I represent myself as a retired registered nurse of better than 3 decades active in civilian nursing and about eight years as a hospitalcorpsman in the USN for the U.S.M.C. My history of the past is only relevant for this site specifics to false documentation by nursing regulatory agencies which are subsequently recognized as individual state agencies. The identifying of AZBN, Maine and Massachusetts nursing boards are a basically all the same boards whose main function is to monitor nurses by any means possible. This is successful simply by ignoring state laws which all state nursing boards do. The ajoining commission is called the Nation Council which is all boards in the U.S. except a few, Calif being one of them. Many NCSBN files are hidden from public view.
The documentation available for one nurse whose nursing career suffered only through malfeasance of a minor nature totals about 1,500 files of false documents. The likelihood of concern for nurses’s record and monitoring being accurate functions without patient safety adherent promises. Many pts. suffer, some are aware of real failures while others have needed outcomes because insurance is available. The vagueness means treatments not always needed but promoted for revenue.
The loss of health care staff has been monumental for the U.S. health system with spiraling costs and clinical failures making the system rated as one of the least desirable whose international ratings are equal to Haiti which is very high risk for many, as it is in many parts of the U.S. From always having high ratings and dependable care in the 1990s to gross stats by 2000. If any political hands avoided this issue it is not known. The Clinton’s work in investigations and creating avenues of potential repairs was dwarfed and ignored by big corporations whose take over of many systems blunted costs of human progressions to improve quality. Not long after Hillary Clinton got booed out of the system,and ignored, the fall began in favor of profits. Her attempts had traction that revealed the flow of money not to be touched by either professional dedication or honesty in the clinical world of nursing. The nurses who came forward with honesty for failures were had death sentences imposed and carried out by the national council; the lead on this trail is 20/20 confirmed by many friends in nursing.
The volume of personal and professional and patient disasters stand alone by inaccuracies for the masses. The inside and astute personnel structured suffered often to not be able to be a spoke person for patient care, at the least end of many trained workers whose careers have potter’s field picture frames in memory. Incompetent physicians with bad histories often roam about places in rural Arizona breaking standard after standard whose litigation, is simply another way to make money that is vast arrays of public losses. The duality of man whose only driving ambition is to promote profit for the system they own. The hope the inventories of tragedies might show the duality of man has a good flip side? There are also many good providers, but as most know this is the largest cashier in the world. It really is. How does forward improvement occur in the mist of failure?
The public must find a way into the files with tagged exposures noted of failures. The failures created define public fear demonstrated by silence. Patients are scared many times over. Many refrain from health care totally.
ONE CASE; Woman in retirement has big “white flashes ” in one eye causing her to take a big fall on concrete stairs. She survives and goes to Henderson hospital near Las Vegas for treatment. Her 18hr E.R. bill is 75,000 w/no diagnosis, that 4 physicians had charged to whom she not saw a one. Her condition reoccured causing her to randomly pick a physician, of any special attention, in downtown Las Vegas. The woman had a real physician look in her eye , within the hour of walking into the office visit and diagnosed her w/eye cancer and scheduled her for surgery the next day. The physician performed dx & surgery scheduling in ten mins.This is 3mos. after her Henderson Hospital visit and the cancer naturally advanced and life’s dwindles is where the money is.
The Henderson Hospital actually has the balls to post on their web page Not Responsible For Physician’s Treatment at this facility’s Henderson Hospital. Carry a rabbit’s foot in your pocket as you maybe afflicted by death of chance; the patient in this case was a registered nurse for many years. She lost 4mos of early diagnosed cancer that caused her to possibly lose her eye. The disclaimer declared the hospital not responsible? Lawyers would not touch it.
The true time for nurses to comprehend their existence of surviving for clinical trails is sooo much in the mist of rolling the dice or not. Great advice? Should the nurse be an advocate? Actually that is an easy question to answer. If you want to make 300,000/yr as a bedside nurse you can not be a patient advocate. If retirement looms you can promote patient care then as your chances of not being fired or being fired is irrelevant. People tell me nurses can not make 300,000 are year at the bedside. Yes they can and do. In the past five years many bedside nurses have made a million dollars. These million dollar nurses have some common traits. They’re not greenhorns, they are not patient friendly, work 48hrs/wk. mostly nights in ICUs, substance use disorder in their history, never politically wrong in any situation, never admits wrong and can be very difficult to work with. Is always the smartest person in the room. They are more but I can not say…but if you want to make millions of dollars in nursing now is the time….but this is who you have to be. You can get lucky and survive for decades, however, the modern day nurse seldom works beyond ten years of active duty and many have or have had a substance use issues. There is no stats defining those that make it through probations. Many nurses have left the field in the COVID era due to violence and staff safety issues. Board issues are the leaders of nurse elimination as its good for their businesses.
The incredible volume of false/fraudulent licensing stemming from Florida’s coligate scams has filtered throughout the country and has reached into the 1000s. Coligate failures in Az directly related to poor state exams and licensing doesn’t seem possible; but it is the regulations government that defines corruption and incompetence. You can still do the best you can and have to walk away from the nightmares now in nursing. It was soo much better when I started in the 1980. So sorry Stay strong.
Peary Brown retired R.N.
In closing remember recent poll… 25% of nurses working today plan on leaving nursing in 4 yrs.
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