This is about how Royal Perth Hospital’s staff handled an indigenous patient losing consciousness in the emergency department’s waiting room recently mid-afternoon.
The patient came into the emergency room in a wheelchair and the nurse in charge of them did not assess them. Instead the nurse asked the patient to walk to the seats and they stumbled on their way to the seats and fell unconscious. They sustained a head injury with active bleeding because, in my opinion, your nurse failed to do their job. I believe the patient's injury was preventable had the nurse done their job of assessing the patient properly.
The patient was not aggressive or agitated - they were unconscious. Three members of security staff also came into the room to respond to an unconscious patient. While unconscious, the patient accidentally urinated himself and security staff, I recall kicked and yelled at an unconscious patient to not to p*** themselves.
When another person in the waiting room politely spoke up in the patient's defence, security staff chose to intimidate this person telling them it is not their business. Security staff also returned after the patient was taken into the emergency department to tell the person they're not allowed to record security and I felt intimidated the person into showing them the phone. There is no such law, and no security staff is absolved from being held accountable.
This is not how government employees should respond to anyone.
"Treatment of unconscious patient"
About: Royal Perth Hospital / Emergency Department Royal Perth Hospital Emergency Department Perth 6000
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