NG tube placement should be checked not only after initial placement but before EVERY tube feeding. no excuses

They didn't say placement was not checked, but unfortunately a lot of experienced nurses do the way they were taught 20 years ago, which was auscultation. We now know, that isn't the safe way anymore. More education needs to be done. Xray checking every placement also puts the baby at risk for high radiation levels. But changes do need to be made.

unfortunately sometimes these experiences happen and it shows what needs to change. She did what she was taught and you cant always point fingers with such hatred. There's things that have changed in society because of something that was once right and many people were not initially harmed. She may have felt dismissed but doesn't mean the nurse intended it to be that way. Theres very little compassion in this world and its increasingly thinning. She is a veteran nurse and probably does very well at her job, but she's still a person. She didn't say it wasn't checked, she has been doing it for 20 years. A lot of what you see today, often came as the result of finding out something isn't the best way. Sometimes when one thing works (and doesn't fail), a better way is found. In fact there's medications that were once used for good intention, didn't work out well but actually were the base formula and properties to drugs that are necessary today and it came at the initial result of failure. Medical science is not perfect but its always changing. Healthcare is not perfect and there's a risk for every single thing that happens in any setting.

It is unfortunate how much it varies though. While in the nicu they did this. Yet when she was given a Nf tube again at 13 months old and sent home it was replaced many times a day by us and we were told not to use the ER for this or nG placement. We were not given Anything besides a stethoscope to check that way which I do not like I bought the Ph strips to check myself. After having other parents on a fb group tell me about it. She was also on a continuous feed including overnight and no pulse was given. Which they require where we now live. If it was to slip or move while asleep I wouldn’t know.

And it’s really simple to check the correct placement of the tube you just push a tiny syringe of air through the tube and listen for it with a stethoscope to gurgle in the stomach. if it doesn’t you know it’s not in the stomach most likely in the lung. It’s just a simple procedure I would never pour liquid down that tube until I checked to make sure it was in the stomach

Another protocol is to pull back on the ng and test with a strip to check for gastric fluid. Why no one followed these are so beyond me. This is a clear example of medical neglect. I hope they lost their license to practice.

unfortunately even speaking up isn't always enough ,my husband died 6 months ago as a result of a series of medical errors which I repeatedly questioned only to be ignored or dismissed . i even tried to have him transferred to another hospital but was unsuccessful. Speaking up had helped save him from mistakes in the past but American medical care is becoming industrialized to the point of dehumanizing everyone involved : professionals ,patients and families alike are all just cogs in the system.

@@roxyb03 yeah I know. My husband is dead, my infant Dr was prescribed an overdose and I'm fighting for my life hear because of the care of physicians. I wish I had not been trained to trust these people. Now I fear them, for good reason. Many of them are dangerous. Too many errors, bad judgement, sloppy. Sorry for your loss also.

@@PatientSafetyMovement Please stop with the excuses. I am a RN with 35 years experience. I don’t know whether this nurse should’ve gone to jail or not, but what I do know is I would never put liquid down a feeding tube without checking its placement first. You can place the onus on the hospital and it systems but at the end of the day it is up to the nurse to check the five rights of administration of medication and to check the placement of any feeding tube. Period.