The problem wasn't with the nursing staff. They were wonderful. In ICU one nurse took care of two patients. Each in a separate room. Much of the time they were in and out of the room but I was not coherrent enough to express my needs. Then when I found the pump I was additinally incoherent from that. I had prepared a list of comunication needs, had a dry erase board I never used and wrote most messages on index cards. I have terrible hand writting(once accused of learning to write in the dark) and some of what I tried to communicate did not make much sense.