St. Rose Nurses guilty of drug theft!
The problems I reported on Saturday were only the tip of the iceberg, however.
In an earlier post, I reported in-depth incidents of outright negligence, incompetence, and lack of quality of care which has been tarnishing the image of the once-presitigious Medical Faciility.
Nurses violate Patient Rights @ Cedars Sinai
Post: 05/25/2010
http://ijulian.blogspot.com/2010/05/cedars-sinaiviolates-patient-rights.html
Subsequently, I was not surprised to pick up the LA Times this morning and spy an investigative report on Nurses in the State of California.
According to the reporters at the daily, the inappropriate conduct of Nurses is widespread, and not restricted to "quality" of care.
For example, Nurses have been sanctioned for neglect, sexual abuse, drug use and criminality (theft of patient property, for one).
In my own experience as a patient, I have found the foregoing to be true.
Over the weekend at Cedar's Sinai, for instance, one middle-aged Nurse kept trying to lift my gown to stare at my genitals.
At a hospital in Las Vegas (St. Rosa) the doctor prescribed morphine for my pain.
When it wasn't forthcoming, I asked to speak with the "charge" Nurse.
A middle-age Filipino Nurse swore up-and-down that she gave me the injection.
A total falsehood.
I surmise she either squirreled the addictive narcotic way for her own use or to sell on the black market.
In an article I penned on a Las Vegas Medical Facility on Charleston Street - I reported that I witnessed shocking abuse of a patient in the Emergency Department.
When an orderly stepped into a cubicle and noticed that the patient (with kidney and liver problems) had urinated on themsevles (because no Nurse or orderly was available to assist at their moment of need) the insensitive unprofessional shouted at the patient.
"Did you piss all over yourself", with a tone of disgust in his voice.
The appropriate way to treat a patient?
At another Vegas hospital, a patient sat in Emergency for about 12 hours before being installed in their hospital room. During that time span, the patients medical records - and their insurance information - went "missing".
For the next two days, a doctor was unable to locate the files.
Was this a classic example of neglect or an attempt at Identity Theft?
Post: 10/15/09
http://ijulian.blogspot.com/2009/10/barack-obama-insurance-reform-racist.html
In an earlier Times investigation, journalists learned that hundreds of Nurses have een sanctioned elsewhere (other states) but continue to work in the Golden State.
According to Paul Riches - a director at the Dept. of Consumer Affairs - investigation of new disciplinary cases filed in recent months are going to be a difficult challenge to meet.
A database maintained by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing has revealed that many Nurses were disciplined for the same offenses but continue to defiantly maintain watch over unsuspecting patients (who are obvioously at risk).
State Officials note for the record that a complaint must be filed in California against the Nurse in question before an investigation may begin with the aim of ousting the unqualified and/or disreputable practioner from the profession.
Patients are urged to report all incidents of Nurse abuse and/or negligence to State Officials with the ultimate aim of preventing innocent victims from being the target of these uscrupulous unqualifed hospital personnel.
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