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If you work at a nursing home and aren't doing the ordered dressing changes and this results in significant harm to those patients, what do you think should happen to you?2 Upstate nurses arrested, charged for neglect, investigators say
Two Upstate nurses have been charged with neglecting to care for the wounds of two residents of a skilled nursing facility, officials said.
Wasn't sure where to post this. I guess now people are going to be criminally charged and held at gun point to provide healthcare
Did this result in significant harm? Should this be a criminal matter? Shouldn't the board of nursing/medicine/accrediting agency be the one to investigate? Should they charge the facility admin for understaffing if that was the underlying issue? Shouldn't they shut down the facility?
"Investigators said both women intentionally failed to change the victims’ wound dressings, causing their wounds to increase in size, resulting in both victims suffering unnecessary harm and risk to their physical health.
Where do you get the "held at gunpoint" from?2 Upstate nurses arrested, charged for neglect, investigators say
Two Upstate nurses have been charged with neglecting to care for the wounds of two residents of a skilled nursing facility, officials said.
Wasn't sure where to post this. I guess now people are going to be criminally charged and held at gun point to provide healthcare
That and the fact that these were dependent people. It's not criminal for me to not feed my adult neighbor. It is criminal for me to not feed my kids.
But these people aren’t their kids if these patients were morbidly obese and it was difficult to change the wounds I would just quit since it’s likely these nurses did other things like giving meds
I'm from South Carolina, and in fact this happened in my hometown. We are not an arrest happy state for stuff like this. I can almost guarantee there is more to the story than the four paragraph news story relates.
I intentionally don’t look at wounds allllll the time , guess I should get my affairs in order
How do you hide a hundred dollar bill from an IM doc? Put it under a dressing.
We think an individualistic culture where kids don't wanna take care of their adult parents is gonna be solved by creating harsher laws. I bet the alleged victim(s) in the case have a relative in the state attorney's office
ER doc: tape it to the patient they got sign out on
When I heard this joke for emergency docs it was “put it in the past medical history.”
Put in in a discharge summary.
? I'm generally thrilled when the patient has one of these on file. It's a beautifully condensed recent medical history. Assuming they were actually discharged from a medical and not surgical service anyway. Seriously, I feel like dc summaries are a place where IM docs really shine.
General surgery: put it in the chart.
In my system it seems to be “put it in the phone call note my colleague wrote explaining why they called and told patient to go to the ER”
I avoid them!
I thought about it when the topic came up .. I think we actually have such varied interests and side gigs and practice environments that the joke fails for EPs.
I agree, and it's a joke, so I probably shouldn't explain it, but here goes anyway...
See I would've said you put it on the table of a committee.
I was right there with you, until one of my colleagues accepted a transfer (!!!!) for FB removal, then left before the patient arrived. . I’ve worked at the other place, so I know the issue is not equipment, pelvic cart, etc … 🙄
Wait another ED doc transferred someone for a stuck tampon or something?
Yes. It was a different item but yes.
What pray tell, was the indication for transfer?
“Inadequate staffing for sedation” (patient developmentally delayed) so the plan was for us to hold or admit for Gyn to see 🙄
Idk ask the corporate groups. They hide lots of hundred dollar bills from me.
