Marion et alia:-
This is one incident that I was involved in at the Assisted Living facility my wife and I were in.
Unfortunately, my wife got her "walker" caught in a bathroom rug as she prepared to shower and took a spill. There are 2 nurses and an LPN there but they CANNOT engage in any "skilled nursing". Fortunately my wife was not seriously hurt but did get a cut on her arm. The LPN put a Band-Aid and some bacetracin on her cut while we waited for the EMT people to take her to the hospital to xray her head on which she had a lump.
When the EMTs arrived, the LPN gave them a dissertation about how she had "medically dressed" my wife's arm to save them time. One of the EMTs who was visibly upset with the LPN said "Lady I can see that you put a Band-Aid and bacetracin on her arm but that is all you did. If you knew what "dressing a wound was - you would know that it is much more complicated than that. Please get out of our way".
Later I talked with the EMT and he told me that they call people like that LPN -People who Like to Play Nurse.
From that day until the day we left, the LPN avoided me like the plague but was NOT smart enough to keep her pie hole shut. She decided to tell the Private Nurses we had the Chapter and the verse of the incident. I have heard from several other agencies dripping with sarcasm of her "Dressing of the Wound". I never mentioned the incident but she opened her mouth to brag and inserted both feet.
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