False Documentation

Depends on what the BON in her state decides to do. It could be suspended, could have limits placed on it, could be revoked. In Oregon the BON publishes their disciplinary decisions on their website, kind of like a modern day police blotter of all the things they've done for all the nurses/nursing assistants in Oregon who haven't been meeting the standards.

MurrR, thanks for replying. her RN license is from CA

Has she been contacted by the state BON? If not, this may never have been reported to them. Her facility may have terminated her, cleaned it up and swept it under the rug. Unless you can provide more info, I think she may be okay.

Depends on the manager and if s/he reports it to the RN Board.

It really is a shame when someone has to falsly document a B/P, however, I will say that I've been in that same situation.....and never do I falsify records. If for example I don't have "time" to get a b/p I admit it. Are you saying she didn't get the b/p at the beginning of the shift? Or she didn't get it during the crisis.

The administrator reported it to the BON. 4 months after the incident, she received a letter from the Department of consumer affairs asking her to authorize them to release her personnel records - where she used to work. After authorizing to release her records, anyone has any idea what will happen next?

The administrator reported it to the BON. 4 months after the incident, she received a letter from the Department of consumer affairs asking her to authorize them to release her personnel records - where she used to work. After authorizing to release her records, anyone has any idea what will happen next?

So sorry to hear of her predicament and not sure what may or may not happen. Falsifying documentation is not a good thing at all. The problem here, as I see it, is a nurse with too many patients to care for and one who probably should have been in a hospital setting and for whatever reason wasn't. It could also have been a case of not having enough time to do even a minimal assessment of all patients at the start of the shift. I have had occasion to be asked to work an extra night shift on SNF, One nurse to 35 patients with 1 aide - I said 'no indeed'. When a nurse accepts an assignment, no matter how complicated or difficult, she has to live with the consesquences. I have often said 'no'.

i don't understand why she falsified the BP. She could have had a CNA get the blood pressure while she checked on other patients. If the blood pressure was abnormally low or too high then we call 911. It covers our butt and could have saved the patient. I understand that there was an overwhelming work load as there typically is in LTC, but there is usually assistance from unlicensed personnel. I wouldn't work somewhere where I didn't have back up. If she was falsifying something so simple like a BP, what else could she be falsifying? sorry to say but this is not a safe nurse.