Once upon a time, as a new grad, I worked in an ICU in TN. Very small, 6 beds. Theis hospital had this certain patient who would call the ER to tell them he was coming in. When he came to the ER, he was ALWAYS admitted. So, one night, right after I started, the NM comes in and says, "Jeffy's on his way to the ER. Here's a list. Run to town and get this stuff for him." The list included a certain kind of yogurt, KFC extra-crispy chicken, Mickey-D's fries, a Blizzard from DQ, and a few other things.
I asked for the keys to the hospital van, and she said that not only was I expected to go in MY car, but that I was supposed to PAY for this stuff!
"Just get the receipts. We'll deal with THAT later. Hurry up. If it isn't here when he gets here, he'll call Mr. Sands (The hospital CEO)."
I looked her dead in the face and started cackling. I couldn't help it. It was so ridiculous.
Add that into the fact that this ICU had open visitation, we could not curb visitors. And the one time I was pulled from the unit to the floor to "help" for a few hours, I was given the NM's patient load, whereupon, she promptly sat down, put her feet up, and said "OK, who brought the UNO cards tonight? I'm ready to play!":banghead: I was not long at that hospital.
Well this happened before I came to my current job. Some of the higher ups thought that they needed to make sure that the residents that wanted to have sex, could have sex. The problem is that those residents couldn't do the job themselves. So they were going to start a program where staff would "assist" these people. My charge nurse made a big stink and told those higher ups that they could not expect staff to do that. She futher told them, that if they wanted this program so bad, they should be the first ones to "assist". Well they did - on one couple. For some reason, that program died after that.
WHAT??????? :barf01::barf01::barf01:
I know we had a LOT of skills sheck offs in nursing school, but I must have beenn sick that day!!!!!!!!!!
It seems pretty mild compared to some of these other posts but..
I was working at a small correctional facility. We had this inmate who was staying in the medical unit despite the fact that we had no infirmary; no security posted within the unit; and policies that clearly prohibit inmates in medical without a security escort. He would just sort of hang out in medical all day and have medical call for security to take him back to his cell when he was ready for bed.
The prison would rent him movies daily from the local video store. They also purchased for him chocolate ice cream and milk. As per our administrator's instructions the nurses were to rewind his videos and replace them with new tapes as needed and prepare for him chocolate milkshakes when he requested.
This was a daily routine for probably two months. I was always curious as to what the true story was behind the special treatment but never found out.
The inmate reportedly managed to fall down a flight of stairs which resulted in him having a fractured leg and a few assorted injuries. He was ambulatory with his crutches (it isn't uncommon to have WC bound inmates in general population) and didn't have any medical reason to need to be in medical all the time or have extra nursing supervision. We didn't even have an infirmary...if his condition was bad enough to warrant infirmary care he'd have had to been transferred to another facility. His arrangement all came down through both the heads of security and the medical administrator and wasn't at all kept secret. Do anything remotely like this for some random inmate and you'd most likely be terminated or put under investigation on the spot.
This was at a privatized prison. In my experience the privatized ones do seem to have more "perks" but nothing like this. I'm sure there was an interesting story buried behind it, but I never did hear anything as to what that might be.
When I worked as an LPN at an inpt hospice unit, pts and their familiy members were allowed to keep their pets with them on the unit. I was required to pooper-scoop them.
chicookie, BSN, RN
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I could have sworn that was in a nurses job description! NOT!