The0Walrus

Long story short there was a complaint against me sent to the NJ BON. They sent me a letter asking to voluntarily suspend my license while they investigate. My attorney and I refused because it was wrongful accusation. It's been a year and 4 months since I've heard anything and I've just been working. The question now is would NSO deny me a new policy? Thanks! I'm not on probation or suspension. Just curious. Thanks!

Mainly money but both. I put the rest of my money after bills into stocks and investments in case I get tired of it or if something happens with my license. I still feel bad for my patients and do my best. Most patients I've worked with have really liked me because I try to talk to all of the patients with respect. I work in the psych unit and many other patients get spoken down to. When the patients react negatively they get medicated or sometimes restrained. I try to just talk to them with respect and I come off a lot better and I don't have a high restraint history. Makes me proud. Still, I do it mostly for the money I have to admit it. I need to pay bills and I want to be able to support a certain lifestyle. I don't live with high debts or large bills and I'm pretty low standard with any bills. Don't let anybody ever make you feel bad though if you're doing it for the money. Nursing is stressful and you deserve the pay.

I need to buy a policy for nurse practitioner program. I had a complaint against me and then the BON were alerted. Right now I have not yet been contacted by the investigator. My license is not suspended or on probation. It's clear right now. I have to tell the underwriters but I'm wondering if anyone has any clue if they would decline coverage based on their experience. Thank you in advance!

My license is coming up for renewal in NY. I was terminated once for misconduct and forced to resign once for failure to pass orientation at a hospital. Both did not alert the BON. What I'm worried about it is they see this and will take it as self reporting and alert my state or will not renew my license. I'm planning to contact an attorney about this, but just looking if anyone had experience with this. 1. Does the BON see these things and report it themselves to my state BON 2. Do they decline renewal? 3. Do they approve the renewal? I have a clean criminal record.

Who do I pay the 40.00 to? What company?

Can I check been verified or Google to see if she has been arrested for anything?

Will it give me anything on my work history? My criminal record is clean. I'm worried this hospital can send every future employer this report made against me and I would look absolutely terrible even with a clean record. Even if I say this was absolutely unfounded. Would any future hospital get this in the future? This looks awful.

You're taking this out of context. Patients code. Sometimes they make it and sometimes they don't. The nurse is not always going to be able to save people. I know it's shocking to know that nurses and doctors can't save everyone. If there is negligence and that's why the patient died I understand it, but if not and the patient died due to something out of the medical team's power then yes all this because a patient died. No need to get pedantic.

I'm late, but that is absolutely nuts. I really hope she got herself an attorney or maybe 2... The BON just has way too much power. All this was because a patient died? That makes no sense to me. In a code you have several nurses working together, a doctor, pharmacologist, etc. I'm not judging but what would give them the right to single you out? Patients die many times. I'm late, but that is absolutely nuts. I really hope she got herself an attorney or maybe 2... The BON just has way too much power. All this was because a patient died? That makes no sense to me. In a code you have several nurses working together, a doctor, pharmacologist, etc. I'm not judging but what would give them the right to single you out? Patients die many times.

I'm debating with a friend on whether hospitals are allowed to record patients in their own rooms. Quiet rooms are obviously recorded, but their personal rooms? I'm curious.

Unfortunately I was terminated for a level 2 infraction. I am unavailable to get hired in that one hospital group. Now I'm worried because what the hell do I tell any future employers if the application asks "were you ever suspended or fired and why?" I also know the NJ BON is going to be contacting me and I'm going to need an attorney. Luckily I have NSO. I am able to dispute this and I will dispute this. Those patients were med seekers and I didn't do that.

It's my per diem job. They put me on administration suspension. I gotcha though. I understand.

I'm curious. What would this investigation entail? I have a friend who worked with me that night. She said nobody has spoken to her or anyone else that night about me and what happened so how does an investigation go like? If they go through cameras there's nothing there. If they speak to any of the employees that night, then they have nothing. The thing is my friend said nobody has contacted her or anyone during that night for anything regarding this issue.

