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• Title: Miriam E. Frick v. Unemployment Compensation Board Review Commonwealth Pennsylvania
• Author : Supreme Court of South Dakota
• Release Date : January 20, 1977
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 73 KB

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The claimant is a registered nurse and had been employed as a staff nurse by the Medicenter Hospital (employer) for a period of six months. The incident which led to her dismissal involved an elderly woman patient who had been admitted, with a diagnosis of a urinary tract disorder, to the hospital unit in which the claimant worked. The patient was fitted with a foley catheter, which is a type of indwelling catheter placed in the bladder for continuous urine drainage, and the physicians orders noted on the patients chart were that the catheter was to remain in place with the required maintenance care and that an accurate record was to be kept of the patients fluid intake and output. These orders, for reasons unexplained by the record, were not followed by the units nursing staff. Instead, for a period of approximately 18 days, the patient was placed on a schedule of bladder training, which involved removal of the catheter and attempts to have the patient regain the bladder function and enable her to urinate without assistance. The patients condition fluctuated throughout this period, and this led her concerned family to contact the treating physician. When the employer then became aware of the situation, the claimant and two other employees were discharged. Following a hearing, the referee denied benefits because of a finding of willful misconduct on

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