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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...