In 2020, Donna Monticone worked for Yale Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic in Orange, Connecticut where she was responsible for ordering and stocking narcotics. She started to use and steal Fentanyl. Initially she would remove the drug from the secured file, inject herself, and then add saline to compensate for the taken volume of Fentanyl. Eventually, she began taking vials to her home where she not only injected herself with the drug but would, as before, replace the taken … [Read more...]
Nursing Boards’ Dirty Little Secrets
I would think with the pandemic and with nurses being the number 1 most trusted profession (and in dire need) that nursing boards would have compassion toward nurses who are asked to work harder with more acute patients and with less staff. These conditions make a recipe for a disciplinary matter before any board. Interestingly, patients’ right to sue for malpractice is curtailed during the pandemic because of the crisis and decreased staff yet nurses can still be reported to the Board with … [Read more...]
Recipe For Disaster: More Patients Per Nurse
California is the only state that has mandatory minimum staffing. However, when the pandemic hit and ICUs were filled to capacity, the state’s Department of Public Health allowed hospitals to apply for a temporary expedited waiver which would allow each nurse to care for more patients. The law had allowed nurses to take only 1 or 2 patients in ICU during the pandemic but now with the introduction of the waiver, nurses must take even more extremely ill patients into their care. This further … [Read more...]
Top Ten Blog Posts of 2020
As I always provide at the start of each year, here are the TOP TEN BLOGS of the previous year. For 2020, we start with number 10 and go up the scale to the top blog of the year. In at number 10, Can You Train a Nurse in 2 Days to Work in ICU? The Governor of California said he could train a nurse in 2 days to work in an ICU. This is completely unrealistic. I challenge all of you to invite your state representation to work with you. They have no clue how difficult your job is. Coming … [Read more...]
Can You Train A Nurse In 2 Days To Work In ICU?
California Governor Gavin Newsom proposes that nurses be trained in ICU care in just 48 hours. Maybe they can be trained in 2 days but certainly not sufficiently enough to do things safely or within the standard of care. A nurse with only 48 hours of ICU training may end up being more of a danger to a COVID 19 patient than the virus itself. But what difference does that make when hospitals cannot be sued for malpractice involving COVID related cases? I would like to be standing … [Read more...]
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