Simple things new nurses or experiece nurses are not doing?

[RN28MD]

:confused:new nurse has a post op patient who is running a fever, she/he gives patient tylenol for it. But experience nurses say a blood culture should be drawn. Why are the new nurses not doing this. Does this happen at your hospital that new nurse are forgetting to do. But not only new nurses I have seen this happening with experience nurses too.

[GatorNurse10]

Thanks for starting this topic! It is a great list and good reminder for what needs to be done every shift. I too find that on a good day I can cover these basics.. On a bad day all I can get done is meds & assessments. Luckily on my unit the techs are wonderful and really help keep up with the I&O. I do find that getting pts moving and out of bed is difficult as we don't have the staffing needed to help some of the pts that are more unsteady.