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The nursing staff was better than excellent. I had one nurse Steven who was the most wonderful, helpful and caring nurse I have ever had taking care of me. I can't say enough about the entire hospital experience.. they were great. The only downfall I found was the hospital gowns.
I had never stayed at Morristown Memorial Hospital but I must say it was an extremely pleasant experience. The Dr.'s, and Nurses were all very pleasant and they were dilligent in their efforts to make me comfortable. The common areas and private patient areas were immaculate and it was quiet. Anything I needed they provided and were well versed in the needs of bariatric patients.
If the floor I was on was supposed to be dedicated to bariatric patients I think they need to go back and try again! Not one patient who was there who had had the surgery was in a room with another patient who had also had the surgery. Most of us where in with ailing edlery people who kept us up all night with doctors and visitors and complaints and such (I'm speaking for the other FOUR bariatric patients who had the surgery when I did!!!) If they had nurses specially trained in dealing with bariatric patients they must have all been on vacation the 3 days I was there cause not one that I met knew anything about it. One nurse in the middle of the night woke me to take my blood pressure ran out of the room and came back with a NITRO PATCH and placed it over my heart and told me not to panic should be back in an hour to check on me. THREE AND A HALF HOURS LATER she came back and took my blood pressure again and once again ran out of my room. Another nurse arrived who took my blood pressure on the arn without my IV in it (even though I cried and begged the first nurse to stop taking it in the arm with my IV) and my blood pressure was fine!!! They gave me a nitro patch FOR NO REASON AT ALL!!! Not only that but the first nurse had pushed out my IV trying to take my blood pressure and I had to wait 5 hours for another nurse to come in and replace the IV in my other hand which meant no pain medication for all that time!!! I had no privacy - one nurse requested that my roommate and I bathe ourselves with the curtain between us open so she could get us done quicker. When I refused and went into the bathroom she then told me that I had to leave the door open so she could monitor me...I slammed the door and locked it. Later that night she refused to let us keep our room door closed so we could block out the noise and light and sleep! I wasn't able to eat hardly any food the first two days (we are talking one to two bites of jello the whole day) yet NOT ONE NURSE asked me if something was wrong, was I unable to eat, was I hurting, was there something wrong with the food. Nothing! They woke me at 4am the day I was to be discharged to ask me if I wanted to go home. When I said "yes of course" the young man told me that I had better get up and get ready then cause the doctor comes in early and if I wanted to go home I should be ready and waiting. At 12:30 that afternoon I had to go to the nurses desk to ask if I was still be discharged and was advised the doctor went home and must have forgotten about me! They paged him and he was upset he had to come back, gave me a piece of paper with some medication instructions on it and told me not to life anything over 30lbs otherwise I had no restrictions that "if I felt like kickboxing...go for it" and left the room. No care instructions for my incisions no nothing! All in all I wouldn't reccomend anyone going to this hospital for anything! They might just kill ya!
The nurses were fantastic from their recovery romm to the floor. To name a few from the floor Jane, Sylvia, and Danielle were all great. Also their nurses aides were great. I dont remember the nurses name from recovery be they helped with the complication I had and they were two angels that God sent just for me.
I found the whole experience at Morristown Memorial to be as pleasant as it could be. the only proble was the nursing staff at night, it took them a while to come when you would call then & then act annoyed.
The nurses are way understaffed, and that hurts the patients. The nurse's assistants are generally very poor in communicating skills and were very rude and ignorant towards me. I never got my pain medications until about 25 mins. after asking for it. I am WAY dissapointed with my stay in this hospital!
I felt that care was very good; no complaints, except for one grouchy aide at night:) Nursing staff was wonderful.
