Nursing home let resident's foot rot untreated, a nurse decided then to cut it off and takes it to a taxidermy shop

[Jwheel86]

He dead. 

 

After renegade nurse chops off man’s foot, state finds heap of system failures

ARSTECHNICA.COM

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Nurse wanted to stuff the amputated foot and use it to scare children.

 

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 Further, the man, a 62-year-old patient who was not cognitively impaired and was in charge of making his own medical decisions, had not consented to the amputation.

 

State inspectors found that once he was placed in the care of the nursing home, staff failed to notify hospice or any physician that the man's condition was worsening. Though they should have been conducting weekly assessments of his feet, the facility did not perform any assessments over months.

 

Brown reportedly put the foot in a biohazard bag and placed it in a freezer. A nursing assistant at the facility told investigators that Brown later pressured her to retrieve the foot because Brown wanted to preserve it in her family's taxidermy shop and display it with a sign saying, "Wear your boots, kids."

 

Leadership at the nursing home, meanwhile, failed to respond to the incident properly, according to the state report. According to federal regulations, the nursing home should have reported the incident to state authorities within 24 hours. But, it took the nursing home a full week to report the incident. At that point, an anonymous complaint had already alerted the state, and the man had died.

 

America. 

[Jason]

 

[Jwheel86]

16 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

opps!