Thanks! Yeah I was on the fence on this. I don't want them to have any reason to have any suspicion on me. I didn't do anything so there would be no reason to quit, but at the same time I don't want the hospital to just protect themselves and fire me and now I have to tell all my future employers what happened. This is absolutely embarrassing. Thank you, though. That made me feel better that you were able to come out of this and be employed.

I wouldn't do this because I wouldn't want to give any reason to be terminated for a HIPAA violation. You can get into so much trouble that the trouble isn't worth it. I also just want to get rid of this nightmare and looking into her charts would probably put my license into MORE jeopardy.

I agree entirely with you that because I'm a male nurse and due to the climate we live in with regards to men and sexual misconduct. This is unfortunate. The unit I work in has a rover doing rounds, and had an aide doing his rounds. I would many times also help the aides doing rounds. This night I did some rounds as well since I had a patient who kept complaining if he didn't have ativan he would seize so I wanted to make sure he wasn't going to seize. The doors are normally open during rounds also. I would have assumed if anything happened the aide or the rover would have grabbed me and filed a complaint. Nothing happened. They also have to write on their board they carry of anything that occurs during the shift. I did learn something though and hopefully this all gets cleared. The patient at one point at the end of the shift came u to me and the aide to say a thunderstorm woke her up and there were no thunderstorms. I'm assuming she may have been experiencing some kind of psychotic breakdown and combined something that happened in the past with her and someone else. Anyways, I'm sorry for your friend. Luckily here in NJ the attorney I spoke to said the nursing board wouldn't find out and suspend me unless there is probable cause and that I was terminated. If I'm terminated but there is no evidence of anything then the board would find out and I'd explain my side and then they would leave it alone. This is at my per diem job. I have another full time job which I go to and never had anything like this happen to me. I've never been accused of something like this so I'm so nervous about the outcome.

In my state (NJ) hospitals need to report these things to the police and DOH. So apparently it was reported. Police haven't made contact me with me in the past few weeks but this giving me a serious level of anxiety. I spoke to a nursing board attorney and he said since there are no witnesses to it it would be a question if there was any reason to believe the story. The patient was med seeking to all the nurses apparently throughout the entire shift. He said if the police contact me to tell them they can only speak to my attorney, which he said he would get me an attorney he knows. They placed my on administration suspension at this moment which I can appeal. He said since there are no witnesses also and there is no reason to believe their stories and I have no history of sexual misconduct in any situation in history then nothing may happen. I'm hoping that's the case. I've never been in this situation so I have no idea how to respond to this. I'm thinking of quitting the job because I would rather quit than be terminated for any reason. I feel like it would be better to quit than get terminated, but I'm apprehensive because since I know I didn't do this I feel like it can make me look guilty. I didn't do this, but I've never been in this situation so don't know how to react to this. I have to call back on Tuesday to give my account of the shift..

Thanks everyone. I spoke to a coworker about this who worked with me that night and she laughed it off saying basically the patient had been there before as a med seeker and the psych unit is filled with manipulative drug seekers. She told me "we have the aide doing rounds and the rover doing rounds. You also were at the nurse's station for most of the night." (Overnight). Then she said throughout the years other male coworkers had the same thing done to them because they didn't want to give meds to them d/t no orders for them and the patient would retaliate. She said HR just needs to follow up with the complaint and that's it. I'll still speaking to an attorney because I've never had this happen so to have been told this I was stunned. Thanks everyone.

