Clau

Hello Nurses, I am a psychiatric nurse for a clinic where we provide mental health services . We serve adult and adolescents. I was recently put in an uncomfortable situation and I would like to address it to see what are our legal rights as nurses when it comes to these type of situations. So, I was assigned an adol client, this client had to go to hospital. Once LA fire and transportation arrived, we the staff were informed that someone from the facility had to go with the client since they are a minor. This is something I never had to do. And we could not reach their legal guardian. Nobody wanted to go so for the sake of the client getting medical treatment I accompanied, however I made it known at the hospital that I was not their legal guardian nor was I signing anything nor making any medical decisions for client. I left hospital only to find out the hospital called the facility requesting someone had to be there present. I wrote an email to my supervisors regarding the incident but haven't heard back from them. Are we legally required to go per LA fire's request? Is this within our scope of practice as an LVN? I don't feel comfortable doing something like this again without knowing my legal rights.

Avery Home Health.

Unfortunately that’s how it is and how it’s going to be in LTC/SNF’s. I was a CNA for 10 years and you’re right it never was like this from what I remember. Now I am an LVN. That’s one of the reasons why I quit my FT job at a snf. I was tired of dealing with insubordinate CNA’s who wanted to boss you around or down right not listen to you. What’s worst was that the DSD didn’t do nothing, but claimed to talk to the CNA’s. I remember I had told a CNA to clean one of her pt’s who was soiled but she decided to go to her lunch break first. I wrote her up and got my DON and DSD involved but nothing happened: or this other time I did an abuse report and handed it over to the Admin, instead of suspending and investigating the CNA, he was being lenient towards her. I remember she wanted to run the show by selecting her run, and when she didn’t get her way she went to go cry to the admin and the admin came rushing to me as to why she didn’t get what she wanted if she came to work 16hrs to help out. So basically he sided with the aide. I quit after that. Not worth the money and stress. I am now doing 1-1 care home health. And I can say it is waay better. My stress level has gone down. I’m happier.