I hope her days of being licensed to do anything in the medical profession are over.
I hope her days as a member of non-incarcerated society are over.
Oh, just kill the bitch and get it over with.
But it’s worth noting that “working under the supervision” doesn’t mean that she’s (or he’s - most nurse anesthetists are men) actually working with an anesthesiologist looking over her shoulder. It usually means that if any problems come up, she can call him, or he might meet with her once a week or once a month to discuss her caseload, ask her if there are any problems, etc. Or it might mean that his name is on her insurance billing statements and she hasn’t spoken to him since 2009. There is a wide variety of what “working under the supervision” means in the real world.
(And I profoundly apologize for the gender bias and patriarchal assumptions in the previous paragraph, but the nurse anesthetist in the OP is female, and making the anesthesiologist male in my writing made for easier to decode prose. Certainly there are male nurse anesthetists working under the supervision of female anesthesiologists, so don’t go trying to take my WymmynPower card away, okay? 
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I wonder if the 300mcg of waste (which is a TON, holy crap) were verified. I suspect not just because I don’t see 50mcg of Fentanyl having all that profound an effect on somebody with her history. I wouldn’t think it would anyway.
What a piece of shit. I don’t agree with employment drug screening in general but it just makes sense in nursing, an area which (where I’m at anyway) generally does NOT participate in drug testing.
The equivalent of what people are refering to in this thread doesn’t exist in France. There are no nurses following advanced training and allowed to undertake a specified category of medical acts usually reserved to doctors. That’s why only doctors give anesthesias over here.
However, there are currently talks about introducing such a system (not spefically for anesthesia). So it might begin to appear in the years to come.
Not in many regions, where they don’t exist. There are places in America with only CRNAs.
And specialized training, and continued education, and, sometimes, training in related fields such as pain control over and above what the state Board of Nursing requires for CRNAs.
And, as I said above, are often the only anesthesia providers for many regions throughout the country. In that case, they’d handle everything.
I mean, everything you said is probably entirely true in your region. I just need to emphasize that it works very differently in other parts of the country.
Did the bitch think she was going to get away with working while high? fuck’s sake
Do you really think that this was the first time? It is certainly possible it was but I doubt it. People work high and don’t cause major problems all the time. It tends to get worse and eventually their luck runs out in a lot of cases. She has probably gotten away with it for a while.
The woman is a monster, plain and simple; having said that, though, one thing confuses me: the procedure being described for kidney stone removal is called a percutaneous nephrotomy (I know, because I’ve had three of them). I’ve never had one, and would never care to attempt one without general anesthesia, or at the very least a total spinal block.
I’m not arguing that the patient needed pain control prior to the surgical procedure. But why the hell were they doing a procedure like that with just IV pain killers??
Not to mention that, if it had been me, I’d have been in big trouble even if the CRNA hadn’t swiped my meds. I don’t care how much stronger than morphine Fentanyl is supposed to be, it doesn’t do a damned thing for me!
But nothing in what I said contradicts what you said.
Even without the added horror of her stealing his painkillers, I can’t imagine having an anesthetist (who is solely responsible for making sure you don’t DIE from the anesthesia) doing her job while under the influence. Admittedly, this guy didn’t GET any anesthesia, but if this is a semi-regular occurrence for her, I wouldn’t want to be a patient having cutting done with her behind my head.
Bitch.
Bring on the calls for tort reform now, bitches.
Ah, but tort reform would only reform away the unreasonable lawsuits. You do know what unreasonable means in a legal sense, don’t you?
Neither does anyone else.
Found this, which makes me feel a little bit better:
From here.
That’s fucked up right thar.
Does the Minnesota board or college of nurses publish disciplinary decisions in a magazine or somewhere available on line? I would be very interested to read THAT case.
In Ontario, nurses are a self-regulated profession, and criminal charges not withstanding there is still the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) hearing and decisions that will address the nurses conduct. These are eventually written up in our professional magazine, The Standard
For example Winter 2010 shows the most recent ones. Disciplinary deciscions start on page 34. Many nurses read that and only that section of the Standardbut it is everyone’s living nightmare to end up in that column.
All that being said, I hope she gets help for her addictions and never practices as a nurse again.
I hope the hospital pays and pays dearly. As you say, not having anasthesia’s no fun at all. When I was a child, the doctor who performed an appendectomy on me first failed to diagnose it correctly (“He’s over-reacting to a common stomachache”) and then, when the appendix burst, he didn’t get all of it out on the first go around. On the second attempt, he decided that I was a whiny child and didn’t need any anashtesia. While I was screaming bloody murder during that fun fun experience, he told the nurses holding me down that I was acting because there was no way I could feel anything he was doing. He was removed from practice during my hospital stay.
Years later I came to the conclusion that the nurses didn’t stop him because he was the authority figure in that situation. After all, who do you expect nurses to listen to more, a child or a doctor? To be fair, it’s because of those nurses going to the chain-of-command (it was an Army hospital), that guy was removed.
Oh, well, how many people do you know who have two appendectomy scars?
Any of the OR nurses who witnessed this should have to answer to their governing body. It was patient abuse and they did nothing to stop it. I was off work on vacation the day that one of my co workers was drunk, passing out at work, leaving care undone for several of her patients. Every one who was working that day was interviewed, and called to task for not reporting the impaired nurse.
Professional ethics took a bad beating that day. I am horrified all around, and yes my thoughts lie mainly with the patient who went through the unendurable. I hope he gets restitution and can overcome any lingering fears of the medical establishment.