susiesmith21

An incident report was filed and the doctor called so that they could hold her blood pressure medication for the next day due to her receiving the atenenol instead of dilaudid. I called back my work today and asked the weekend supervisor to have the DON call me to discuss what was found last night. (I have yet to be asked any questions about this, was just told that it would be taken care of my night shift supervisor and by DON when she was called when it was discovered.) The DON was supposed to come in to work today to investigate, but turns out she didn't think it was important enough to come in. Needless to say, nobody has called me back about my concerns either. Monday morning when my shift ends I will wait until the Administrator comes and tell her exactly what happened. Just makes me so nervous that nobody has come in to follow up on this, and my night supervisor, who will be back tonight will still have access to the corrupt dilaudid card. I have only been a nurse for 3 years, and never thought I would be dealing with something like this. Makes me so uncomfortable...

I would like some advise on whether I should stay at my job. I have been suspicious of my direct supervisor (I work the night shift in a 250 bed nursing home/rehab facility) of stealing narcotics for a while. She has lost her license in two states for abusing narcotics/stealing them from the hospital, and this is the only place that she has worked since getting back her right to work in this state. A couple people have reported her where we work now, but she always passes the drug test. Whenever I work her behavior is irratic, and at times she appears "high". She always seems to be needing to borrow Dilaudid from my Wing for other wings, and even though some patients on my wing have dilaudid prn they never ask for it from me; but when she works they want it every 4 hours. Last night I went to get a patient 2mg Dilaudid and found that the narcotics card had been taped at the bottom, and the pills looked a little different. Turns out, after some investigation the pills were not dilaudid, they were Atenenol 25 mg! Somebody had replaced all of the pills; I went straight to my supervisor; even though she is the first one I suspected, and was the last one on that cart, and reported it. She told me that pharmacy must have made an error and sent the wrong pills. I demanded that our DON be called, whom she is friends with, and reported it to her as well. The package was put in the DON's office and I was told not to bring it up with anyone or worry about it. I am uncomfortable that my place of employment would cover something like this up; not sure what my next step should be.