paigeRN1962

Regarding making copies of the proof of use records.....as a health oversight agency, HIPPA Law 104-191 allows these records to be copied without prior patient authorization when used for audits and investigation when making a legitimate complaint ag...

Yesterday I was fired. Not for anything I did or did not do or for incompetance but simply because according to the office mgr. "you just don't fit in." :angryfire Drugs weren't signed out. Proof of us records don't exist. Wastage not witnessed. I st...

I start a new job next week. However it is a violation of the nurse practice act to not report the unsafe practice of a nurse providing patient care. I feel it is the only way to protect myself from being targeted later. If I wait until this place ge...

Yes I was a new employee on probation and I realize they don't need any reason at all however it is clear to me that I was fired for knowing too much.

I work for a plastic surgeon where we do office-based surgery and see this practice done everyday. I am not sure what, if any laws have been violated due to the lack of regulation of doctor's offices in general. Nor am I sure what MA's are able to do...

First a few background facts: I just finished my second week working in a private physician's office as a staff nurse. It is an office based surgery center and has recently added another RN and surgeon. I am still in orientation however no mention wa...

I absolutely agree that competancy and proficiency is something you can't put a price on nor do RN's have a corner on the market. But there are policies and laws we must as RN's or LPN's follow. I once worked at a hospital who demoted all the nurse m...

I've just started working in an office-based plastic surgery center which is certified by the AAAHC. Before I started working there, all the narcotic records were co-signed by the physician in time for the inspectors however none of the discrepanies ...

Absolutely, there are red flags all the way around and although I want to quit, I am a single mother with 3 mouths to feed and cannot leave without finding a new job first. It took me almost 3 months to get this job due to blacklisting by a former nu...

I have purposely not listed my real place of residence and changed certain identifying details to protect me and the employer's privacy...to decrease chance of liability and retaliation against me. I do not wish to embarrass my employer, or jeopardiz...

>THEY'LL be in breach of it, not you. Of course, I'm not sure how it would >work without the supervisor's (authorized) signature, but that's a question >for the lawyer. I've thought of doing this however there is a clause stating that any am...

I agree that the rationale behind this contract has to do with "nothing personal, it's just business." But, yes, the unprofessional way this was handled is concerning. This employer doesn't offer his employees any disability or life insurance and bec...

Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions. It appears that the doctor whom I work for cut and pasted this on his computer. I believe this is a contract he is trying to make as a "one size fits all" to cover any and all issues, potential or real...

I am in the same situation..just started a new job....scary.....physician-trained "medical assistants" who scrub and circulate in a plastic surgery ambulatory surgical center. I am orienting and seeing things I question but am not familiar with what ...

I am an OR circulator with over 18 yrs exp. working in a new ASC since the doors opened 6 weeks ago. I am one of 2 circ. and spread so thin as to affect patient safety IMO. Yesterday I was called on the carpet and formally written up for not completi...

I write what I want to remember in my own notebook with dates and details that does not specify a patient's identity as I have heard that these can be deposed as evidence if there is a lawsuit. When I feel I have enough to show a pattern of abuse eit...

I don't know where else to put this but it does involve cameras and privacy. We have had a huge influx of visitors bringing camera phones into our hospital and specifically into our surgery holding area while they wait with their loved one to go to t...

AMEN to that! I am sick to death of my NM harping on us about turn-over time.......then griping that I am getting over-time because my computer charting wasn't completed before the end of my shift and says, "Are you still here?" :angryfire (in spite ...

I have worked in the OR for over 20 years, first as a scrub and the past 14 years as an RN circulator. The perception among some is that we are glorified gophers whose main job is to run after things the surgical team needs. I heard this comment made...