The Center for Nursing Advocacy is finding fault with the New York Times’ coverage of Corzine’s recovery.

Here’s the New York Times Article:

(Here’s a tip: If you want to read an older article from NYT or WSJ but it requires a paid subscription, google the entire title of the article in quotes and you will usually find the article posted somewhere else for free. In this case the NYT article was posted on the Herald Tribune’s site.)

And here is the Center for Nursing Advocacy’s response.

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While I don’t particularly agree with every issue the CNA brings to light, as an ICU nurse I had to chime in on this one. ICU nurses do everything with respect to titrating pain/sedation meds. No, we don’t actually write the order, but we are continually negotiating with the patient and the doctor to get the level of sedation to the point where it serves the patient in his recovery. This is a major part of my job in caring for ventilated patients. It’s disheartening not to see the ICU nurses at Cooper given credit for this.

But the one time a nurse is mentioned:

with Mr. Corzine unable to speak because of the tube connecting his windpipe to the ventilator, David Donaghy, a nurse, read his lips as one way to respond to his wishes for more pain medication or ice water

I really find fault with. Since when is a ventilated patient allowed to have ice water?

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