Should I complain about this nurse

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or just let it go?

My very vulnerable, very elderly neighbour fell in his house recently and was treated in his home by paramedics.

Today as I was rushing out to an appointment a district nurse approached me and said that she was there to visit my neighbour but he wasn't in/ This really alarmed me due to his vulnerabilities and physical state. I asked if she'd looked in all the rooms and she said she had. I got her phone number to contact her after my appt.

On my return an hour later I came across her again. She told me that she had returned to see if my neighbour had returned home.

He'd never been out. He was sleeping in bed. She lied. She hadn't looked in every room. He could have been dead for all she knew.7

I'm so annoyed at her lying. So unprofessional. AIBU to report her.

If she didn’t care she wouldn’t have approached you

All my nurses and carers had to let themselves in when I was house bound with broken ankle. Most vulnerable people have a key safe

Wow your message is very aggressive. Are you okay?

YABVU
You don’t even know if she had access to the safekey.

Why didn’t you ask her/tell her about it? I suspect you couldn’t be bothered, because it would have made you late.

She was obviously very concerned because she came back.

My rule is not to fuck someone over when you don’t know the full set of circumstances or you’re not you I yourself holy than thou.

You could have checked with the GP surgery or even the police if you were not sure who she was.

If the man had died, you would be witness as to the last person who 'saw' him.

The criteria is if you can attend the GP surgery for a practice nurse appointment if you are mobile and go out if the house.The dn should be only for housebound patients .

You sound a bundle of joy , not .How entitled are you.It is your responsibility to keep the dogs away from the nurse.She has many patients to see this time constraints and cannot wait 15 mins for you to answer the door.Be realistic .

Fuck meeeeee...you really like inventing shit, you should write fantasy novels.

Of course its my responsibility to keep the dogs away from the nurse - that is why I have in my notes that people are not to walk in but should ideally call/text as they leave their previous job or at least knock and wait.

It takes us about 30 seconds to shift the dogs to another room (upstairs, which I can't do you know, being a wheelchair user), but more like 2 minutes if someones knocking or has just walked in and they've gone all giddy.

Everyone else can manage it - OT does - subsequent DN's have- care company have - the builders managed their dog safety instructions for 9 fucking weeks (don't enter the property before 8.30am. Don't open the living room door. Let us know if they'd be using the back yard!) - in fact it was managed so well they didn't know how many dogs we had for the first 7 weeks, it was only when one asked to meet them that they realised we had three, they thought we had 1!

All the DN's I have had here have been lovely, but just that first one failed to read her notes properly and walked in - nothing actually happened but it took a few minutes to move dogs around which wouldn't have been the case if she'd bothered. And I only mentioned it at all to refute the claim that nurses cannot and do not ever just 'walk in'. Yes they do.

She was not lazy she returned.The nurse has a duty of care and has to follow confidentiality protocol.She cannot legally give a random neighbour information without the patients permission.She could be struck off the N.M.C register by disclosing confidential information to nosy neighbours.Would the op like some random person knowing her confidential care details ?

You can’t assume she would have access to the keysafe code, I do home visits and I have never seen a keysafe code or information about it
on the systems we use, if I knock on the door and no one answers I leave. The only time I would know about a keysafe is if the patient or the family contacted us to tell us about it.

The systems across health and social care are not all joined up, I can’t see the same information GPs, carers or other hospitals can see, even within the same hospital there is information only some departments have access to, as each department uses different IT systems. Just because he has carers who use a keysafe it doesn’t mean any other professional who comes to visit him knows about it too and has the code to it.

My consultant put me under the care of the district nurses. Practice nurses do not deal with post surgical wound care where I am and I needed support out of hours. Perhaps different trusts operate differently.