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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 wasn’t going to allow it to happen again as long as she was in that unit

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 emergencies. A patient cannot choose where to have an emergency

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

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 didn’t provide a means to do so. Also, the court documents show HCA billed CMS at an ICU level of care 1:2 when the nurses had 3. Assignment sheets were provided to the judge showing this.

Yes ma’am and amen!

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... and then....... we aren’t just a profession that takes it.. we begin to become a profession that is doing something about it. Again i applaud her courage!

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

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

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

Amen!

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 courageous to finally say she wasn’t going to allow people to continue to be at risk and her sit by idle and quiet. It wasn’t in one moment she chose to fight a battle it was after months and months possibly years of these situations and leadership not caring! Proud of you julie

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 she said she wasn’t going to do it anymore. thank you Julie! For your courage!

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!

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.