Terrie

I happen to think male nurses are great. Most of them know there stuff well and do a good job. If most nurses give them a chance they would find the same thing.:)

She has won, she is free to neglect her patients all she wants too. They said she has been a nurse for a long time so she has to be taking care of her patients. If I knew I could tell the family about it and not get in trouble I would! She can sit behind the desk and sleep in peace now because I quit. As of Dec 17 I am going to registry. She is no longer my problem and it is not my license on the line anymore. I like the way management closes their eyes to patient neglect. It is a sad world when nurses are aloud to neglect their patients and get away with it!

I am very proud of being a nurse. That is all I ever wanted to be. I help people, I care for people, I help them physically, mentally, and spirtually. I am ashamed that nurse are push around, walked on, and expected to jump at managements every word. If it was not for us they would not have a leg to stand on.

The Unit meeting came and went. They did not mandate OT or 12 hour shifts and they are not going to schedule us over our status. Too many people said they would walk. They had us put up suggestions. The lazy nurse that neglects her patients is being investigated and they are talking to every nurse that works CCU. She is ticked off at me:o I will have to let you know how it ends.

night owl, Thank you. I do care about patients and I feel that there needs to be some kind of screening for people that want to become nurses. Patient neglect will come back to haunt her I am sure I would just like to be there to see it. I just got an email from my boss that the persons investigating my complaint will be at work to see me Monday morning. I do not intend on holding anything back. My relation ship with this nurse is only professional and I have decided to point out her neglect to her everytime I see it in a professional way of course. I will no longer bite my tongue. What she is doing is wrong and I can not care for her patients and mine too so as long as she works with me she is going to be encouraged to do her job professionally of course. I am still going another interview next week and if I do leave everyone will know why I am leaving including her!!!

deespoohbear, Everyone keeps telling me to document. Where am I supposed to document this stuff. I have every email I have sent to management and higher up. Is this what you are talking about? There is only one other nurse that works with her on a regular bases and she just told me this morning that this particular nurse slept all night. The down fall is that both of these nurse sleep during the night so one will not tell on the other. This other nurses states that she does not check on her work because it is not her job. I did not check on her work either It just happened that with the ones I did report I was in her patients rooms more than she was. I do know that one family member demanded that this nurse never enter her room again and this was reported by family members but nothing ever became of it. With our post-op recovery pts family is not usually at bedside so there is no one to tell on her except for the pt who is coming out of sedation. Who are they going to believe! The manager on the med-surg unit is taking all for her nurses complaints to the DON which is also the manager over CCU and the one I have been complaining too. I has done no good.

You have a wonderful way of looking at things. I will try your suggestion. By the way if her back side spreads much more than it has she will not fit in the chair. I guess she has been neglecting her patients for a long time.

Nur20, You are a wise person and your suggestions are taken straight to the heart. If they do not do anything after the investigation I am already setting up interviews. I just feel that there are one of these people every where you go:o Where does it stop:confused: Why is management so willing to harbor these type of money milkers:( You are right my license is not worth this job but who is going to stand up for these patients?????

Nur20, I understand that I need to walk a straight line and keep my facts straight but it really doesn't matter if they want to get ride of me they will. I do not kiss managements back side and she does. (I REALLY HATE PEOPLE LIKE THIS). I have not stated anything but facts and I told them to look at the charts but I cannot make them do that. I have refused to care for patients after she cares for them because I do not want my name on the chart, I do not want to be involve in a law suit. She has call pts wimps to their face, she has denied post op pts pain meds because she did not believe they should be in pain, she is totally incompent and a hugh liability. To management she is a warm body to cover the floor in this day of nursing shortages,

This is a great deal of the problem she has been there longer than I have and she knows what she can get away with. Also, we are the only two nurses on the unit so its my word against hers. She did not chart that she turned these patients and I don't even think management looked at the charts. No one will stand behind me completely because they have complained before and nothing was ever done so they see it as a lost cause. They tell me that it will not do any good to complain. So I guess I am suppose to sit back and let the patients suffer.

The supervisor thinks she is boss so there for she does nothing. I finally got administration to investigate the complaint. My manager is mad enough to fire me!!! I guess I will wait and see what happens. Honesty and being a patient advocate does not do any good but I have to continue to do it or I will not be able to live with my self.

I work with a nurse that does nothing but sit behind the desk and charts pages of nurses notes. How can you chart care on a patient you only see one time, especially in CCU? She had a post-op pt that was 92yrs old who had pneumonia before surgery and we could not keep his sats above 90%! She did not turn him for her entire shift on two nights in a row. She had a pt with a radial art line that was leaking/bleeding instead of attempting manual pressure she sandbaged it and gave him a hugh hematoma, she had orders to pull it if it kept bleeding or quit working. However she "Wanted the BP's from the line as long as it continues to work". On another occasion I was in a room with my pt cleaning up his bottom (GI bleed) and my other pts IV started beeping. It was a NTG gtt and our pumps do not stop they run at KVO while they are beeping. She sat on her buttocks behind the nurses station talking to the house supervisor and allowed the pump to beep until I was done (10 min later)! I guess my pt my problem!!! She emails the entire unit about how messy the nurses station is and how people form their opinions on what they see first yet she has never got up stocked a cart, emptied trash, taken out laundry, cleaned a room, etc. I could go on and on! Yes it has all been reported to the boss and nothing was done:confused:

We are taught how to do it in ACLS and PALS because we are a small hospital and if we were to have more than one code (which has happened) someone would have to intubate the pt. But if there is someone more qualified in the room I will be the first one to step back and let them have at it. We always have RT in the building and we have an ER doc so we would most likely never have to do it.