Mrs. Passmore Case Summary

At 5am Officer Singh called SA Lyn Brumaire who was on duty at Coral Tower because Jordan Horvat was worried a resident of 902, Stephanie Lee, was missing. Upon keying into the room with PSO Tabiri, the resident in questions, Stephanie Lee was found to be missing from her apt. Officer Tabiri then decided to take a statement from SA and resident Macayla Caso. Ms. Horvat was also not present in the room. Ms. Caso was under the assumption that Ms. Horvat had gone home since she was packing earlier in the day and the sheets were stripped off her bed.

T.R. is a 69 year old, Caucasian female with a history of schizophrenia who presented to University Hospital Medical Center Emergency Room under Baker Act for recent suicidal attempt. According to the Baker Act report, she ran out of her retirement facility, trying to be hit by vehicles. She suffered a slight injury to her right ankle, as the slightly slightly hit her in an effort to abruptly stop the vehicle. She verbalized to police officers she wanted to die. She reported that peers in her retirement community learned about her history and had been gossiping about her. She reported increased paranoia due to this. She was hospitalized in the same psychiatric unit two months ago, after she was diagnosed with depression. Patient states the reason she was diagnosed with depression is because her two sons are not willing to talk to her. She states that she is separated and living without her family in an Assisted Living Facility. As per patient and chart review, the patient was born and raised in New Jersey and moved to South Florida. The patient currently lives in a retirement home and had to move several times to the different Assisted Living Facility, due to her paranoia and delusional behavior. She is currently retired and reports that she used to work from home as a home health aide. She has two sons and tries to maintain a good relationship with them, but denies any contact with them. She reports the biggest stressor is basically a relationship with her

The patient is a 12 year old female who presented to the ED with thoughts of self harm and cutting behaviors. The patient denies suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, and symptoms of psychosis. The patient reports that she has been sad lately. Per- documentation the patient reports to peers at her school that she was trying to kill herself, which the school sent her to DayMark. Further, Daymak IVC the patient and requested further evaluation.

Mrs. Payne is a 48 year old female who presented to the ED via EMS following her visiting to Liberty, NC from Greensboro and going into the police department and reporting she was having suicidal thoughts to wreck her car. During Mrs. Payne being triage she informed ED staff of compliant as a plan to over dose on Oxycodone at home. She reports not being able to get to prescribed Geodon and Valium for the past 2 weeks.

On 09/15/16, there is a Screening Report stating that Ms Rikki Miller (AKA: Bennett) called the GPPD asking to take her child, Keaton to the hospital because he was having bad behavior and she also asked to have her child removed from her home. DHS took that child and placed in the child’s home.

Dana White alleges substandard medical care after undergoing a knee arthroscopy with partial medial meniscectomy and chondroplasty. While the surgery itself was without incident Ms. White later had what she felt were signs of a possible infection pink tinged drainage) a week after her surgery. Dr. Passanise failed to culture the drainage at her post-operative appointment and Ms. White eventually had to have two diagnostic arthroscopies with irrigation, and a debridement before being diagnosed with a Group B Streptococcus infection. Ms. White feels is Dr. Passanise would had cultured the wound area at her first post-operative appointment, most of the issues and expenses could have been

Pt is a 12 y/o Caucasian female presenting to NNBHC due to self-harming behaviors. The pt stated that she had an “episode” last night stating she was crying and inconsolable making SI statements and self-harmed. Pt showed assessor about 10 superficial slashes from a razor she used to her left forearm. The pt stated she had it in her room for almost 5 months just in case if she felt she was needed to feel the pain. Mother reports she was there during the episode and the left the pt for less than 2 minutes when she engaged in self-harming behaviors. The pt stated this episode went on for almost a 1.5hr, and there was an unknown trigger. Per mother report there have been some stressors in regards of the mother and father

Ms. Maness is a 45 year old female who presented to the ED with an alleged overdose on 3 pills of Keppra and 3 pills of Librium in a attempt to harm self. Ms. Maness denies suicidal ideations, homicidal ideations, and symptoms of psychosis. Ms. Maness reports a history of Alcohol abuse and recently was 3 days sober, however last night relapsed after conflict with hr boyfriend. Ms. Maness does not appears to be responding to any internal stimuli.

Mrs. Casey case falls within the time frame established by the statutes of limitations as she filed the lawsuit shortly after the being dismissed from the hospital after her second admission, due to the early dismissal, and against her attending physician recommendations. The second admission duration was three weeks. However, no evidence demonstrates how long after the discharge she filed the lawsuit. Nevertheless, I believe that this can be readily determined by comparing the dates in which the dismissal from the hospital occur and the time when the lawsuit was filed. If I were the judge, in this case, I would take into consideration the dates but most importantly the fact that this patient had to be readmitted due to poor clinical hospital

This worker recommends that Vickie and Richard Brown adopt Antonio James in order to provide him with permanency. The emotional bond between Richard, Vickie, and Antonio is evident. Antonio considers the home his and views it as a source of comfort and safety. Vickie and Richard demonstrate a solid understanding of Antonio's history, possible needs, and have no hesitation in providing for those needs. They have a current foster care license with our agency. Vickie and Richards's licensing worker, Leslie Boyd, was contacted on 5/19/2016, in regards to the prospective adoption of Antonio. Leslie stated that she has no concerns about Vickie and Richard Brown adopting Antonio and does not foresee any problems with the foster care license. The

Mrs. Meuser is a 25 year old female who presented to the ED experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations. She also endorse suicidal ideation without a plan. Mrs. Meuser has a superficial laceration to her left arm after cutting herself tonight before arrival to the ED. Per documentation Mrs. Meuser presents with pressured speech and very guarded. She has been responding to internal stimuli while in the ED. She reports while in her room a unknown female is standing behind her and telling her to harm herself. Per documentation Mrs. Meuser began to point at a blank spot in the room yelling, "It's all her fault, Mary should burn in hell." Mary was later identified as her biological mother's name. Family at bedside. The family reports Mrs. Meuser

Ms. Castellano denies mental health. Client denies any in-patient psychiatric hospitalization or out-patient treatment. Client denies history of homicidal or suicidal ideation or behavior. Client denies history of Alcohol Abuse and Substance Abuse.

Reflecting on Sally Richard’s case in the introduction, although fictitious, truly represents the process of what a sexual assault, rape, domestic abuse, trauma, etc. patient endures for SANE nurses to collect the evidence needed to support the victim’s case. For forensic nurses, they must ensure that medico-legal examinations prioritize medical care over corporeal evidence collection, with prosecutors emphasizing this on direct observation to ward off accusations of biased witness. Even though history and documented injuries collected by SANEs could be of use for prosecution of the accused, the record should be medically fixated, with careful planning to specialty treatment. For a reliable Medico-legal record, there are certain components

L is a 16 year old, Caucasian female student admitted to the adolescent mental health unit of a major Brisbane hospital due to active suicidal ideations manifested by taking a recent overdose. This was also accompanied by thoughts of harming herself and ending her life. L has a history of suicidal ideation, an eating disorder and self-harming. L was picked up from school by her stepfather and later disclosed that she didn’t want to be here anymore and wanted to die.

The patient expressed she has no current suicidal ideation or homicidal ideation. However, she admitted to suicidal ideation in the past, right after her breakup, approximately two months ago. She expressed that she wanted to hurt herself and had a plan on how to do so, but did not think she could go through with it. Her plan was to overdose by taking her mother’s