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Originally posted by dave:
If the charges are true, I have no idea how a person could do this.

I have wondered how I would feel if a made a mistake that resulted in a patient injury.

I am with you, Dave. I have worked in dialysis for 8 yrs and cannot imagine a healthcare worker intentionally hurting a patient. I cried when I infiltrated a patient!! It is just hard for me to believe and doesn't make sence to me at all. Something is telling me that she is simply a scapgoat here.

We heard that there were more than 2 patients that have passed away in a short period of time. From the news article it looked like they were charging her with 2 But there maybe more charges coming?

This sounds very odd...
The article said they felt discomfort immediately but nothing about any deaths. I wonder what really happened?

I know its an odd question, but how much bleach would be fatal? If only a very tiny amount, then maybe a possible accident. But if it would take a syringe full, more likely intentional.

Sad either way.

Bleach causes Hemolysis and depending on the patient's health, it wouldn't take that much.

The nurse was charged with allegedly injecting bleach into 2 patient's lines. Neither patient died but one was sent to the hospital.

The really odd part of the story is that 2 people claimed they "witnessed" the nurse injecting the bleach into the 2 patients lines. Doesn't say whether they were staff or patients but either way wouldn't you think after the first time she did it one or both of these alleged witnesses would have tried to stop her.

The nurse charged stated that she did draw up bleach in a 10 cc syringe to make up the bleach solution for disinfection but that she did not inject it into the blood lines. She did however give one of the patients saline because their venous chamber was clotting. She also stated that she recorded this but supposedly the patient's record did not show that she administered saline. Maybe her entry was deleted not that anybody would do that.

As far as the "unusually high number of patient deaths" that was the reason the unit was closed, seems as if the number of deaths in question is now 4. But so far there's be nothing to link those with the nurse that was charged.

There seems to be a whole lot more to this story......

There's always more to the story...

The way I've always been taught is this... if you see someone doing something that you know is wrong and do nothing about it, then you're just as guilty as they are. If someone saw them doing something wrong, then why aren't they up on charges too?

I ain't gonna make any accusations, but I would bet that you'd find something a little off at any DaVita clinic you went to. Just my 2 cents.

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I ain't gonna make any accusations, but I would bet that you'd find something a little off at any DaVita clinic you went to. Just my 2 cents.

I would be willing to bet that statement would be true no matter the company... 100% is very rare for everything day in and out in the medical world...

I was reading the story link on Renalweb. Does anyone else think some people responsible for this need some prison time? Termination of the responsible employees is not enough. A fine is not enough.

Did you see in the article that Davita checked her references after they let her go and found that she had been let go for some sort of discrepency in the drug log. Her state license has been suspended but will that do any good if no one checks??