Care nurse mistreatment?

This nurse is an RN? I have never heard of using a spoon for constipation or impaction but that doesn't mean it isn't an approved method, we haven't had to deal with impaction so far. I would be shocked too though and particularly concerned that any caregiver, whatever their credentials, went ahead and did an invasive procedure or treatment without the direction of a doctor or OK from a family member with authority and or competent patient. Is your grandmother competent mentally and did she understand what the nurse was wanting to do? Because I don't know if this is an acceptable resolve to constipation or if perhaps this nurse has brad standing orders and authority I think if I were in your shoes and no harm had really been done to GM, I probably wouldn't "report" her but I would contact her supervisor and express my concern about hearing after the fact this had been done without talking to GM's family about it, had she presented the idea to me I would have contacted my mom's doctor to see if she thought it a good idea, maybe saying something like that would get the point across.

As I say this I think it's important as well to say if you aren't grandmothers primary caregiver/medical contact that's the person who should be the one to contact the company and address this. You may very well be the person who coordinates grandma's care and or her primary caregiver, you obviously care about her very much and are involved, I just mention the point person being the one to deal with it because it will keep the line of communication cleaner as well as not put stress on your relationship with the family or whoever is.

This is a Certified Nurses Aide. And as such, its not within her job description to do what she did. There has been mentioned on this forum where the bowel has to be manipulated to work by a Registered Nurse (RN). I don't think it should be done by a CNA who has not had this type of training. Her job is to bathe ur Gma, only. That is part of what her training consists of. CNAs get no medical training.

If this is an agency aide or Medicaid I would speak to her boss.

The gastro intestinal tract of an aged person is paper thin---a spoon (ugh, oh, ugh) could easily cause a cut or perforation.

My SIL is a gastroenterologist and he would lose his mind if he heard this. MANY elderly die from perforated intestinal walls--

there is a 'spoon like' instrument that TRAINED nurses and drs use, but not as a first line of defense.

And complain to the nurses' company. This is NOT OK treatment.

Please make sure your grandmother is checked by a health care professional, what she did is unbelievable and could have caused internal damage, it definitely needs to be reported. I doubt that a nurse - as in an RN - is working as a bath aid or that this person is in any way qualified to provide that level of care.