A new grad RN started on our med/surg unit approx 4 months ago. Her goal for the unit, as she stated @ at our last unit meeting, is to change the unit by reorganizing supplies as "SHE" feels would best promote efficiency on the unit. I think that that would be great...but her ideas aren't practicle. Our nurse manager thinks she is the "ideal" role model for the unit. I have come to live by the belief "I trust everyone 100% until they give me a reason not to". After being an RN for 15 years, you just get the intuition that "something just is right"
She (Allison) informed us at the last meeting, that she recently had a patient, who was on a cardiac diet, where her family brought her in a Cheeseburger from McDonalds. Allison did not hesitate to throw the meal the meal in the garbage and told the family that she would reimburse them for the cost of the meal, but as long as she was ordered to be on cardiac diet, the patient will comply with orders whether she liked it or not.
Secondly, I was informed by allison that one of her patients were c/o pain & nausea, however Allison did not feel that the patient's was having as much discomfort as she wanted staff to believe. She told the pat. that she was giving her zofran IV to help treat the nausea, but instead only gave her an injection of normal saline. 15 minutes later the nausea was gone . Are placebos legal especially when a patient is aware that they are receiving it?
