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Long-Term Care Nurse Fired for Not Falsifying Documentation

Nurse.com

Subsequently, the RN was confronted by the administrator who said she had failed to do the assessment (although the RN says she found her assessment in the facility shredder box). She refused. The RN was also accused of not updating patient care plans, but she stated she had, in fact, done this and had taken screen shots of her updates.

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This is it! Don’t get scared now. – All students must read!

The Nurse Break

Please remember though to put these notes and anything else with the patient’s personal details into the shredder bin before you leave every shift, never carry anything containing patient information with you out of your clinical setting.

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