When trusted medical professionals let down their employers, more than just the hospital suffers the consequences. Sometimes, the consequences are deadly. Charles Cullen is one of those cases. As a 14-year nursing veteran, Cullen confessed in New Jersey in 2003 to killing between 30 and 40 patients. Shockingly, Cullen is not ...
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Criminal Background Check – Cyanide-Laced Body was the Deadly Work of a Killer Nurse
When we go to the hospital for medical care, we expect to have our health improved. But one nurse at the Veterans Administration was doing just the opposite. While others were saving lives around him, Donald Harvey was quietly killing them. It is suspected that his killing spree may date back ...
Employment Screening – What Can Go Wrong When You Don’t Pre-Screen Employees
In healthcare, missing the minute details about an employee’s past can be devastating, both for the healthcare facility as well as the patients they care for. At some point in our lives, everyone is a consumer of the services provided by medical professionals and we put tremendous trust in them. We ...
Success Tips: How to Hire with Confidence Every Time
It’s an uncomfortable experience: that sudden stabbing feeling in your gut when you realize that an employee you hired is not who you thought they were. It can come as a shock, as in the case of finding out that someone is stealing from the company. Or, it can be an obvious ...
