Patient safety is paramount in healthcare, and the accurate implementation of monitoring orders is critical to ensuring timely intervention and care. In situations where nurses face allegations related to patient monitoring lapses, a nurse attorney becomes an invaluable resource. By providing guidance and support, nurse defense attorneys contribute to accountability within the healthcare profession, safeguarding the nurse’s rights and professional reputation while promoting patient safety.
At the time of the initial incident, she was employed as an RN at a medical facility in San Angelo, Texas, and had been in that position for five (5) months.
On or about March 14, 2021, while employed as an RN at a medical facility in San Angelo, Texas, RN failed to appropriately verify telemetry monitoring orders for a patient at the start of her shift when she saw the patient had a tele monitor on, and ensure the patient was being monitored; subsequently, the patient’s heart rhythm was not being monitored remotely by the telemetry technicians. RN’s conduct was likely to injure the patient from potentially adverse complications of undetected and untreated cardiac arrhythmias.
Without asking for guidance from a nurse attorney, the RN responded to the above incident and stated that the day shift nurse did not mention on the report that the patient was on telemetry monitoring. RN also stated she noticed the patient wearing a telemetry monitor during initial rounds and she had no reason to believe the patient’s heart rhythm was not being remotely monitored. The RN further stated she was not contacted by the telemetry technician that the patient was not being monitored and stated the telemetry technicians did not follow policy.
The Texas Board of Nursing then subjected the RN and her license to disciplinary action. The accusation would have been defended by an experienced and skilled Texas Nurse Attorney, had the RN hired one. Hiring a Texas Nurse Attorney for defense is applicable for any kind of accusations laid against an RN or LVN.
For more details and to schedule a legal consultation, you must approach one of the most experienced Texas Nurse Attorney, Yong J. An. He has been a nurse attorney since 2006 and has represented more than 600 nurse cases for RNs and LVNs.
You can reach him at (832) 428-5679 to get started or to inquire for more information regarding nursing license cases from the Texas BON.