(Photo courtesy of the Iowa Board of Nursing)
The state of Iowa has agreed to reinstate the license of a nurse previously sanctioned for failing to make multiple home-health visits to patients.
In July 2020, the Iowa Board of Nursing charged registered nurse Temeshia Renee Bomato, then known as Temeshia Renee Jacobs, with failing to properly assess or evaluate patients’ status and committing an act that might adversely affect a patient.
The board alleged that between October 2019 and January 2020, Bomato was working for an unspecified home health care agency when she repeatedly failed to make multiple scheduled visits to patients’ homes, failed to properly document visits she did make, failed to inform her employer of the missed visits, and failed to inform physicians of scheduled nursing visits that had been ordered.
In October 2020, the board settled the matter by agreeing to let Bomato keep her license, subject to one year of probation, during which time she’d be barred from working in a home-health setting and be required to complete a total of 15 hours of educational training on ethics, professional accountability and medical documentation.