Re: Blowing the whistle on your facility
I actually wrote a list of my complaints.
On the floor I worked yesterday I had 41 patients and I'm the only nurse on the floor. I passed all the meds, I had two trached patients (no inner cannulas in sight), 12 wounds to dress, and 5 f/s to do with coverage before lunch. A lot of them are psych patients but it's 3 of them that are aggressive and non-compliant with meds. They go in and out of the facility all of the time for hitting other residents and staff. One has hit 5 people in the last 3 weeks (3 residents, one aide, and a supervisor).
For wound care I did not have any mesalt, solosite or calcium aginate. I had no adhesive dressings only gauze (rolls and 4X4), ABD pads and tape. The irrigation sets had not been changed for the eight GT patients by night shift because we had none. I had no tylenol 325mg, maloox, enteric coated aspirin 325mg. I ran out of albuterol for the nebulizers (had to borrow from another unit). The emergency box is missing...the 02 tanks in the emergency closet were empty and I had no tubing for the tanks or cannisters or tubing for the suction machines. The narcotics don't fit in the narcotic box so they are stored on the med cart. Labs that arrived on Friday were sitting at the nurse's station and no one called the doc with the results. The monthly renewals had not been touched, I'm responsible for charting writing the 24 hour report, auditing the CNA books. The lock on the med fridge is broken and the place has roaches...do I need to go on?
I'm going to delete this later on cuz I don't know maybe I'm giving out TMI.
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