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  1. Increasing med-admin safety with no-tech/low-tech
  2. Barcode Scanning
  3. Two Patient Identifiers
  4. Travel RN, IS THIS CHARGE? , safety, Nursery / NICU
  5. prevention
  6. "Continous" Telemetry Monitoring
  7. Anchoring drips and drains
  8. Who has responsibility
  9. Research Questionnaire - Reducing Patient Falls
  10. To all nurses planning to give the H1N1 vaccine to pregnant women
  11. A question of Trust
  12. Creative Fall Prevention Education Display
  13. Alaris pumps cutting off?
  14. Feeling very incompetent..
  15. Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP)
  16. Find Your Voice: Legislative Conference for Nurses
  17. Transport safety and overhead trapeze use.
  18. In over my head?
  19. Fired by risk management/ disorganized facility
  20. Split Assignment?
  21. 1:22 nurse/patient ratio?
  22. wrong nursing assessment. help!
  23. PCA pump syringe changes
  24. Help me pls...
  25. Overhead Lift Systems!!$$$??
  26. Heparin safety
  27. 13 hour shifts and no break!
  28. Scope of practice for Pharmacy Techs
  29. Moving a Patient Tips
  30. Panicing
  31. Disorganize and unsafe hospital
  32. Radioactive tracer injected without consent
  33. "Star System"
  34. RN refusing MA assignment
  35. Responsibilites regarding reporting colleagues
  36. Help CNA passing meds
  37. IV fluid mishap...worried
  38. Falls & drops in LTC
  39. Need opinions here on safe staffing ratios people!
  40. Giving IVTT meds at once and pt on morphine prec recieving trama
  41. This Doesn't Seem Right--Is It Just Me?
  42. Incident Reports and Staff
  43. Registered Nurse
  44. Transcription Policies
  45. medication labeling
  46. staffing/patient ratios that work
  47. How to prevnt Medication Administration Errors
  48. nonrebreather-how long, and what should be next
  49. Nursing order
  50. who do we report being mandated to?
  51. how can this happen
  52. First Medication Error.....feeling horrible!!
  53. Pressure Ulcers/Wound Care
  54. Does an empty bed justify admission?
  55. How does inadequate staffing relate to patient safety? Any stories?
  56. Death or serious side effects from topical anesthetic
  57. major error in NICU
  58. fellow nurse, small error...what to do?
  59. Thank you..allnurses.com
  60. What if you know a doctor made a mistake?
  61. Advance Directives
  62. Transfusion Administration Assessment
  63. Incident Reports
  64. DNR - outpatient facility
  65. Is This Ethical?
  66. Geri chair....... How safe are they?
  67. My 9 year old patient was raped and required surgery
  68. Mistakes we have made
  69. hospitalists clashing and nurses stuck in the middle
  70. don't want to charge
  71. Where are the nursing protectors?????
  72. Zofran for pregnancy hyperemesis
  73. Can doctors go against hospital policy?
  74. I don't want to be the ONLY nurse in ICU!
  75. Is this the norm in NY
  76. Procedural error- bloodborne exp issue?
  77. wrong injection for the patient
  78. administering corvert
  79. Unit Lock Down
  80. Productivity
  81. Can you give blood and antibiotics both at the same time through a triple lumen cath?
  82. Shift change department transfer errors
  83. CNA scope of practice
  84. nurses writing admission orders
  85. MRIs & Computer charing...HELP?!?
  86. Catheter line safety question
  87. Phenergan & Morphine
  88. Opinions/Advice on how to handle short staffing
  89. Need help with incident reports...Who fills it out???
  90. Looking for basic medical sign language website
  91. Nurse's Discretion Dilemma
  92. HAI-Important Compendium
  93. Pre-filled saline syringes and checking central line blood return
  94. Infection control problems using single use vials?
  95. Threatened to be Fired for "patient safety" issues.
  96. Condition Help/ Rapid Response providers
  97. Hovermatt
  98. Current Psych hospital staffing
  99. What happened to it?
  100. Is this legal?
  101. Doing what's right even if it ends a friendship.
  102. Legal Question
  103. interventions
  104. No hot water or electric for 1 1/2 weeks now
  105. tissue necrosis proximal to a-line
  106. pt fall during shift change
  107. change of shift report in hallway
  108. Im a nurse! Not a doctor!!!
  109. med error
  110. Administering heparin and insulin SQ
  111. LTC Issues and unemployment
  112. microwave on psych unit
  113. LTC patient to nurse ratio
  114. Feel Unsafe
  115. Resistant Strain Bacteria's
  116. when to report to the bne?
  117. tragic accident!!!
  118. Restraints during surgery
  119. Required nurse minimum in night shift PACU Help!!!
  120. help!
  121. Sterile Field Question
  122. Fentanyl and Tramadol
  123. My first medication error-help!
  124. Huge IV med error!
  125. please help me...
