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“I’m an RN. By law, you cannot perform a procedure that you have not been trained in and signed off on. While working in the ER, I was ordered to do a lavage (purge the stomach of toxins using a tube and fluids) of a drug overdose patient. It’s not a common procedure, and I had neither been trained to do it nor signed off to do it. When I notified the charge nurse and ER doctor about this issue, neither cared and ordered me to do it or be fired on the spot. I asked if at least another nurse who had done a lavage before could assist and instruct me, and was told no, because we were short-staffed.”<\/p>\n
“I reviewed a video of the procedure on my cellphone quickly and proceeded to complete it, terrified I was going to harm my patient.\u00a0Fortunately, it all went well, but afterward I submitted my resignation with two weeks’ notice and switched to working in hospice. I never went back to working in a hospital ER or ICU again. I warn people never to use that hospital for their care, that it isn’t safe to go there. Profit always seems to win over safe patient care.”<\/p>\n
\u2014Anonymous, 72, Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5. “I’m an RN. By law, you cannot perform a procedure that you have not been trained in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[401,402,403,11487,102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-bestofinternet-reddit","tag-evergreen","tag-flipped","tag-geekyfb","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}