NTexasRN

Yeah, karma has a way of being there when most needed alright. Excessive tardiness is (or was) a reportable offense to the state BON that has caused more than one nurse (I know personally) to have endangered their license. I was once accused of abuse of a patient. My state's BON dropped all charges at my hearing but little good that did because since I'd been terminated for the sake of just one person's 'substantiated' word I had my license tagged with a charge so I couldn't get a job and blew my carefully built credit history out of the water which ruined me financially. The nurse and facility found themselves in court fighting a lawsuit for sexual discrimination, defamation of character, loss of wages and mental stress among other things. Karma really is a good thing indeed but justice is even better. Everyone needs to be careful when they accuse anyone of anything.

....A study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) found that almost 40% of nurses who were on probation for professional misconduct in 2001 committed another act of misconduct between 2001 and 2005.... I can't stand studies like this; they seem to be just another cog in the wheel that keeps nurses from banding together in a cohesive group that might expand upon our rights as a group. If people actually knew just what they could be reported and disciplined for, they'd never become nurses in the first place.

All this means is that the nurse who took the order failed to put the correct diagnosis upon the MAR.

Go to a nursing program in a hospital, college or university instead. You'll be equiped with a better education for at least as much money as you'd spend at SB or CCC.

Nurses who accept the care of patients in hospice/palliative care are case managers.

There's a teaching hospital in Lubbock, Texas that will employ you while you work during school and after for such an agreement. I forget the name of the place but it shouldn't be too hard to find; Lubbock is a small town.

There is no job security in nursing, the pay and benefits are lacking, and its a rare job in which you can have holidays and weekends off.

I've been there, done that and would rather be unemployeed for all the good it did. Nursing homes typically load you up as much as they can because even if something terrible happens then it's all your fault. Don't do it. There are too many other jobs out there that a nurse can do than to be faced with such horrible situations as that. Even a part time job with an agency is better than no job because you've been reported to the board of nursing for not being able to do what's expected of you. I will never work in a LTC facility again in this lifetime.

By law you are required to report such behavior immediately or face charges that are equal to the offending person. There is no reason that a nurse should hold a newborn over a sink to wash anything and that such a person would be doing so in this case sounds fishy as anything I've ever heard. I'm very shocked that your instructor didn't make this clear. It is in fact your word against hers but you have a moral and ethical obligation to report it in any case.