Published Dec 8, 2003
NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN
10 Articles; 18,926 Posts
Drug-Addicted Facility Administrator Stole Senior's Pain Medication
Posted on: 08/21/2003
http://www.alsuccess.com/hotnews/38h2112712.html
jadednurse
435 Posts
Wow! How very sad for this patient who suffered...
AndiMac
40 Posts
Could you sleep at night knowing what you had done?
rollingstone
244 Posts
The nurses should have spoke up sooner.
CCU NRS
1,245 Posts
IN MY OPINION
I mean I understand that junkies are junkies etc. But as a nurse to go so far down the road to addiction that you are steeling the pain patches right off of the Pts is lower than a street junkie holding up a 7-11 with a gun.
We really need NUW
ktwlpn, LPN
3,844 Posts
What a shame-we have to check the resident's patch every shift and sign off on the MAR that we have done so.........
ilovetheelderly
23 Posts
We have to check for the placement of these Fentanyls' and sign off in the MAR!!! This is the lowest of the lowest, how sick and there must've not been regular staff because someone should've noticed and where were the checks in place. Other people must be reprimanded because staff on the whole unit was ultimately responsible if they were her caregivers. At our facility, we keep our CNA'S on the same cluster for 2 to 3 mths and even sometimes longer depending on the unit which may even have their residents permanently to have these kind of safeguards in place to protect residents from these ugly possible scenarios (including physical abuse, neglect, mistreatment, etc). This way there is a smaller pool of people that were responsible for these residents if something so bizarre was to ever happen, God forbid!!