This was, interesting

[jomar]

Document your stuff, Cat. Your boss is not on your side.

 

[SeaCat]

Document your stuff, Cat. Your boss is not on your side.

You think?Everything is well documented.I know where my bosses loyalties and fears lie.
Cat

 

[Corylea]

Your boss is a shithead. Can you get a job someplace else? The doctor who filed the good incident report might have some ideas and might be willing to give you a recommendation.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Well the Boss received the two incident reports today. She called me into her office and started chewing me out about stepping beyond my training/status. I shrugged and asked her if the patient had survived and she told me he had but that didn't matter. I asked her why this didn't matter and she changed the subject.

She brought up one of my patients that had fallen on Saturday. She claimed the patient now had a Pelvic Fracture and this was entirely my fault, because the patient had fallen while under my care. I had been expecting to hear about this as well and was at least partialy ready. (I hadn't expected the Pelvic Fracture part.)

I explained the situation, how the patient had goten up without notifying us of her need to get up and had then fallen. (Night Shift had forgotten to turn on her Bed Alarm.) I had found the patient on the floor and initiated the proper procedures. The Charge Nurse had ordered proper follow up which included CT Scans of both her head and pelvis.

I then asked how they had found the Pelvic Fracture as the CT of her Pelvis had come back negative. She argued with me about this until I grabbed the patients chart and showed her the report. There it was in black and white, no deformaty or signs of injury other than scarring due to an old Pelvic Fracture.

She then told me I was lucky, and sent me on my way, (She had misread the report.) with the warning not to step beyond my accepted skills set. This was about what I expected. Nothing will be said about the night shift forgetting to turn on the bed alarm and nothing will be said about the R.N. not catching the problem.

Ah well, I feel good about what I did and that's truly all that matters to me right now.

Cat

for saving that guy's life.

Say, have you ever read In pursuit of the proper sinner by Elizabeth George? Your story reminded me of it; do the right thing, get yelled at for breaking a minor rule that would have lead to a dead person if followed.

Screw that moron boss of yours. You're a hero in my eyes, Cat.

 

[Lee Chambers]

for saving that guy's life.

Say, have you ever read In pursuit of the proper sinner by Elizabeth George? Your story reminded me of it; do the right thing, get yelled at for breaking a minor rule that would have lead to a dead person if followed.

Screw that moron boss of yours. You're a hero in my eyes, Cat.

"Sometimes doing the right thing isn't doing the right thing." - Samuel L. Jackson, SWAT