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You MUST always protect your license. I am a HHA manager who is resigning tomorrow because my boss 1) forged my signature on a pts med list and 2) sees nothing wrong with changing the documentation on an OASIS once the Rn has submitted it for processing! IE: fixing it to upcode. I am going to be giving up about $20,000 per year but I refuse to be a party to such practices! Management is difficult enough without being able to trust or respect your boss. The company keeps her around, even though I direct reported this information to a senior level manager, because her branch makes profit each month. This has CMS fraud and lawsuit all over it!

The employee was terminated once the RN wrote a complaint and described the TV watching. She was terminated immediately for direct violation of policy of NO TV watching by any shift; especially nights. There were warnings, signed notices that all employees were advised NO TV allowed and yet it went on. Anyway, YES you and your spouse can be personally sued when you are acting on behalf of your company while performing your job duties. There are lawyers that will take any case and sue with the hope that the company will pay her rather than pay for defense lawyers. It is silly but true. Plus the gal suing has no money so we will never see a dime back from her if we went after her for damages! Total nonsense. I want to warn all the people where she currently works that she will sue you for anything! Here is a scenario: She has a headache and is sooooo miserable at work. You, offer her a tylenol from your purse. She later tells the boss that you were offering "pts drugs to her". No joke- she did this too! She said it made her mentally unsteady that the RN was offering her "prescription drugs". Lesson here is keep quiet, mind your own business, dont even joke about anything on the job and certainly dont offer anybody tylenol from your bag while at work!

Is the patient vegetating or what? I was a charge nurse at a LTACH. A patient was an IV drug user and the doc suspected that he may have cardiac vegetation and ordered a TEE. The nurse taking care of the patient was new to the US from India. He read the order and began to laugh. I asked, "what is funny about a TEE?" He replied, "I can tell the doctor that he has been vegetating all day- he wont get out of bed, won't talk on the phone, he won't do anything!". Yes, then I explained what a TEE was and the reason for the test. It was hilarious!!!!!!

I am currently being sued by an employee that I supervised (I am middle management). The head of HR fired this person for watching movies at work. I was the "witness" to the firing. The person has sued the company and MYSELF personally! I was shocked and amazed that I and my spouse could be personally named in the suit! I was acting for the company. Had nothing to do with me personally. In fact, I really did not even know the person at all! Luckily, my company has agreed to hire a lawyer to represent me and the HR director; in addition to the lawyer that represents the company. This is not quite the situation that the insurance covers but this is important information to know if you are in management. Document, document and then document some more! Oh yeah, dont have any assets in your own name.

First off, many lawyers will tell you NO. The insurance just makes you another pocket for the plaintiff to dig into.