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1. Health Care Whistle Blowing: Caught between a rock and a hard place

   Whistleblower replied to Whistleblower's topic in General Nursing

   I WON!!! Out of court settlement of $75,000; furthermore, I did not have to sign confidentiality clause to receive this settlement. The Board of Nursing also dismissed all confidentiality charges against me after investigating my case and agreed wit...

2. Crossing Over to Psych Nursing...advice please

   Whistleblower replied to debRN0417's topic in Psychiatric

   And, if I had ever in my life met a schizoprenic who seem to be having a good time, I'd be happy to agree with him...Of course you have! What about the shizophenics who only hears the "good voices" saying nice thing to them and complimenting them. Yo...

3. Crossing Over to Psych Nursing...advice please

   Whistleblower replied to debRN0417's topic in Psychiatric

   I know exactly what your talking about when you speak of 'the golden age of psych nursing' it was then we treated our patients with dignity and respect and viewed our pataints as having a functional illness not organic or medical model as it is calle...

4. Crossing Over to Psych Nursing...advice please

   Whistleblower replied to debRN0417's topic in Psychiatric

   thought you might want to read a perspective from a mental patient. as a psychiatric nurse for over thirty years i find this piece disturbing and yet i see a lot of truth in what mr unzicker writes. warm regards tom www.antipsychiatry.org to be a me...

5. Has your Nursing License ever been in Jeopardy?

   Whistleblower replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   You nailed this one on its head! I have postings elsewhere but I can not resist answering the original survey question. My license is in jeopardy for carrying out my mandated responsibility to report in good faith to my state BON any and all illegal...

6. What's Your State Hospital Policy R/T BPD/O?

   Whistleblower replied to autumn-moon's topic in Psychiatric

   Well done! I especially agree that a sort of perverse pleasure-release of endorphins- take place during the cutting episodes. Surprisingly, when patients are able to label their sick behavior of cutting as an addiction a recovery process can usually ...

7. Falsely Accused of a HIPAA Violation

   Whistleblower replied to Mantibob's topic in HIPAA

   J&J don't know the half of it. In my case, "No More Tears" shampoo has helped me a lot. TLC to ALL ! Warm Regards, Tom

8. Falsely Accused of a HIPAA Violation

   Whistleblower replied to Mantibob's topic in HIPAA

   You make me feel good inside. Thank you soooooo much! Warm Regards, Tom

9. Falsely Accused of a HIPAA Violation

   Whistleblower replied to Mantibob's topic in HIPAA

   It is 8 o'clock in the morning. I'm just returning home from my new place of employment in New Hampshire. Thank you so much for your kind and loving words. Win or loose, I'll keep you posted. Warm regards, TOM

10. Falsely Accused of a HIPAA Violation

    Whistleblower replied to Mantibob's topic in HIPAA

    Hi Everyone, I have been a praticing nurse for 29 years.I was personally fired by my Massachussetts State Employer, The Department of Mental Health (DMH), for violating patients Confidentiality. To make a long story short, I admitted to sending a ser...

11. What's Your State Hospital Policy R/T BPD/O?

    Whistleblower replied to autumn-moon's topic in Psychiatric

    Besides limiting staff contact and providing a primary contact staff person for the Borderline; to avoid splitting; Benign Neglect is the Management of Choice for the general staff dealing with the Borderline Personality Disorder. Forget about contin...

12. A family needing help dealing with psychosis

    Whistleblower replied to norm's topic in Psychiatric

    will this help convince your family?regards, tom what is mental illness? mental illness is a term used for a group of disorders causing severe disturbances in thinking, feeling, and relating. they result insubstantially diminished capacity for copi...

13. Restraints for acute patients...

    Whistleblower replied to jojo's topic in Psychiatric

    Wow, I am so impressed by the Uk philosophy of care. Unfortunately mechanical external controlls such as restraints and seclusion and sometimes chemicals are still unnecessarily being frequently used to treat the mentally ill in psychiatric hospital ...

14. Restraint Debriefing Forms

    Whistleblower replied to PRNMEDS's topic in Psychiatric

    First off, if you were personally involved with placing a patient in restraints or seclusion you should not be the only one initially required to ask any direct questions to the patient with regards to this. It is little wonder that this debriefing p...

15. How Do You Accept Report on an Understaffed Unit???

    Whistleblower replied to oldernurse's topic in Safety

    If you can mentally and emotionally take it, keep doing what you are doing and above all else make sure the reprimands and disciplinary actions received by your supervisor is written specifically in answer to your complaints of unsafe staffing. One m...