What I have read and seen evidence of. And my own questions...your thread was the most helpful when I was trying to catch up a couple days ago, so I joined. I am a nurse too.
The most important thing being a nurse is to be at work before 7am or 7pm to be prepared for report on your 6-10 patients that starts promptly at 7. And if the nurse coming off duty and the new nurse coming on duty are both ready we can start earlier with report, because the only patients allowed to stay in hospitals with multiple insurance plans, are beyond sick and quite complicated. We need to get out of report as as possible. Most medications are due at 8 and 9. Many with their first meal, blood sugars before they eat, etc. Hospital RN's are expected to give all medications within 30 mns of scheduled times. So, yes it is critical that the nurse is there at the above time. Yes, as 7 the supervisor while getting their own report for the unit, starts trying to reach the nurse. There isn't anyone sitting around waiting to step in. Nurses have a protocol that they need to call in to work a number of hours before their shift, the earlier the better to try to find someone to replace them. Even if a nurse is going to arrive at 702 they are expected to let their working unit know. We also do call their designated person to see if they know anything or can help to find out where they are. And again a nurse has a history of always being there and on time.....so we would call for a welfare check. Hospitals don't allow the nurse off duty to clock out after 730. With that being said hospitals also don't allow the oncoming nurse to clock in before 7. That information is for anyone questioning why the employer called for a welfare check for people that are not familiar with how critical time is in the nursing profession.
....Above also explains why I don't believe that even if a person asked her for a car jump or anything having the above first and foremost in her mind that she would offer to help. Critical to be there by 7!
....Read on other nurses facebook that I know that her phone was turned off at 7. The critical time then is 630-700am and what happened in that time. Reports are that she always drove her car and her car was still parked where it should be.
....Read that police did enter her apartment, but it appears none of her friends know anything about what they found or didn't find.
.....Another friend said she loved her dog more than anything. Makes me wonder if she took her dog out for a walk, even before the normal time for her to leave at 630am. Work only takes 10 minutes by car. 15 mns maximum.
.....Ran across a couple posts that said within the two weeks prior, there were at least two women that were approached in the morning by a woman asking for help with her car, around the same time, one said her hair stood up on the back of her neck as she was within arms reach of the car and she felt that the woman was going to do something creepy to force her into her car and got out of there. Rumor has it neither one reported to anyone. There is also a secure garage that matches the floor that the tenant lives on. Yet, in a review of the apartments where she lives I read that a guys car was broken into and damaged in the secure garage recently and management was refusing to help.
...August 25 wedding. Have read were together seven years. Husband is on active duty about a six hour drive away. Husband has/had physical therapy practice for many years, in Beaverton nearby. Well liked member of the community.
....All apartment doors have same type of electronic opening/shutting and records the time. Door definitely closed I believe said 630am, give 1 or 2 mns either way. Not opened again from what I can put together.
There are other questions that I have but this is a LONG post as it is.....thank you if anyone has any thoughts.......
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