JordanRose

That is beyond ridiculous! He can't sign for his own treatment until he is 18, why should a parent be denied access to his medical records?

After a very bad experience a few years ago, I post absolutely nothing on social media about my job. As far as I might go is "I had a good day." I don't even have where I work listed on my social media profile, nor do I friend any co workers on my social media pages. I actually go as far as to block any current co workers from being able to find me on social media. I trust no one on social media. My employer has a pretty strict social media policy and my guess is you that you were in violation of your employer's social media policy.

I had a supervisor try this nonsense on me when my husband had to have emergency surgery the next day. I told her "I don't think so." I would check the your employee handbook, ASAP.

Our office is part of a larger health care network. "ACME" health network policy is that any patient who has more than 2 narcotic prescriptions written for chronic pain are required to sign a controlled medication contract. Patients are subject to random drug screen tests at any time. You can also be asked to bring your prescription bottle in for a pill count at any time. It is pretty much standard operating procedures anymore. It stinks for those who are following the rules, but a few bad apples have ruined it for everyone.

I didn't know that any hospital in the US still did paper charting. I didn't mind the paper charting, but everything now is electronic. I think there is some definite advantages to paper charting vs electronic. Paper charting is so much easier to do narrative charting which no matter what the power to be think, there will be a place for in medical documentation. Electronic charting is definitely easier for reading, but sometimes I find it hard to get the "whole picture" of the patient in an electronic chart. Hang in there. You probably won't have to do it for very long.

No way can a series of clicks give you the total picture of what happens during a code, or some other situation. I have dealt with some crazy family situations that needed documented, along with crazy patients. Just being able to "click" everything is a pipe dream.

And that is downright scary.

Not only unfriend her or him, but block them too. Immediately.

Wow. And that is what is exactly what is wrong with a big part of society today. Everyone thinks they have to be first and foremost, and to hell with everyone else. If your loved one wants to take a walk and the pt in the next room is coding, sorry the walk will have to wait. And I would have no problem telling the family of the pt who wanted to take a walk "I am sorry, but I am in the middle of an emergency right now. I will assist you in walking once the emergency has been resolved." At that point, I could care less about the precious patient survey. Period.

In the 16 years I worked bedside in the hospital, the only time I contracted something from a pt was scabies. The pt had been misdiagnosed and I was exposed prior to taking isolation precautions. I was exposed to whooping cough, chicken pox, poss TB, more MRSA than I care to count, VRE, etc. A few times that I did get my scrubs soiled with visible blood, urine, feces, etc, I just took them to the hospital laundry service and they washed them on site. I thought that might have been an OSHA requirement, but I could be wrong. You will be fine.

My current pet peeve is when people add the letter "y" to words, such as cucumber-y, vinegar-y. Hate it with a passion.

Nope. The harm is to the patients who are not getting their needed medications. I worked with a nurse who was given multiple chances to get clean (because she was a pet of the DON), and she failed every time. If you know you are diverting, than man up and get help for yourself. Probably better than to do that then to allow someone report you.

A co worker's family member is a patient of our specialty practice. I know that the co worker (the doctor's nurse)has been in her family member's chart for various reasons when the pt calls and requests refills, to schedule appointments, etc. There are several nurses in this practice who could enter the information in the patient's chart. Isn't this a HIPAA violation if an employee is in the patient's (family member) chart? Shouldn't that nurse ask another nurse to the patient's calls and document what has been done. I would think that this co worker would want to turn her family member over to another member of the nursing staff and let that employee handle the information. Am I wrong in thinking that? TIA

I thought I would just update this thread. Four weeks after my original post, I was terminated from my job that I had mentioned in the original post. When that happened, I thought my world was over! Bedside nursing was the only thing I knew in my career as a nurse. After 2 months of doing some agency work (in nursing homes...God bless those of you who work in LTC!), I landed in an office job. I loved it immediately! I leave at the end of the day not concerned about whether I may have missed something that would lead to a pt's decline. No more working holidays or weekends. Still have crazy patients and families, but contact time with them is very limited! I come home at night not feeling like i have been through a war zone. I actually have the energy to stop by the grocery store or a department store and shop! My husband says I am a whole different person when I come home from work now. Even though I took a huge paycut, my benefits are much better and so is my health insurance! As our office is owned by a large hospital that uses EMR, we started using the EPIC system last year. It makes CPSI look like it was designed by kindergartners. Of course the charting in an office is nothing like the charting for acute or LTC, so I can't make a fair comparsion there. I do know that EPIC is not crashing constantly, not freezing up, etc. Makes my day much smoother. When I lost my job 15 months ago, I thought that was the end. It actually was the beginning to a much better and brighter future!

Nurses and other healthcare members need to start filing charges against patients who assault us. It is total nonsense that healthcare workers even have to put up with this nonsense. If these patients (the ones who are A&O of course) would treat other service employees (sales clerks, hotel employees, airline employees, POLICE OFFICERS, etc) like this, they would be arrested and charged in a heartbeat. For some reason, healthcare workers are expected to put up with this nonsense because they are dealing with "sick people." Nonsense. Just because you are sick, doesn't give you free reign to attack and assault others. If a person pulled that crap on a plane, it would be a federal offense! It is high time for nurses and other healthcare workers to "fight" back agains this type of behavoir and put a stop to it.