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Unsafe culture permeates Aurora VA’s ICU, staffers allege. The message? ‘Shut up and do what you’re told.’

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The Denver Post obtained emails from the VA's Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center. The emails show the ICU used COVID-era staffing workarounds long after the public health crisis eased. Nurses were asked to care for more patients than is generally considered acceptable, and untrained nurses were tasked with helping critically ill veterans.

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Unsafe culture permeates Aurora VA’s ICU, staffers allege. The message? ‘Shut up and do what you’re told.’

On Feb. 20, 2023, a 77-year-old man was admitted to the intensive care unit at Aurora’s Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center for chronic kidney disease. Two weeks later, nurses and doctors grew concerned after learning the man’s significant other, unbeknownst to ICU staff, had been giving him a tincture under his tongue while he slept. The care team didn’t know what was in this remedy. Yet ICU leadership instructed nurses to keep giving it …

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