A thousand dollar cough drop! Think I'm kidding right well I'm not. Let me tell you a little story, In a Californian
prison a L.V.N is making her/his medication rounds on a weekend second shift she /he stops to give a inmate his meds. The inmate say hey I got a sore throat how about a cough drop!The L.V.N says sorry you have no order for that and I can't give you an OTC (over the counter drug )with out the R.N coming over and saying you can have it.( the R.N on weekends second shift covers the entire prison}The inmate now gets upset and goes "Man Down"(meaning the inmate is now saying that he is having life threading medical problems)Now the L.V.N has to call a Man Down which brings the R.N and at the minimum three COs( corrections office) to carry the inmate to the infirmary to be looked at .Here we are talking about 5 state workers and 2 hours(= of paper work for a 25 cent cough drop,Now the cost of that cough drop $1000 .This happens very often I would say 20 to 100 times daily some where in the state prison system start adding that up for a year and the cost is crazy
How could have we the tax payer and the state have saved that money? simple let the L.V.N work her/his full license OTCs have no reason to be approved every time by a R.N
prison a L.V.N is making her/his medication rounds on a weekend second shift she /he stops to give a inmate his meds. The inmate say hey I got a sore throat how about a cough drop!The L.V.N says sorry you have no order for that and I can't give you an OTC (over the counter drug )with out the R.N coming over and saying you can have it.( the R.N on weekends second shift covers the entire prison}The inmate now gets upset and goes "Man Down"(meaning the inmate is now saying that he is having life threading medical problems)Now the L.V.N has to call a Man Down which brings the R.N and at the minimum three COs( corrections office) to carry the inmate to the infirmary to be looked at .Here we are talking about 5 state workers and 2 hours(= of paper work for a 25 cent cough drop,Now the cost of that cough drop $1000 .This happens very often I would say 20 to 100 times daily some where in the state prison system start adding that up for a year and the cost is crazy
How could have we the tax payer and the state have saved that money? simple let the L.V.N work her/his full license OTCs have no reason to be approved every time by a R.N
No comments:
Post a Comment