i can't be to specific about what happened this weekend at work . but i'll tell you about it the best i can...
a nurse i work with had 5 patients in a row and one across the hall. the nurse did alot of talking and wind bagging that day , and not much else i think..... well she gave report to the oncoming shift and the pt had accu checks.... the nurse coming on was handed a accucheck sheet by the out going nurse. the nurse for the new nurse went in the room and the daughter stated " there has not been a nurse here much all day, and why didn't my mother get her pills? mind you this pt dosen't speak english and there is a family member all the time with her.... the oncoming nurse said she ( out going nurse ).. did do accuchecks here is the sheet right here and see it was done. the daughter said that was a lie and she has been there on and off all day and those accuchecks were not done ...., and there was family because someone is always there. the pt's family member came in and said " come now to think of it my aunt didn't get her pills or iv antibotics today." so that confirmed the daughters suspions...
well the charge nurse was called and the pixus was checked and no meds were given for 32 hours and they printed off a copy of the meds give for that patient. the mar was signed as all the meds were given and the accucheck sheet was signed as done.
i am in shock because this nurse is a excellent nurse and i don't know why she would do that. i don't want legal advice but i just want to vent. i guess it made me sick to my stomach , i work hard all day and i am in and out of pt's rooms all the time. so sad, hope she dosen't loose her license over this . but if it were my mother i wold sue the hospital if this is proven correct.
thank you all in advance for listening... :angryfire
Specializes in Med-Surg, HH, Tele, Geriatrics, Psych.
Unfortunately, I have seen this happen a few times myself. It takes a lot to get that nurse fired, for some reason. When they do finally let her go, she just applies somewhere else and starts the same pattern. I have SEEN it happen!
If all the lazy, thoughtless nurses who didn't do much of their jobs were fired and kept from going from one facility to another, there would be a lot of available positions for good workers and a lot of patients would be getting the care they deserve.
If all the lazy, thoughtless nurses who didn't do much of their jobs were fired and kept from going from one facility to another, there would be a lot of available positions for good workers and a lot of patients would be getting the care they deserve.
Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
I agree that if people were terminated due to actions, more appreciative nurses would be hired that would provide better care and teamwork.
There are excellent agency nurses that come to our facility that make some of the incumbent hired staff need to bow down in shame. Yet, many of these agency nurses will not be hired due to the economy...sad...simply sad.
Specializes in acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c.
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i have gone in pts rooms before and family member would either be sleeping, in the bathroom or gone down stairs to get food/snacks and when i return later they would say mom/dad/ didn't get so-in-so. then i would investigate and come to find out they were not there, were sleeping or whatever .
again, some thing is not right with this picture!
this is very true. just because a family member says it doesn't mean it is true. families and patients say all kinds of things. sometimes its just a case of them missing you when you do make an appearance or the pt being forgetful. once in a great while you get a pt with psych issues that likes to start trouble. we had one of those that would be your best friend while you were on and then bad mouth you to the nurse on the next shift. she would tell drs and anybody eles who would listen that you left her in pain or wouldn't take her to the br, didn't give her lunch etc.
or it could be a case of mistaken identity. did she get pts mixed up and give all this ladies meds to somebody else?
Oh man, this kind of stuff steams me. there is no excuse for nurses not to do their jobs and there is especially no excuse for making things up. What a maroon...
I worked with a nurse one night who had been pulled out of L&D to work with us on post-partum. she was mad and pretty much complained and slammed drawers and stomped around all night. She had a patient who was going to be C-sectined in the morning. I don't know whether she checked on the girl or not, but she charted "7am--pt up, performing self-care. Fetal heart tones strong, fetus moving." The only thing was, when L&D came to get the patient AT 6AM, they couldn't get fetal heart tones and the baby was dead! Saddest thing I've ever witnessed. Not only that, but the nurse went back and altered the chart! AAAAAAAARGGH!
OMG that story makes me sick.. I hope that nurse is no longer practicing.
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Bugaloo
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Unfortunately, I have seen this happen a few times myself. It takes a lot to get that nurse fired, for some reason. When they do finally let her go, she just applies somewhere else and starts the same pattern. I have SEEN it happen!