[net-gold] Articles: Including UTI Guidelines : More on Winkler Case

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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:28:45 -0500 (EST)




[Net-Gold] Articles:  Including UTI Guidelines : More on Winkler Case


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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:22:36 -0600
From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <bacello@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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To: Net-Gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Net-Gold] Articles:  Including UTI Guidelines



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Articles: Including UTI Guidelines

New guidelines cover catheter-associated UTIs

<http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/716906>

New guidelines cover catheter-associated UTIs

New guidelines on catheter-associated urinary
tract infections are aimed at prevention and
treatment in hospital and long-term care
patients. The authors said one way to prevent
infections is nurse-based or electronic
physician reminder systems or automatic
stop-orders that ensure catheters are only
used when needed.
Medscape
(free registration)
(2/12)

LGBT nursing home to open this month
Bay Windows

The Elsie Frank House joins a scholarship
program of the same name offered
by Parents, Friends, and Family of
Lesbians & Gays (PGLAG), designed for
high ...

<http://www.baywindows.com/
index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=
news&sc3=&id=102233>

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This is my last email on the Winkler
Co debacle unless the medical board
decides to do something with Arafiles'
license. (Star Telegram article
below says they have not acted yet.)
Several of the articles below are
enlightening. All are supportive.....BA

Read more of what Vicki and Anne
had to say after the trial.

<http://www.texasnurses.org/
displaycommon.cfm?an=
1&subarticlenbr=509#verdict>

Medical emergency In reporting a
doctor's mistakes, a West Texas nurse
risked ...

Houston Chronicle

... small thing in tiny Kermit, Texas.
But they saw it as their professional
duty to report what they believed was
shoddy work by Dr. Rolando G. Arafiles. ...

<snip>

Texas, it turns out, has laws that
protect whistle-blowers but only from
civil suits. Criminal prosecution is
another matter entirely. After the
medical board received the nurses'
anonymous complaint, its investigators
gave a copy to Dr. Arafiles. That
complaint alleged that he'd given
patients inappropriate care, including
sewing a rubber tip not intended to
be attached to humans onto a patient's
crushed finger (a case that the
Texas Department of State Health
Services had red-flagged). Too, the
complaint noted, Arafiles urged
patients to buy Zrii, a questionable
nutrition supplement sold via a
pyramid-marketing structure.

<http://www.chron.com/disp/
story.mpl/editorial/6863280.html>

This is very nicely done:

American Federation of Teachers makes
statement following aquittal of
Kermit nurse
KOSA

For her to be charged with a crime
for making an anonymous complaint to the
Texas Medical Board, which licenses and
disciplines doctors, was literally
a ...

<http://www.cbs7kosa.com/
news/details.asp?ID=17879>

Whistleblowing Nurse Found Not Guilty
InjuryBoard.com (blog)

The case ignited deep concerns amongst
health care workers about the
implications of whistleblowing on
doctors suspected of medical
malpractice....

<http://lansing.injuryboard.com/
medical-malpractice/whistleblowing-
nurse-found-not-guilty.aspx>

Full text from Dallas Morning News:

It's not a felony to blow a whistle

A jury took less than an hour to
see through the absurd prosecution of a
West Texas nurse whose only "crime"
was reporting questionable behavior to
the Texas Medical Board. The New York
Times reported that after the
nurse's unsigned complaint became
known to the doctor, he called his pal
the sheriff to hunt down the anonymous
source. Anne B. Mitchell was
discovered and summarily fired
without cause. Then the Winkler County
district attorney accused the nurse of
acting on a vendetta and charged
her with a felony ("misuse of official
information"). Even the Medical
Board asked officials to back off,
understanding that this could have a
chilling effect on health professionals
who have a duty to report questionable
practices. Sheriff Robert L. Roberts Jr.
and prosecutors said they had confidence
in this bum steer of a case. Voters
should have less confidence in them.

Texas nurse acquitted of felony
charge for reporting doctor
Fort Worth Star Telegram

By YAMIL BERARD A Kermit nurse did
not commit a felony by reporting
concerns about a doctor to the state
medical board, a West Texas jury
decided Thursday. ...

<http://www.star-telegram.com/189/
story/1963348.html?storylink=omni_popular>

"Barbara Acello, RN"
<bacello@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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