Recently, our "manager" has been deliberately going behind people to remove a "mandatory object" after rooms have been set up for days to see if the staff is checking the room every shift. It could be taking the 02 connection set up apart in a room where the pt is on room air, unscrewing the flowmeter, disconnecting the suction tubing that runs behind the patient's headboard, taking the yankuer out of the room, or replaced a water pitcher with an unlabeled one. Now, I'm all for making sure things are set up right, but deliberately sabotaging people? Seems odd to me. I know if I set up my room yesterday on admission, I expect it all to still be there the next day; unless the patient transferred rooms, there should be no reason for anything to be missing. I give a cursory glance around during report, but I don't thoroughly check it after I've already worked a shift with that patient. I get that sometimes things get taken down or removed, but doing it on purpose? I feel like I have more important things to do than checking behind myself every day now that I'm concerned my manager took something in between shifts. Does anyone else have managers or teams that come and do this?
