I have been a nurse for over 10 years. Recently the long term care facility in which I work, caught media attention when a male employee was caught performing a sex act on a dementia patient. The police were called, and the worker was terminated and charged with sodomy. Long story short, the proper chain of commands were followed, BUT only once the big wigs of the hospital found out. The administrator and DON knew about the incident for hours, failed to contact police, and falsified witness statements, to try to cover it up. It all backfired, and they were found out. However, despite police knowing they lied to cover it up, and DHSS citing them with a level 1 notice for the attempt, they still hold their jobs. Needless to say, staff has had enough of the corruption, and have notified DHSS with other abuse situations that were covered up by them also. The family of this patient has been told the sugar coated version of story by administration. They have no idea that the administration team attempted to hide this, nor do they know the facility was cited for this. As a genuine nurse and mother, I feel the family needs to know the truth. Would it be out of line to reach out to them and direct them to the proper websites that show the state citation, so they know administration tried to cover up the rape of their loved one? Could doing such come back to ultimately bite the person that tells the family?
