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Killer Nurses

i was recently watching a show about deadly woman, and i came across a story about a group of nurses that killed their patients. they drowned them, which took about 45min. they did not do it because they wanted to save them and be the hero or anything. they did it because the patients pushed the call light button constantly.

;) what does that tell you?!

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Don't push your call button?

  • Admin
what does that tell you?!

they are murderers and murderesses?

where did you read/hear about the story? i'm curious.

  • Author

Where did you read/hear about the story? I'm curious.

On the discovery channel. This happen back in the 1980s in Vienna.

I was rather tickled (not by killing) because I thought of all the times so many nurses have wanted to kill (not literally) thier patients because of the excessive call light pushing for thing that they could easily do themselves. I do believe that the nurses were thought to have killed over 300 patients. The thing I find truly horrid is the way they killed them, by drowning.

SORRY I did get the time period wrong! I confused it with another nursing insident that happen in 1700s.

Interesting that they had call light buttons in the 1700's, which was before electricity was harnessed for every day use. Also that was prior to Florence starting our wonderful profession. And the patients must have been very strong to take 45 minutes to drown! Have a good Independence Day everyone.

The thing that I find hard to believe is that they had call lights in the 1700s.

i'm sure they were bells

Maybe we should show this discovery channel show/video as part of room orientation for frequent flyer/ difficult patients. makes you think about those call buttons! LOL;)

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I've googled and googled and cannot find a link to 1700's Vienna, but did find about 4 nurses who killed elderly patients in the 80's.

They pressed down the tongue of a victim with a spatula and dripped water into the victim´s mouth - they died by drowning. As water in the lungs of elderly patients is not uncommon and they were usually in bad health, there was no suspicion for years.

it could be fatal to be "annoying".......to wetten the bed or to ring once too often for the nurse...

http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/W/WAGNER_waltraud_et_al.htm

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I did not pay much attention to the program so I am not even sure that I got the time period right, only the crime. I listen in on during study time. It also didnt help that it was 2:00 a.m.

~sigh~

  • Author
I've googled and googled and cannot find a link to 1700's Vienna, but did find about 4 nurses who killed elderly patients in the 80's.

http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/W/WAGNER_waltraud_et_al.htm

I just wanted to thank Siri for googling. I read the article and that was the case. Sorry everyone. This is the case they were talking about.

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OT: this is an excellent example of why our charting as nurses is so important. Memory is faulty. If you are asked about something that happened with a patient who-knows-how-long-ago, your notes of that day are all you'll have to refer to. I was called in a non-health care related case recently, and referred to an old appointment calendar about events on a date two years past.

On topic: it's important to know as a nurse when you're due for a mental health day ;).

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