Nurse falsified medical information in my record to cover herself?

A nurse noted in my record that I was demanding narcotics abusively at the front desk of the ER at a public hospital. In the four hours that I was waiting for the results of my CT Scan following the possible rupture of an arachnoid cyst in my left frontal lobe, I heard her threaten to call security on a young black guy who quietly came out of his room and asked if he was going to be seen soon. This older nurse yelled at him to go back to his room RIGHT NOW or she could even call the police on him! It scared me how hostile she was to him. He quietly said, that he should call the police on her and said he was leaving at once. She demanded to know where he was going after he walked away.

I had been left in the room for a while with moderate headache. I reported it as a four on a 1-10 pain scale from the moment I arrived. After I saw the Dr., I was leaving to check out and I asked the mean nurse for her name because she yelled at me to go to my room or she would call security on me.

She actually turned her badge around to hide her name from me. I asked her why she was doing that. She finally told me her name in a weird polite way. She kept threatening to call security on me 3 times. I told her I was within my rights and was not being combative with her. I told her that I thought she was abusive to patients--as a medical professional myself. She did not know that I was a Navy nurse.

I picked up my medical record today (2 days later) and found that she wrote in the notes that I was demanding narcotics abusively from the front desk and that is why she called security which she evidently called after I had left the department. What a delayed reaction. She made me look like some crazed drug abuser in my record. I have no history of drug abusive and my medical labs are free of any drugs other than the ones prescribed to me by the VA. I do not even drink. She absolutely lied to discredit my complaint about her hostility to patients.
I don't know what to do.

You need to report her immediately to the head of the hospital, the state licensing bureau for nurses, and all of the accreditation organizations the hospital are a member of. Please don't let her get away with this since many people don't have your knowledge or ability and she can just run amok over them.

I do not get it, all hospital have an ER area totally seperate from the area yiou would be in a hospital bed, unless you wer having an urgent investigation.

You will need to report her to the medical counsel or whatever authory you have.

these people make up stories so they can feel satisfied. u have the right to ask the board to carry out a mental test on her to see if she is mentally fit to operate at the front desk.

Ask for these three damages:
1. Moral damage
2. Material damages
3. Punitive damages.
This is a bonanza and a short cut to be rich. GOOD LUCK!

You need to place a formal complain, both verbally and in writng(keep a copy) to the health insurance commission as well as the head of the emergency department(i am assuming that is were you where), also send the complaint to the head of nursing. Do not send an email as they can always deny receiving it. Find out the name on the necessary people, it should be readily available via the hospital web page and send the letters by registered post.The people in question will need to sign to receive it, so there is no denying they received it.
How dare she try to discredit you.....
This nurse needs to be dealt with...be strong... you will be helping others by dealing with this now.

If you want the Medical Records Ammended you have to request in writing to a doctor that oversees her.
Call the hospital and find out the who is the head honcho. It shouldn't be too difficult.
Write a letter (and make copies explainiing what you have said here with copies of the what she wrote on your medical records and either mail it to or hand deliver it to the the higher up as well as the Medical Records Department and the Board of Directors and anyone else that you think might be disturbed to hear it. Make sure you send contact information so that they are able to get ahold of you. Hopefully they will call you and give you some advice.

But you have to keep in mind that doctors usually need proof. I totally beleive you, but there are no cameras etc. but I am sure that there are poeple that work with her that would love to get her turned in, and you may implore the doctors to consult the nurses' immediate co-workers.

I know how frusterating that must be but I know that (at least in Ohio) with the exception of lists of major surgeries, medical problems and diagnoses, after 7 years, your medical records are usually destroyed (Docs are only required to hold onto 7 years of immediate material for patients with exception of the lists I mentioned).


If she IS caught however she would by law be fired, and either hace a large fine (usually in the 10,000 range) or have 6 months to 1 year in jail). Again, see if you can't ask her co-workers AFTER you ahve sent the letter to everyone, if they know of anything...