Roost

Yes. I have noticed nurses are falsifying charts because they are being pressured to check a box. Nurse to patient staffing levels are ridiculous. You either kill yourself doing everything you're supposed to do (P.S At the hospitals and Rehab Facilities I've worked at it's impossible) or you chart a bunch of BS. For several days nurses charted a patient had two legs when, in fact, the patient was on the Med/Surg unit because he had had an amputation. Not one day or night shift nurse had been assessing this patient. I wasn't even sure I had the right patient! At a rehab facility a new resident did not get medications for 5 days because the nurses were not looking at the MAR. I always look at the MAR and I have to tell you this resident had no medications. I took his BP and systolic was over 200. Recently I worked at another rehab facility and nurses were repeatedly charting a stroke patient's affected side was one side when it was the other. Nurses are also lying about administering medications that aren't even available or they are taking the medication from someone else. I could go on and on but no one cares. And it doesn't do any good to report problems because then you're labeled a trouble maker. If I could change one thing about my life, it would be my decision to become a nurse. I had hoped to work in a profession where I could do some good. I'm very close to throwing in the towel and going along to get along.. dark days.