Day 3 - 16th November (Tuesday)
Trip Start
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Trip End
Ongoing
Where I stayed
Kangda Hotel, Nanjing
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
We headed up to a meeting room where we met the main professor of nursing for the hospital and for the university, she was really nice. It is a huge hospital it has around 2200beds in it and they are wanting to expand it to 5000! I've decided i really do not want to get sick in china. I definitely have not seen anything like it. There are people literally having heart attacks in the hallways! Apparently there can be upto 30 beds in the corridors of each ward!!!! They just dont have enough beds for everyone. May have something to do with the fact a lot of the rooms only have 1 or 2 beds in them! The VIP wards only have 1 bed in them unless its a double room in which it will have 2 beds spread over 2 rooms but the second bed is for relatives to use!!!! It was like a hotel suite! Apparently the nurses have 11 patients each during the day and on night shifts there is only 1 nurse, unless they are on the 51bed ward in which case they have 2 nurses... All the meds here are predispensed for them, and any meds are written up on the computer, not in charts. Also there is only 1 treatment nurse who is the only person who administers oral medications and a lot of the IV things are made up by pharmacy unless its a stat order. Also all emergency medications are locked away and only the treatment nurse has the key, except for night shifts, they are given to the 1 nurse who is on. Also don't go into cardiac arrest in China as only the CCU ward has its own defib machine, all the other wards have to share 1!
We checked out the cath labs today for cardiology. It was crazyyyy all the patients family would wait right outside the door and as soon as their relative would come out they'd run to them and carry their iv lines etc! Also the dr calls the family in during the procedure to show them the heart and ask them what treatment option they want for their family member depending on how much they can afford... too bad if you can't afford anything, you just die apparently.
So all and all today has been an interesting experience, and we are only half way through having a look at the hospital we are getting picked up later this afternoon to see more, they have a sleep break in the middle of the day!!
