NURSING CARE

     The chart released by the Hospital does not contain a Nursing Treatment Care
Plan.  It contains only 1 actual Narrative Nursing Note.  Both are required by the
various national and state hospital review organizations.

     The Hospital did, however, release their own Supportive Device Management
Protocol.  A review of this protocol reveals they were in violation in their care of 
Seth in at least the following 3 ways:

	1.  Seth was never sedated as was required by any humane standard of 
	     medical care. Were this "less restrictive method" to have been used, there
             would have been no need at all for 60+ hours of restraints.

	2.  We were never, at any point, informed that Seth had been placed in restraints.

	3.  Seth was kept in full restraints on a "general care unit" for 12 hours before
             being transferred to the ICU.

     There are various daily nursing observations. These include the generally untimed
Nursing Data Base Flowsheets and the often illegible Patient Progress Record. There 
are also Vital Sign and EKG records. These can be viewed by clicking on the 
following  days:

		August 21, 1993
		August 22, 1993
		August 23, 1993
		August 24, 1993
		August 25, 1993
		August 26, 1993
		August 27, 1993

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