Help, I am very conflicted about turning peer into nursing board

[auntie72]

I have a floor nurse that administered medication to a patient after the order was dc'd, he failed to draw stat labs, and this patient ended up at the hospital with renal failure and anemia. That same nurse also initialed that he gave a procrit injection as a one time order, but the pharmacy never sent out the medication because it requires admin approval. These 2 instances where written up and given to the DON and the administrator. The MD was very upset and the administrator said this employee would be fired however he is still working and the write ups havent been issued to him. These write ups would have been his dismissal becuase he has already had so many and was given his final last week. I am torn. I feel like since our admininstration isnt doing anything about the unsafe care this nurse has a history of that I should report it to our local nursing board. I know everyone makes mistakes, however this is his trend and it puts our patients at risk. Please give me your thoughts.

[wannabe2008]

Pick up the phone, call the BON is how you do it.

81]How does one report a peer to the BON? Is that even possible?

What evidence (other than your statement) would you have to support your claim?

[caliotter3]

It has been since Oct 11, wonder what resolution has taken place?

[OCNRN63, RN]

Well, I will try. He is very unreasonable, very forgetful, throws staff under the bus, he yells at staff for things out of their control. We got yelled out because the patients were sent to the hospital. No management staff wants to talk with him and every time he is in the room you could cut the air with a knife.

Thank you!

It sounds like there are personality conflicts going on here. You haven't listed anything of substance that would make the nursing board take action.

I agree with the poster who said management may be in the process of terminating him; you just aren't privy to the details. And the "Snitches get stitches" remark cracked me up. That one is going in my mental file for later use.

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

Oh by the way you may want to be careful because the whole description of the situation you've described on here has given quite a bit of information and if that nurse was on here reading your post he could then be the one making a decision to turn you for potential violation of HIPAA and sharing information regarding facility practices.

I've read many of the posts on here and have gone back and forth on whether the OP should report the nurse in question. It is a HIPAA violation to copy chart and keep them to turn this nurse in.

However, the facility does not have HIPAA rights in this situation. There is no such thing as a right to privacy of facility practices, and the facility (or the substandard nurse) could not come after the OP for a HIPAA violation against the facility. If the OP copied and released a new trial or procedure being tested at the facility, the it would be a proprietary issue and their could be legal ramification. HIPPA would not be the concern vis-a-vis facility 'rights.'