Today, I was reviewing documents at work, only to find one of my coworkers has been signing off on paperwork, claiming he's been walking one of the residents daily. Aside from being a double leg amputee, the patient died two weeks ago. The state review board comes this week. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I had my quarterly review with my supervisor at the warehouse I work at. He told me I was doing great and we discussed my raise. After I left his office, his supervisor told me I was being fired for my attendance. The last time I missed work was to attend a funeral. Five months ago. FML
Today, as a CNA, I had to go through the belongings of a patient. His phone rang and I answered - it was his boss. As I explained, he cut me off and said to "drop the act" and "he better be there now or he's fired". He was pronounced dead-on-arrival. FML
Today, I accidentally let a huge one rip while tending to an older patient at the nursing home where I work. The patient passed away shortly thereafter. Coincidence? FML
Today, I was cleaning one of my elderly patient's teeth. After finishing and reminding her to floss, I realised she had died. Supposedly she was dead for a good 20 minutes. FML
Today, after years of me trying to get better, I finally have to admit that I'm severely disabled, as I saw it on my assistance paperwork. FML
Today, I had to cover for a coworker who didn't turn up for work. He's always late for work and I was pissed off about having to cover for him again, so I said to my colleagues, "He better be either in hospital or dead." Turns out he was dead. FML
Today, while working at my job at a nursing home, I slipped and fell. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just water. No, one of the residents had just had an "accident". FML
Today, I was volunteering at a nursing home calling bingo numbers. One woman stood up and started making noises, so I assumed she had won and started clapping. She then fell on the floor and died of a heart attack. I essentially applauded her death. FML
Today, I work as a RGN in an old victorian-style nursing home. Due to Covid-19, we've lost many residents, one passing just the night prior while I was with him. This morning, the TV turned on its own at nearly 4 a.m. in the lounge, and one of the HCAs reported stuff falling off in the corridor. FML
Today, working as a nurse, I saw a patient in for follow-up after a partial leg amputation. I checked her blood pressure and gave her the reading, which prompted her husband to ask what it meant. She replied, "I'm alive." Before I could stop myself, "And kicking" spilled out of my mouth. FML
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katty18724 25
That co worker needs to be fired..
Aspen_Grace33 27
I can't believe he got away with this for that long. Doesn't anyone else check up on these "caregivers"?
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Comments (54)
katty18724 25
That co worker needs to be fired..
JMichael 26
I agree. That's just pure stupidity on his part.
chosha_fml 27
And before the review so they can be seen to have acted when they found a problem.
tanekdrachonae 19
Agreed, my wife works in a memory care unit. We both think it is absolutely abhorrent how our elderly are treated. There is an overabundance of people in the medical field that don't truly care about the people they're taking care of.
ScottVining 21
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Sounds plausible
darwinism 30
How? Do you use the movie Ghostbusters as a reference? Or is Flatliners your movie of choice?
MidnaLink 35
Not if the dumbass has still been sugning the paperwork in these two weeks.
cheshireau 26
I'm pretty sure #2 was being sarcastic
sillygoosezeus 4
Apparently no one on FML has ever heard of sarcasm....
Aspen_Grace33 27
I can't believe he got away with this for that long. Doesn't anyone else check up on these "caregivers"?
Aquaman911 18
Walking? Like a dog?! What does he have to hide considering he lied about the death...
thevelociraptor 31
Really!? The whole point was that he was never walking the patient because a) he had no legs, and b) he died! Also he didn't lie about the fact that the patient died. He lied by saying he was walking the patient.
kyu_Q 19
aquaman, I think you need to read the post again
thefrikinbat 8
Umm.. did mommy get you a special caregiver, too?
Adam5858 17
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Does he get paid by the persons familly or the business?
RogueWarrior869 23
It wouldn't make sense for him to be paid by the family since they would know the man in question cannot walk (unless he meant walking him around in a wheelchair) and had passed on. I think it's safe to say the place he works for pays him.
ImAFaker 29
Hopefully he gets fired and nothing happens to you. After all, it wasn't you who lied.
corn_flake 19
That's his problem. There is no way you should get punished for it unless you were in charge of him.
SMHsohard 22
And you obviously have no idea what a State review entails. Many times the State is doing a review because someone called the complaint hotline. They go through the complaint chart and a certain percentage of the other patient records, and any discrepancies have to be accounted for. If OP is a Manager or Admin, ultimately it IS his/her responsibility. Bad things get you tags (meaning things that have to be corrected). Enough tags mean a second review, usually in about 6 months, to see if you're following the action plan for correction. Blowing off the action plan or doing a half-assed job can get you closed down. The only bright spot is that they don't check that many discharged charts, so OP may still have dodged a bullet.
titibug823 11
Is there any way you can report him?
yeahthatsmeee 10
I really hope you don't get punished for this OP it's all on him.
cryssycakesx3 23
I could be wrong, but, I feel like OP should have been checking on this coworker more often, or at the very least, sooner. that is, of course, if that's his job.
EpicSquishii 21
I have a co-worker like that at the day program for special needs adults that I work for. She'll start writing and finishing Dailies for clients at noon. She'll embellish and lie, and always finish with "Great Day, No Incidents!" Usually by the end of the day when she leaves, I'll stay behind and have to white that out and write "client bit staff hard enough to break skin" or "client threw tantrum and broke a window." Because she's a lazy old bitch who doesn't care about them.
AloysiusWeasley 15
Do not use white-out. Use a single strikethrough, and write addn: *entry here* and initial. Feel free to tell someone higher up the chain too - she will get canned, that's a pretty serious violation.
SMHsohard 22
#12: White Out will get you many tags during an audit. It's called tampering with a legal document, and lawyers just LOVE to see shit like that. Pretty much makes their case a slam-dunk. You also can't correct someone else's notes for them.
EpicSquishii 21
These notes are for parents. There are separate forms for the state (Incident Reports and detailed progress reports) that this woman doesn't have access to since she's only working there one day a week. She isn't actually doing anything to jeopordize our organization, she's just an insufferable **** who needs to not work there anymore. I always tell the parents "after this was written, (insert incident here) happened and I went and corrected it." And no one has had an issue so far. I'm kind of just going along to get along, since she's director at the program we have in another city and has pull at my organization. Everyone hates her but she isn't going anywhere soon.