Will I lose my license?

[leraye6]

Worked at a job for to weeks. I wasn't train properly on anything. I went to my supervisors and asked for help. They weren't willing to help so I put my notice in. The DON asked me not to come back. I hadn't learned their computer charting system and didn't chart on anyone which I told the DON. Can I lose my license behind this is I wasn't trained on anything. I really was just a medication aide with a license.

[leraye6]

Thank you..

[leraye6]

Thanks you so much...

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

The Texas BON has a provision called "Safe Harbor." Basically, it's intended to protect nurses when they believe they are assigned patients that they may be unable to care for safely. Examples may be if someone calls in sick and they tell you that you are going to have to be the primary nurse for 12 high acuity patients.

I don't know of a nurse who has kept his/her job for very long after invoking Safe Harbor. Managers and administration figureheads generally dislike when nurses invoke it due to the onerous peer review process that must follow.

[medicalforonevoice]

Rbeck, I too am from Indiana and spent 4 years monitoring and observing the Nursing Board. There are good things that do happen, but even as a Board member stated, there are too many complaints filed where it needed to be dealt with at the facility/hospital, etc., setting. Do you realize, it took a LAW, in the State of Indiana, to make a committee, "Job Creation Committee", to look at licensed and certified professions? They also, are to look at Rules, Regulations, Practice Acts, Boards, Professional Licensing Agency, to hopefully ease allot of the tension that has been happening in the past and present. The Indiana Senate governs Nursing in this state. As I stated, there are good things happening; but, some of the issues that I have observed need some tweaking. A cream on a patients butt, turns into a case viewed by the AG's office. Really....there goes that Nurses career and reputation. You get your name posted on a list, for all the world to see. Speculation? Let's deal with real issues here. Anyone can file a complaint, if you do not think that is not on a Nurses mind....Does the punishment fit the crime? Moral? In the eyes of the beholder. By the time, sometimes after years and thousands spent on attorneys, a Nurse...who forgot to put cream on a butt, but was dealing with an emergency situation, may get to take hours of CEU's to rectify the situation. But, guess what...already in black and white, for someone to Judge. So, leave the petty issues at home, let's look at what is actually happening. Nurses have to be proactive in their profession! We spent too much time, money, energy, selflessness...to let minor infractions or bias "say so's", dictate who we are. So, we have to start somewhere. Solution? With us! We live it, breath it, give ourselves to our patients/clients, we are the best ones to let the Law Makers know. A respected profession, let's keep it that way!