Comments on: Post Online, Get Investigated By State Medical Board

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:48:58 +0000

“The greatest stressor is having a job with absolute responsibility with no power. Such is life for nurses.”
It adversely affects patient care and it shouldn’t be that way.

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:47:16 +0000

I don’t condone falsifying credentials or disregarding doctors’ orders – in most cases. For example, forgetting to change credentials when a situation changes or not following an order that may harm the patient are both understandable.
That being said, I don’t think anyone would be able to come out of an in-depth investigation of several years of their professional career smelling like roses.
I’ve actually considered creating a fund to do an in-depth investigation on the director of the Arizona Nursing Board to prove the point.
Not going there … yet.

By: JustADoc

JustADoc — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:08:57 +0000

Thought you might be interested in this case where an OBGYN got in some trouble for posting on her facebook about an anonymous patient:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/ob-gyn-complains-patient-tardiness-215821553.html

By: Pattie, RN

Pattie, RN — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:24:16 +0000

I, for one, was happy to see so many docs support Ms. Trujillo in the beginning, when I too thought she was being cornered and threatened. The more that she and others posted in public, the more I began to see that there must be at least one other side to this story.

When a nurse job-hops in lieu of remediation, removes Foley’s and orders cheeseburgers for cardiac patients, ignores urgent pt. needs (like breathing!)brings a minor child into a home health pt’s residence, mis-represents her credentials, and orders a “middle-of-the-night” hospice consult for a pt. admitted for a hip fx….and not even on the UNOS list…..we have an unstable nurse. She states she “lost her edge” due to a “medical problem”…..but still wanted to be a nursing Army of one, saving her patients from the big, bad doctors and her less-valuable peers. These are hallmarks of poor judgement, if not a mental issue of some type.

By: kris

kris — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:41:40 +0000

If you want to get rid of what you consider a “bad apple” all you have to do is carefully word your complaint. It doesn’t excuse the fact that she entered a “nursing order” allowed under the Cerner system for the patient to talk to a case manger about other options. That the surgeon threw a hissy and demanded her termination. The nurse was not the surgeon’s employee. She was a hospital employee. This could have been handled internally. She probably shot herself in the foot with the internet stuff. But then again I never read anything negative about the blogger Flea who live blogged about his malpractice trial. Same difference. The bottom line is Banner Del Webb has a bad rep from the nurses who have worked there. Also I hope that as a nurse my hospital would not summarily dismiss me because a doc was unhappy. After working for 2 for profit organizations, I have found myself in the position of being “not a team player”. It sucks for nurses that they can’t speak out without fear of reprisal. The greatest stressor is having a job with absolute responsibility with no power. Such is life for nurses.

By: EM_Resident

EM_Resident — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:35:57 +0000

A lot of the older doctors hopped on the “support Amanda Trujillo” bandwagon before hearing both sides of the story. The allegations against her are pretty substantial (including multiple episodes of falsifying her credentials and disregarding doctor’s orders), check the link at the end of the first paragraph: http://notratched.net/nnr/2012/03/27/documentation-from-the-az-bon-on-amanda-trujillo

By: PJ

PJ — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:24:22 +0000

Trujillo’s case just got closed (with penalties) in December. Check out www-dot-azbn-dot-gov.

By: DocInKY

DocInKY — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:55:23 +0000

Also note: If licensed in more than one state, a cause of action by one Board becomes a cause of action by each and every board of each and every license you hold. Each one with different rules/procedures/punishments etc. for the “bootstrap” action… I would not hold any extra licenses ‘just in case’ – it just adds more boards to ‘investigate’ you once the ball starts rolling…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:33:54 +0000

Can’t get some state Medical Boards to pull a license of even physicians with multiple judgments, but they’re on top of those social media accounts!