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Davey, thank you for your story! I know things like this happen all the time, but I had never seen it affect loved ones in this way. To know that these nurses have children that they have to feed and truly love their careers as nurses and now they are being blackballed and ridiculed because their whistleblowing may have affected the hospital administrators bonuses just makes me sick. Money isn’t everything, folks!!

Here’s the story if you want to read up on it. https://www.Google.com/amp/s/www.11alive.com/amp/article/news/investigations/the-reveal/judge-rules-on-athens-nurse-lawsuit-against-landmark-hospital/85-3099b1ab-0041-421e-abeb-7edb55868b30

Yes, please

Yes and most of the bullying and suspensions and firing has happened while they had attorneys. The $500/hr hospitals attorney’s are putting these nurses through the ringer. It’s awful. No government agency cares and I've tried and tried to reach out to nursing organizations for them and nothing from them either.

Well there are 5 nurses I know who were bullied for speaking out, then suspended, still bullied on social media and in the community, then sued, and now fired.

My advice is if you see something terribly wrong just ignore it or you’ll get sued and be fired by your employer. They have more money and more lawyers than you could even imagine. They will beat you down and make you regret becoming a nurse.

UPDATE: These nurses who reported their hospital to multiple government agencies with no action from the government. The hospital was falsely identifying tracheal samples as nasal samples. Tellingly anytime someone has tested positive with a correctly identified nasal sample the hospital administrators have went behind this positive result and retested the patient to secure a negative with the falsely identified specimen. The judge dismissed the portion of the suit that requested an emergency restraining order to stop the actions of the hospital but the rest of the suit still stands. The nurses are getting sued by the hospital and it breaks my heart that these Whistleblowers are being broken down by a giant team of attorneys probably getting paid $400/hr just for one attorney! The hospitals attorneys are saying the Nurses don’t have a right to bring suit against the hospital because the patients or the government could. Well I’ll tell you what. These nurses are patient advocates so how do they not have a right to fight on behalf of their patients?!! See article: Judge denies nurses' restraining order request in Landmark Hospital of Athens case

The DPH just didn’t look! After reading their report it’s apparent that they only asked to see paperwork regarding policies and procedures for infection control and nursing services. OSHA let the nurses down too as well as the Dept of health and human services.

I think maybe I didn’t word my question correctly. I meant when a patient is in the hospital and they have Covid like symptoms but they test negative initially do you have a standard where you test the patient again every 3 days?

Nursing is hard enough without having to deal with this ... These nurses are some very brave souls to fight the Hospital administrators, some doctors, and the government in this small Georgia hospital. 'I think the judge is wrong': Nurses lose against Athens hospital accused of manipulating COVID-19 test results

How often do you perform Covid tests on the units? Every 3 days?