So I currently live in Flushing, Queens. By me there are many hospitals in the area including Flushing Hospital, where I usually go, mainly because my mam is the Nurse there, she works in the cardiac unit. I have some health concerns due to a weak immune system, so I spend a lot of time in doctors’ offices and hospitals. I prefer a doctor’s office to a hospital because I’m afraid of hospitals and I’m a germ-aphob, also I tend to get sicker when I go to the hospital. When I do go to the hospital for any occasion I usually don’t have to wait long due to the fact that my mother works there.
On a comparison level, I will be comparing Flushing Hospital (1.2 miles from me) and St. Francis Hospital (13.2 miles from me). Both of these hospitals are acute care hospitals, meaning it is a branch of …show more content…
Basically where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness. In other words for people with acute/ short term conditions compared to like a nursing home for example which is the opposite; from chronic care or longer term care. In the comparison between the two hospitals, for the majority of the survey St. Francis Hospital had much higher ratings than Flushing Hospital and in some occasions (8 of 11) higher than the Nation’s ratings. First I will be discussing and comparing the experiences from a patient’s perspective. The first thing that I noticed was the percentage of how patients reported that the nurses always communicated well. Flushing was 21% under the Nation’s ratings, and honestly I wasn’t too surprised by this. Because I always here my mam complaining about how the nurses don’t do anything. My mam trained to be a nurse in Ireland, Europe in a regional. The training is so different because she gets nurses to shadow her all the time, and a majority of the time they have no idea what my mam is doing or talking about. So if the nurses don’t even know
On a comparison level, I will be comparing Flushing Hospital (1.2 miles from me) and St. Francis Hospital (13.2 miles from me). Both of these hospitals are acute care hospitals, meaning it is a branch of …show more content…
Basically where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness. In other words for people with acute/ short term conditions compared to like a nursing home for example which is the opposite; from chronic care or longer term care. In the comparison between the two hospitals, for the majority of the survey St. Francis Hospital had much higher ratings than Flushing Hospital and in some occasions (8 of 11) higher than the Nation’s ratings. First I will be discussing and comparing the experiences from a patient’s perspective. The first thing that I noticed was the percentage of how patients reported that the nurses always communicated well. Flushing was 21% under the Nation’s ratings, and honestly I wasn’t too surprised by this. Because I always here my mam complaining about how the nurses don’t do anything. My mam trained to be a nurse in Ireland, Europe in a regional. The training is so different because she gets nurses to shadow her all the time, and a majority of the time they have no idea what my mam is doing or talking about. So if the nurses don’t even know