Dangerous nurses

[funmom]

Have any of you ever worked with a nurse you would classify as dangerous ---- dangerous as a nurse and as a person?

[aloevera]

we just had a nurse (long time nurse) draw blood from a pts. jugular....

I don't know what she was thinking...evidently, she wasn't....

the other night a nurse gave the wrong med to a pt. and she went in to resp. distress...stopped breathing....luckily she did make it..

I see multiple med errors quite frequently...I write them up but nothing is done because they remain...

[heron, ASN, RN]

OMGosh, I hope you feel better also, when really reading, line breaks aren't needed,

if one only skims, they can mis-read and lose the point. play nice now... ;-)

OT ALERT!!! Not true ... dense single spaced writing in long unbroken paragraphs is not only hard to read, it hurts some of us old folks with bifocals. It's not about lazy, it's about old eyes. When I see them, I don't skim, I skip.

End derail ....

[merri666]

My husband stopped a nurse from trying to give lortab elixir as an IV push one night...I guess everyone has "moments" but it is getting ridiculuous. I went for a job interview today... I went ahead and told the DON that I am "old school" and I don't put up with crap and I am too old and too tired to take it. I told her it would save time for her to know that up front...

[LilyBlue]

I worked with a nurse who administered Magnesium IVP over about two seconds.

I also worked with a nurse who used to not wash her own hands after she went to the bathroom, including BM. I wish I was kidding. She also picked her nose and ate her buggers. Then she'd provide patient care.

[JohnBearPA]

about the order for KCL not being d/c'd, and kaexalate given at the same time,,,,, doesn't anyone do chart checks in this facility? There's more than one nurse at fault here. it's still terrible that it wasn't caught sooner.

[lamazeteacher]

I worked with a nurse who administered Magnesium IVP over about two seconds.

I also worked with a nurse who used to not wash her own hands after she went to the bathroom, including BM. I wish I was kidding. She also picked her nose and ate her buggers. Then she'd provide patient care.

I hope you referred the above situation to the Infection Control Nurse, who might have had someone with disinfectant in hand, follow the path "typhoid Mary" left, and clean it up, taking cultures of her hands, nose and stool before she was fired.

As far as the former one goes, I've never given Mg IVP, so I'd have read the label, looked up instructions or admitted to someone that I had no idea how fast it should be given or what the parameters were....... before giving it.

[Magsulfate, BSN, RN]

I worked with a nurse who administered Magnesium IVP over about two seconds.

I also worked with a nurse who used to not wash her own hands after she went to the bathroom, including BM. I wish I was kidding. She also picked her nose and ate her buggers. Then she'd provide patient care.

:barf01::barf01::barf01:

[RN1982]

delete.

[loricatus]

So the dangerous nurse that worked on my unit is now gone. It was about time.

I wish the one where I work was gone. This one is getting worse and I think she has Munchausen by Nurse (proxy) syndrome. Reported the nurse to ALL managers, with specifics on med errors witnessed & distress inflicted on patients, along with other things I can't discuss here, only to have them fire another nurse for a bogus reason (that dangerous nurse set up). This prompted the dangerous nurse to get worse because of feeling job security.

I seriously do not know what to do about this one. I can't think of anyone else to report this to and I cannot keep watching this nurse to prevent patient harm and still care for my patients.

And, I am serious about the Munchausen's, although I am coining the phrase 'by nurse'. This one has all the traits described ("poor impulse control, self-destructive behavior, borderline or passive-aggressive personality trait or disorder"). Still am in shock that administration lets this sicko attend to patients and has let a decent nurse go.

Wish the economy were better so I can get out.

[azhiker96, BSN, RN]

Only thing I can think of is use your incident reporting system to report to risk management. That puts them on notice that she's dangerous and makes it much more painful (expensive) when/if she harms a patient.

[loricatus]

Only thing I can think of is use your incident reporting system to report to risk management. That puts them on notice that she's dangerous and makes it much more painful (expensive) when/if she harms a patient.

No risk management at the private hospital I work at. But, you gave me an idea about reporting this to the Joint Commission (hospital is accredited). Thanks

[RN1982]

I wish the one where I work was gone. This one is getting worse and I think she has Munchausen by Nurse (proxy) syndrome. Reported the nurse to ALL managers, with specifics on med errors witnessed & distress inflicted on patients, along with other things I can't discuss here, only to have them fire another nurse for a bogus reason (that dangerous nurse set up). This prompted the dangerous nurse to get worse because of feeling job security.

I seriously do not know what to do about this one. I can't think of anyone else to report this to and I cannot keep watching this nurse to prevent patient harm and still care for my patients.

And, I am serious about the Munchausen's, although I am coining the phrase 'by nurse'. This one has all the traits described ("poor impulse control, self-destructive behavior, borderline or passive-aggressive personality trait or disorder"). Still am in shock that administration lets this sicko attend to patients and has let a decent nurse go.

Wish the economy were better so I can get out.

Why don't you just report her to the board?