It is a nurse’s duty to ensure patients are getting the proper treatment they need in a timely manner. They should also follow the physician’s order and no order should be missed. A missed order could harm a patient. Some RNs tend to miss orders and result in unnecessary harm to a patient. If this happens, an RN should be prepared in case he or she will be summoned by the Texas Board of Nursing for such conduct. An RN can hire a nurse attorney for this matter.
At the time of the initial incident, an LVN was employed as a Licensed Vocational Nurse at a hospital in San Angelo, Texas, and had been in that position for three (3) years and ten (10) months.
The incident happened on or about July 16, 2018, while employed as a Licensed Vocational, the LVN failed to send the patient, a patient who had fallen and she assessed to be lethargic and drowsy with dilated pupils, to the emergency room as ordered by the physician and failed to transcribe the physician’s verbal order to send the patient to the emergency room. Instead, she left the facility to take her children home.
Subsequently, the patient fell again the next morning and was transferred to the Emergency Department, where she was diagnosed with a subarachnoid bleed. The RN’s conduct was likely to injure the patient from delay in necessary medical treatment for complications from a fall and may have contributed to a patient suffering a subarachnoid bleed.
And on or about July 16, 2018, the LVN failed to notify her supervisor, that the patient had fallen, and failed to ensure the patient was appropriately monitored for complications, including vital signs and neurological checks. Instead, the LVN documented a nursing note that the patient had fallen, had lethargy and dilated pupils after the fall and that she was waiting to hear back from the physician. The LVN’s conduct was likely to injure the patient from delay in necessary medical treatment for complications from a fall and may have contributed to a patient suffering a subarachnoid bleed.
On or about July 16, 2018, the LVN failed to give and/or document a complete and accurate hand-off report for the patient, including the report of the patient fall and subsequent neurological changes, before the LVN left the facility. Subsequently, the patient fell again at 07:45 AM the next morning and was transferred to the Emergency Department, where she was diagnosed with a subarachnoid bleed. The LVN’s conduct resulted in an incomplete medical record and was likely to injure the patient in that subsequent caregivers would rely on her documentation in order to provide further patient care.
Unfortunately, the Texas Board of Nursing found her guilty regarding the incidents above. Her nursing license was subjected to disciplinary action. That may result badly the reason that she did not hire a skilled Texas nurse attorney to fully defend her case which led to this decision by the Texas Board of Nursing.
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