Dsmcrn

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1. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

   Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   All 3 patients required/had continuous tele monitoring orders and there was no way to do this in the ICU with the avail equipment. THAT is why she refused mow and the fact that two patients died in a short time frame due to this exact reason and she...

2. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

   Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Nurses are forgetting the basic premise... it is doing the right thing. Ethical thing. Just because we don’t HAVE TO work at a crappy hospital does not mean we won’t or our loved ones won’t wind up in an unsafe hospital. Hospitals receive emergenc...

3. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

   Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   https://hospitalwatchdog.org/no-continuous-monitoring-for-some-cvicu-patients/

4. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

   Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   You are absolutely correct. Also, the downgrade patient DID require monitoring. It’s a CVICU and the court documents line out how the down grades DID require monitoring. They had orders to be monitored and the hospital didn’t have the capability and ...

5. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

   Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Yes ma’am and amen!

6. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

   Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   It changed something! It changed a nurse from accepting the status quo and deciding she wasn’t going to just conform anymore. Then... her courage inspired another nurse to do the same and then her courage will inspire another nurse to do the same... ...

7. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

   Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   https://hospitalwatchdog.org/no-continuous-monitoring-for-some-cvicu-patients/

8. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

   Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   https://hospitalwatchdog.org/no-continuous-monitoring-for-some-cvicu-patients/

9. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

   Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Julie is not without a job she gained employment right away and has remained employed to this day

10. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

    Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Amen!

11. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

    Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    They didn’t have the monitoring ability for her to take a 3rd. If the patient who should have been downgraded would have been downgraded a monitor tech would have been watching the patient. There were no monitor techs in the ICU. julie is very coura...

12. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

    Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It’s courageous that Julie finally said she wasn’t going to do it anymore. She has months and months of proof In writing that her leaders told her she had to document the attestation at the end of every shift or be fired which is what happened when s...

13. ICU Nurse Fired For Refusing 3rd Patient

    Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Juan, Details can’t all be in an article due to brevity! Julie has months and months of emails she covered her behind with regarding going up the chain of command and they did nothing! I’m proud of her for speaking up!

14. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

15. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    Dsmcrn replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Wuzzie, I was simply stating the practice of the Physicians in the area of the nation that I work. I am leaving this thread as well.