I was working my shift. I got a call from HR and they told me they needed to talk to me in person. I went and the HR rep told me the patient in the psych unit I work in filed a complaint that I groped her breast. I never did that. I told HR that during my shift she kept talking to a few of the nurses about her issues and would start to cry. I was rounding at night and I saw her crying and walked into her room asked her if she needed anything to calm herself down. She starts telling me everything about her issues. I talked to her for a bit and then left. I received a call from HR stating they needed to talk to me in person. I told her my side as she wanted and asked if I needed to get an attorney or if I was going to be fired. She said she didn't know but that she would keep me posted. That is totally unfair I think now I'm worried what can come of this. The hospital doesn't have a union either. I'm freaking out because I'm thinking of the worst things that can happen. Would anybody get an attorney? Should I start looking for one? I'm freaking out and was hoping I'm not the only one who went through this. What are some of the most serious complaints you've had against you?

I'm mainly a psych nurse. I like picking up extra shifts at the hospital and will pick up shifts in any of the med surg or PCU units, but I would say the patients I fear most when I have to take them are patients in the psych unit that want to fight the nurse because of voices in their head. Even worse is when you medicate them and they apologize. The reason I get nervous about those patients is you have to be very careful when dealing with them and medicating them at the same time when the patient is going through a psychotic break and they're trying to fight you you're being careful as possible with the patient while trying not to get hurt yourself. It's a tough balance.

If you take out the N out of BSN you'll know how I feel about the BSN. I got my BSN with my RN. I didn't get it because I felt like it would help me at all. More so, now with my BSN I don't feel I'm any smarter or know more than an RN. The classes I took for my BSN had maybe 20% with patient care. Consider classes like statistics, sociology of the family, history of nursing, contemporary nursing -which for the most part was about learning about nursing theorists.. none of these classes matters when it comes to nursing care. I paid 18,000 for my BSN and got paid 0.80 cents an hour for the BSN. Financially, it doesn't make sense. When it comes to knowledge it still doesn't make sense. I don't feel it would have helped me all that much in the grand scheme of things. The only thing the BSN was good for really was it gave me the ability to go for my DNP. That's it. Even with my BSN, when I worked at the nursing home when I first came out of school the LPNs knew more than me so I wasn't even any better than the LPNs.

I'm curious. Most of the people I went to school with want to be ICU or ER nurses. They've never worked in the ICU or the ER but that's all they want to do. I told one girl who refused to work anywhere else other than ICU to go into a nursing home if she needs a job. She refused it and it took her a few months to finally go into a nursing home. She quit after a month because of her standards. It's the same thing when it comes to med surg and psych nursing. It feels like many newer nurses look down upon any other nurses other than ER and ICU. Another girl I know said she's wanted to work as a psych nurse forever, but when she was offered the ER position and psych position she took the ER position. I asked her why she chose ER over psych and she said she knows ER better. Now she complains about the work load from a trauma 2 hospital. I asked her why she didn't just transfer into psych since it's what she wanted and she didn't really give me a concrete answer just basically that she's stuck. Does it feel that way to anyone else? When it comes to ER/ICU it feels like they only respect those specialties. Thanks!

30/hr is stupid low from what I always read. In NJ many hospitals start you at 35-36. 30/hr is south Jersey or at a nursing home.

Honestly, I think nurses should be able to file a lawsuit against the BON when they do things so unfair. They shouldn't have so much power. This is why I'm planning to invest in real estate on the side. You can't just sit back and allow a group like the BON to just destroy someone's life so easily.

I posted my BSN diploma and the dummies in school who I thought were creepy. I haven't posted myself in PPE when COVID hit because I just didn't want to. I posted my pinning ceremony because I was proud that I became a nurse. This deals with personalities. Some people are totally happy with sharing what they're proud of and some people are more private. You can't knock people if they're proud of their career or proud of what they're doing. I haven't posted a picture of myself in scrubs or anything. When I became a nurse after maybe a month to me it was just a job. I'm proud of being a nurse. When people ask what I do for a living I tell them I'm a nurse. The thing is when it comes down to it I see it as strictly clock in, do your job, clock out. It's a job. I'm also 39 so maybe that's why I see it that way, but others want to show off their career or what they're proud of. It doesn't bother me. It's their personality.