LVN Submitted False Home Visit Nursing Note for Hospitalized Patient

LVN Submitted False Home Visit Nursing Note for Hospitalized Patient

Keeping accurate records is super important for nurses. It’s a crucial part of nursing ethics and helps to ensure that patients receive the best possible care, while also making sure that everything is legal. But sometimes, nurses can face allegations of falsifying documentation, which can be super stressful. That’s where nurse defense attorneys come in! They’re there to support you and help you through any investigations or disciplinary proceedings. By providing legal advice and representation, nurse attorneys help to make sure that nurses are treated fairly and with the respect they deserve.

Incident: False Documentation of Home Visit Nursing Note for Hospitalized Patient

During the incident, he was employed as an LVN with a healthcare facility in Odessa, Texas, and had been in that position for approximately two (2) months.

On or about March 16, 2021, while employed as an LVN with a healthcare facility in Odessa, Texas, and assigned to provide nursing care for a patient, LVN submitted a falsified nursing note for a home health visit when the patient had been hospitalized. LVN’s conduct created an inaccurate medical record and was likely to deceive other caregivers who needed complete information on which to base their care.

Without asking for assistance from a nurse defense attorney, the LVN responded and acknowledged he mistakenly authored a nursing note for the patient, dated March 16, 2021, while she was hospitalized. LVN stated this was an oversight due to his work schedule as he had been recently employed at the local Emergency Department working night shifts. According to LVN, in his off time, he would see patients as scheduled by the facility and would routinely enter the visit notes during breaks in his overnight ER schedule. LVN stated he was not scheduled to work with the facility but was called in to “cover” several patients, including the patient in question, who was assigned for a scheduled visit despite her inpatient status. LVN recalled not seeing the patient, due to obvious reasons, however, mistakenly entered the note during his overnight shift for the following night. When confronted, LVN stated he accepted the responsibility, was truthful, and admitted the fault to his RN supervisor, and the violation was corrected when the note was retracted by the facility, and he was subsequently terminated.

The above action constitutes grounds for disciplinary action as it was a violation of the Nursing Practice Act (NPA). The Texas Board of Nursing initiated disciplinary actions against her RN license. If the LVN had hired a skilled and experienced nurse license defense attorney the disciplinary action could have been mitigated into less severe punishment.

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