On April 12th of this year, Christann Shyvin Gainey, L.P.N., was caring for a patient named H.R. McMaster, Sr. who was recovering from a stroke in a Pennsylvania facility.  During her shift and unwitnessed, Mr. McMaster fell and nurse Gainey was seen on surveillance video failing to perform neuro checks thereafter as required by the facility’s policy.  Mr. McMaster was found dead sitting in the lobby of the facility.  He suffered blunt trauma to the head from an unwitnessed fall and developed a … [Read more...]

As nurses, we are the front line of patient safety. These days, hospitals are run as corporations and tend to put profits ahead of patients.  We need to change this.  People come first! Because hospitals are now run like businesses, productivity experts and personnel who are not nurses, ask us to do so much more with less.  Administration is squeezing nurses to put their patients’ lives at risk and their licenses on the line. I am all for mandatory nurse patient ratios.  While I think it … [Read more...]