  126. BP cuffs and infection control
  127. Are there any medical device trainers out there?
  128. New Nurse Horror Stories
  129. Office/On Call LPN giving orders
  130. Your thoughts on this. . .
  131. Ohio Nurses call for staffing legilslation
  132. Substance Abuse in the Workplace
  133. Need your opinion, please
  134. VAP post Bronchoscopy
  135. Need your input re: fall prevention technology
  136. Fall prevention at your facility
  137. free handwashing poster
  138. Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
  139. Lifting Patients
  140. Question about hip fractures.
  141. New Bill Introduced Re: Vaccines
  142. medication administration
  143. Lifting with family members
  144. STANDARD of CARE
  145. Intolerant of RN errors
  146. Medication Errors
  147. Injection/documentation-- Please Help
  148. new nurse, need advice!!!
  149. Can a patient refuse PART of her medication dose?
  150. Q4 Vss
  151. LTC / SNF /Nursing Home Nightmares: Pls Help!
  152. questioning md orders
  153. Evidence-Based handbook on safety/quality
  154. help cardiac nurses!
  155. Going against the Dr.
  156. I want your staffing horror stories. . .
  157. Report?
  158. How short-staffed is short staffed?????
  159. Can they force me to do it?
  160. new nurse biggest mistakes
  161. Infusion Pump Design
  162. getting rid of an air bubble in an IV line
  163. Above and Beyond Scope
  164. need some advice on CS pt safety & legality issues
  165. Charting question..
  166. inductions
  167. deceased lenght of stay in ER
  168. I need to interview a nurse!! PLEASE HELP!
  169. Quality of Life Issue
  170. IV drip information
  171. using O2 post-op TKR ?
  172. phenergan injection
  173. Syringe Reuse: Patient Safety Threat – Factsheet Feb. 2008
  174. blood sugar monitoring w/o doctor's orders..
  175. Care Delivery Models
  176. question about IV therapy (when tourniquet is forgotten!)
  177. Using Propofol for conscious sedation
  178. RN doing conscious sedation
  179. How UNSAFE Does It Have To Be????
  180. wound charting
  181. Hourly Rounding
  182. Mandatory Overtime
  183. Call-in days
  184. Pediatric Recovery on Peds Floor
  185. iv therapy
  186. moisture issues
  187. Best and Safest site for IM injection? why?
  188. Respiratory Tx inquiry
  189. Are 12 hour shifts safe?
  190. Acceptable questions for nursing students to ask?
  191. Nursing Home regulations State-by-State
  192. nursing ratio between tele and m/s
  193. nursing ratio between tele and m/s
  194. Have you seen this yet?
  195. SCD's
  196. can a nurse be fired for not saying "no"
  197. LTC State Staffing Tables Jan.2008
  198. Legal implications?
  199. conscious sedation
  200. Why are RN-RN relations at work 'bad', but MD-RN ones okay?
  201. Nurse to resident ratios in LTC for Colorado
  202. Pain Medication Inquiry
  203. Arterial lines-kids
  204. Positiong Devices (operating room)
  205. Central Line ocluded or sluggish?
  206. small town/rural patient care
  207. Nuse Tech to RN transition and Orientation
  208. Interactions between warfarin and OTC,herbals, and Nutrition?????
  209. Advice on catheter stabilization devices
  210. Nurse-Patient Ratios
  211. Meeting with Management:Head Injury Patients
  212. nitroglycerin drip
  213. Med Prepouring Question (CNA)
  214. Frustrated Nursing/Patient Ratio!!!
  215. Is this a fair practice??
  216. a med from transfer sheet missed caused injury
  217. Nurses GET OUT AND VOTE
  218. patient positioning
  219. Feeling Unsettled...
  220. consent for surgery - who's job is it
  221. How does an RN file a complaint?
  222. Frustrated w/night shift aides
  223. Nursing as a Science and Religious Consideration in Healthcare
  224. Non-compliant home care patient with stage three decub
  225. No nurses, pt died.
  226. Nurse & patient family conflict
  227. Giving less pain medication b/c of sedation
  228. Question for RNs. . . current nursing problems.
  229. Need Creative Thinker!
  230. Suction Equipment in Resp Arrest
  231. Soiled uniforms
  232. Utilization Review and RNs
  233. Spouses scheduling conflict
  234. Continuous Furosemide Infusion
  235. Nursing strikes
  236. Re-orientation?
  237. Safety concerns for psych ER
  238. labor law and nursing
  239. No nurses on floor during report
  240. nursing interventions of drug seeking behavior
  241. Public Image of Professional Nursing
  242. Unit care models, team nursing, input please!
  243. ECMO in the CVICU
  244. Safe harbour or not
  245. sedation policies vs practice where you are
  246. Help please - Need advice on dealing with Michigan HPRP
  247. blanket/iv fluid warmer
  248. someone please help me
  249. Safe Staffing, long but pls read
  250. Hello