At OU children’s hospital we’ve been from the ER, 7th, 8th, 9th and now 10th floor stays. We’ve had nurses we absolutely love and still stay in contact with and some we have different opinions. Most nurses know us here at children’s. But because of past experiences with either newly nurses or training nurses with Ella’s medical conditions we would prefer someone who knows what they are doing. When the nurse comes in and just looks at the IV site and does not feel it I knew something was up. When she asked “how would you like me to flush this before the antibiotics” I knew something was up. When she tried to flush it and did not check if it was soft or not leaking or if the skin was white I knew something was off. I offered to turn on the lights, she said no it was fine. She tried to flush it and Ella immediately started screaming. I told her to stop. She said “I’m going to try again” I turned on the lights on noticed it was leaking out from the bandages. She still continued to try to flush. Again Ella cries in pain. She said “oh it is leaking let me try once more” before I could say that’s enough she pushed again I told her it’s time to take this out now. She removed the IV to find Ella’s arm completely swollen still leaking liquids. She gave us hot pads and left. That was at 12:30 last night. She came in at 6am this morning telling us they low on Pedialyte but it was shift change so she was leaving. That was it. No checking her arm, making sure the swelling went down, no is she okay, how is she doing? I’m completely baffled because when we had an IV incident last year every nurse on the floor checked in with us to make sure she was okay. Charge nurse and risk management has been contacted but this needs to bring awareness to inpatient care.
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