I’m truly curious. Not even trying to complain, I understand the hospitals are full but like what takes so long to print paperwork?
UPDATE: Thank you all for your input and responses, it definitely helped the time pass by. We are home now. I do understand waiting is not suffering but at some point something has to give. We have an infant and toddler who had to be left with family and we were anxious to get home to them. I understand we are not the only people who have ever had to wait for discharge. I was truly curious as to what the hold up is. After getting incoming responses seeming to state that this is normal, it all got to me. This should not be normal and the patient, critical or not, should not have to get the short end of the stick. Reality or not. In a perfect world I guess.
Sorry to all the underpaid, over worked staff.
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In hospital nurse for 20 years. Pretty much all of what is said is true except for one theme. Everywhere I have worked is basically full all the time. I work in the larger hospital system in a bigger city that includes A lot of more rural hospitals that are holding patients to send to us. No one wants to keep anyone longer than need be. They do not get more money for a longer stay, the hospital actually loses money in a longer stay. I see discharges more often on the edge of far too soon than too late. But on the day you are to be discharged the waiting and the explanations here as to why it is delayed are absolutely correct.
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