. French RN, BSN
Founder / Coordinator of the University of Virginia MERCI Program (1991-2007)
http://corporate.uvahealth.com/community/recycling/merci
www.merci-medicalsupplies.com
