well, looks like I found another word I never heard of, does anybody here know what she looks like? is she old? what is here age, cause when I search it up, it just shows pictures of random woman and the articles for the case, and some of these woman might not even be her, does she even have social media perhaps?
Yes, but it sounds like the nurse was instructed specifically NOT to help it along. Orders should have been written to debride and/or remove the foot, after administering pain meds. It’s hospice, they could have administered very high levels of pain meds. Perhaps the man didn’t feel a thing, as he was already medicated, but following appropriate protocols, handling the situation properly and documenting it would have preserved the man’s dignity and kept the nurse from facing taxidermy rumors and accusations.
Yes, an RN could clean and debride the wound which could cause the foot to separate from the body, depending on bone and joint condition. Others have told their stories, and I have found a toe in the bed in a burn unit, so if the foot was that close to separating, normal care, even rolling the patient, could cause it to come off.
Thanks for sharing.
She may not have helped it along. People have very vivid imaginations in my experience.
And no documentation of a missing foot? Ugh… this is really sick.
Wow. Sounds like an awful facility.After renegade nurse chops off man’s foot, state finds heap of system failures
Nurse wanted to stuff the amputated foot and use it to scare children.arstechnica.com
”The man died on June 2, six days after losing his foot. A nursing aide who spoke with state investigators said the man "really declined after his foot was gone," according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which reviewed a state inspection report.
No doctor authorized or ordered an amputation of the man's foot. And as a nurse, Brown did not have the authority or training to provide an amputation in any case because such a procedure is simply outside of the scope of practice for registered nurses. 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.
Gruesome details
The man had been placed in the nursing home, Spring Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center, in March after he fell in his home with the heat turned off, leading to frostbite that left his feet blackened and necrotic.
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.
Two days before Brown cut off the man's foot, the patient fell from his bed, injuring his foot further, and was delirious and "talking in word salad," according to the state's inspection report.”
So the nurse didn't hack it off and take it home for taxidermy like the headlines suggest?
