Putting my nurse's hat on, I cannot understand why the licensing boards have not become involved long ago.
Based on reports I have heard, she has not been out of her room for 5 years and the windows allow for no daylight.
Things I do as normal nursing care, Range of Motion which does not need to be ordered by an MD have not been done.
I value my license and if a family member or even a judge ordered me to act in a way that would put my license at risk, I'd say no way, no how. And if I was fired, I would go to the Board of Nursing.
When a patient is admitted for comfort care, he or she gets the exact care I would give a patient who was expected to walk out of the hospital the next day.
I believe the nurses who have spoken out. I believe them when they say Terri can and did interact with them. Nurses spend more time with a patient than the MD who makes the big bucks and everyone quotes as if Moses came down from the mountain.
In any institutional setting the floor monkeys are the eyes and ears of the doctors. It seems in this case, the ones in charge chose to ignore the floor monkeys.
This is why I am pulling for Terri.
Regarding the insulin and the disappearing notes, that would have been a case where I would have made a copy of my nurse's notes because if I did suspect as much, I would not want anyone pointing at me. As I said before, Sh!t rolls downhill.
If I had been one of those nurses's, I would have been talking to the licensing boards long ago.
I would also have gone to the the accredidation commission.
Exactly and part of what is bothering me -- you don't wait for so long before you do something and now they are all over the talk shows.