Lela RN

Document no matter what. You should come in early and check your MARs so you will know what you have to give and check to make sure none of the meds due from the previous shift need to be given on your shift, due to new orders or if meds were unavailable from pharmacy. It's annoying to come behid a nurse and find meds not signed off, especially if the med was due at like 2200, and I come in at 2300, I can't assume it was given nor do I know if I need to give a late dose. I had to look up that nurses home # to find out if she gave it or not. Time that I could spend doing other things during my own shift. Sign off and double check before you leave. It's a matter of patient safety, this is most important no matter where you work.

The responses have been great, thanks. Just to answer a few of the questions that were asked. This is a married couple 10 years, ages 34 and 37 (old enough to know better). both have college degrees and good jobs. they are some what middle class with their own home and all. The relative at the house is the GRANDMOTHER (fathers mother), who I found has known about this since x-mas ( baby born 12/20) and she didn't bother saying anything to them. WHY ARE THEY ALL BEING SO STUPID AND SELFISH !!! It doesn't take a genius to know this is not good. They were always the "Party" couple, but you would think by now, with a new baby they would change. Well anyway, I did call CPS this weekend, we'll see what happens, they are going to be mad with me, but I'm prepared to deal with it, cause I haven't done anything to harm the baby, THEY DID.

A relative of mine just had a baby who is now only 2 weeks old. While over at their house I observed the Mom go out to the garage and smoke a "joint" and also drank a shot of tequila which was served by the father of the baby. I asked the Mom if she realized that both substances would get into her breast milk and to the baby when she feeds her. The Mom just sort of blew me off stating that her body will detoxify itself in two hours, -- which personally I know is not true cause the chemical THC found in marijuana - is stored in the body fat, the same place that the breast milk is made. I asked another relative who is staying at the house how long the Mom had been doing this, and she told me this has been going on for about a week. I'm scared for the baby's health and how she will be cared for with her mother being high off of pot. This is her 1st child too. She knows I'm a Nurse but she's not listening to me as far as this being bad for the baby. Would I be wrong if I called child protection ? What should I do ?