Causes of losing your license?

[Libby1987]

I'm not asking about drug use, intentional fraud etc but due to clinical/medical errors.

We have a new nurse (graduated 2 yrs ago and new to HH) who is afraid of making a mistake and losing her license. I asked if she knew of anyone who had and they were related to illegal behavior.

What type of errors has anyone lost their license? Missing an important finding? Med error? Unintentional physical harm to a patient?

[JKL33]

On 12/31/2019 at 5:04 PM, Scorpiohoutz said:

So can you lose your license for not doing something for someone right when they ask, even if it doesn't cause harm to the person? Like not digging around for a remote to raise the head of bed or taking a blood sugar when the person says their blood sugar is not low? This say happened when in middle of doing other things that needed done on time limit.

Or be fired and they call it abuse?

The BON's involvement in what seem like trivial matters on the surface may be related to the nature of the allegations. If abuse is alleged I would expect them to get involved, assuming it is reported to them.

If you are working in a situation where you know you are doing your very best and are doing right and not wrong and yet you are at actual risk for being reported for these types of things (and you aren't leaving anything out), then you need to find another job and quit this one ASAP.

[Scorpiohoutz]

27 minutes ago, JKL33 said:

The BON's involvement in what seem like trivial matters on the surface may be related to the nature of the allegations. If abuse is alleged I would expect them to get involved, assuming it is reported to them.

If you are working in a situation where you know you are doing your very best and are doing right and not wrong and yet you are at actual risk for being reported for these types of things (and you aren't leaving anything out), then you need to find another job and quit this one ASAP.

So can you lose your license for not doing something for someone right when they ask, even if it doesn't cause harm to the person? Like not digging around for a remote to raise the head of bed or taking a blood sugar when the person says their blood sugar is not low? This say happened when in middle of doing other things that needed done on time limit.

Cause my problem w this place is cnas have been found to not change someone all 8 hrs, that the previous shift had marked briefs. Cnas have reported this, since the residents were non verbal. Yet management wont do anything.im very sad.