Patient Assessment, Quality Care Standards

My mom was in the hospital for kidney stones and they did a great job coming in regularly to ask how she was doing and managing her pain every few hours. Her only complaint was the ten pounds of fluid they put on her.

They were supposed to be assessing my elderly mom to make sure they were not causing a hospital acquired condition (HAC), such as pulmonary edema when her GFR was 52. The nurses should have been touching her to see her swelling (edema); they were supposed to not only be tracking her urine amount, but straining it to see if stones passed, and have her on a bed that automatically weighed her to see that she was retaining fluid which is dangerous with someone with high blood pressure (hypertension).
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​Clinicians should always assess the patient - look, listen, feel - even when stable to always have a baseline, and to monitor if treatments are being successful, to avoid complications before machines alarm.