I am an HIV LPN(NEW). My company hired a RN for role of clinic coordinator. This Rn was fired from a previous job 4-5 years ago, unknown reasons. We had the opportunity to interview her, myself and 3 PA's and her longest job in 5 years was 4 months. We said no, our director said yes.
She used to work at one of our affiliates clinics(where she was fired) and she asked me how can a pt. get transfered to us. We are a HIV clinic. I told her they just have to come over and change doctors. Needless to say the patient that she wanted to come over is also her live in boyfriend , who she met at the other clinic. She said she divorced her DOctor husband to be with him. She was his nurse and the pt is also a strong substance abuser. There are pictures of them kissing and on vacation on her web site. She has access to RX forms and other things. He is always here, hanging around. We sent pictures to our director, secretly, yesterday.
We don't know what will happen next.
QUESTION??????????Should the Illinois BON be informed. I looked up our nurses act and it states that one of the reasons for getting your license revoked, suspended is sexual contact with a patient.
Although I concur with you that the pictures were posted "for all the world" to see. Here, the unauthorized use would be that those pictures were taken out of context & used to discredit someone without that person being aware or consent given. Obviously, this RNs personal life interfered with her professionalism both in her dealings with coworkers as well as her patient(s) and hence it is being dealt with by the authorities & her licensing body. I also agree that you have an obligation to protect yourself & your own license and protect the facility you work for (product/med theft & confidentiality), but that issue should have been documented and reported to your director for her to take appropriate action. I am relieved that this person is being dealt with, but it was not your place to get involved with her personal life.
Because this is an internet BB we really can't prove that what a person says is accurate. Other posters don't know if I am a 50-year-old man with an accounting degree or if I am a medical student spying on what nurses have to say. But, the OP has been forthright and honest. To attack her and say she is lying seems uncalled for to me. Yes, it is possible that this whole story is made up but that seems unlikely. There could be any number of made up stories on this BB. I think that we need to offer helpful advise and to assume goodwill towards others and to assume that they are telling the truth.
In the end a faker will expose themselves anyway.
....and I felt she did.
I never question anyone's posts on this message board, until they start contradicting the story in later posts, on other threads, and then say things that can't possibly be true.
Let me shine some light on where I am coming from...
I live in an area that has a worse per-capita drug issue than most major cities. Some doctors won't even except you as a new patient without a reference from your old one...basically to certify that you are not a drug-seeker...that is how bad it is.
So hearing about cases of prescription fraud from workers in a facility hit the paper here on a daily basis. Whether it's the doctor over-prescribing or the patients swiping a few pages of their script pad when they get left in the examining room.
These cases very often take months...not weeks...months, to investigate.
Certainly, not 4 weeks. You can't hardly get a traffic ticket processed that quickly if you want to find it...and certainly not a full investigation for prescription fraud.
If the RN was an RN at the facility, then she didn't even have the need to steal prescription pads to start with. Any RN will know the protocol to "call in" a prescription to avoid any trace evidence of handwriting, etc. She wouldn't even have to state it's her that called it in, she'll probably give the name of a co-worker so it can be blamed on them...someone that worked directly with her HIV-positive boyfriend.
If I know this, and I'm not a drug seeker, you can betcha that a drug seeker has thought of it and more.
Especially if it's someone that ALLEDGEDLY got fired from a previous facility for drug use.
"Having a sexual relation with a client that she was servicing".
Sounds like a profession other than nursing!:yeah:
:hhmth: That's all we need... to be called "nurses who service their clients".... a bit off topic: I remember my nursing instructors getting us to call all of our patients, clients - that it puts them in a position of power and not inferior or subservient to the nurse. That never worked out - very rarely does ANYONE use this term in the hospital setting.
Sometimes compassion, understanding and empathy can carry us a long way. Love rules. Nosey coworkers with cameras make for a hostile workplace. Be kind!!!!!
Are you ever judgemental...I hope you never take care of me or my loved ones. Give it a rest, get a life!!!
I gave it a rest, how long ago did I post. As far as you telling me to get a life, I have one, and my life entails my place of employment and my clients as well as my license. My DON did feel it was my duty to come to her with any concerns that I may have had because they were justified. No need to be rude to me, I posted a question to receive feedback not to be judged because I did not judge anyone.
Sometimes compassion, understanding and empathy can carry us a long way. Love rules. Nosey coworkers with cameras make for a hostile workplace. Be kind!!!!!
Read the original post.Dated over a month ago. What co-workers had cameras? And what co-workers were nosey? She showed us the pictures that were posted on Facebook for the public to see. So you can have compassion for your coworker that wrote 2 Rx without a doctors order, you can have empathy for your co-worker that is doing something unethical and possibly jeopordizing your license. Once again my Director felt it in our duty to report anything we felt not right in the workplace since we are regulated by many organization including government agencies. So I guess it's ok to give an injection of Depo to a patient without a pregnacy test or a doctors order or to the patient who's menstrual is 1 week late? Oh, I guess that is not a nurse's business, and we should have understanding for the nurse who is not following rules.
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Although I concur with you that the pictures were posted "for all the world" to see. Here, the unauthorized use would be that those pictures were taken out of context & used to discredit someone without that person being aware or consent given. Obviously, this RNs personal life interfered with her professionalism both in her dealings with coworkers as well as her patient(s) and hence it is being dealt with by the authorities & her licensing body. I also agree that you have an obligation to protect yourself & your own license and protect the facility you work for (product/med theft & confidentiality), but that issue should have been documented and reported to your director for her to take appropriate action. I am relieved that this person is being dealt with, but it was not your place to get involved with her personal life.