She used a cigarette lighter
Posted by Patti on April 19th, 2007 / Print This Post
WHAT would cause a CNA to do THIS??
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A nursing home employee was jailed for allegedly using a cigarette lighter to set fire to an elderly patient’s bed over the weekend.Huntsville Public Safety Director Rex Reynolds said Tina Louise Spencer, 31, was booked into the county jail Saturday on charges of first-degree arson and attempted murder. She was being held on $6,000 bond.
Spencer is accused of setting fire to the bed of Ann Hudson, 88, at Carlton Cove nursing home. The condition of Hudson, who is bedridden, was not immediately available, but Carlton Cove executive director Dan Shields said she sustained first- and second-degree burns.
I just cannot fathom ANY aide doing something like this. No way. There has to be more to this story then is being reported.
April 20th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Sick.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
people like this give CNA’s a bad name…you never hear of the cna that help saved a life or sat with a patient/resident because the didn’t have family …or all the other things we do!
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:50 am
Isn’t that the truth! And I look for the good stories about us and they’re just NOT to be found. It’s sad…
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:44 pm
This is the kind of news society wants to hear, I think. Not WANTS to hear, so much as what they will watch or read. It is sad…I will try to locate positive news articles about CNA’s and post them here. They are very rare indeed.
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:48 pm
living in a small town has its benifits…some times we get cards from our patients or patients family thanking us fro the great care they recieved…sometimes the even point out nurses and cna’s by name….this gets posted at our time clock/ bullatin board in the hospital hall….so all can see and read….it makes you smile just to read it!