Simple things new nurses or experiece nurses are not doing?

how do you guys address constipation?
given the amt of narcs most of these pts are on, do you give anything to prevent it?
or ask pt if they have gone?

leslie

But that is what orientation is for. A time to learn the unit and it's habits. We routinely demonstrate to new hires how to do I/Os, clear an IVAC, mark an NG, read the measure of a chest tube. We stand there and ask the patients about bladder and bowel with the new hires and students right by us. They KNOW we ask these questions and when they come back to work on their own it's totally out of the window for some of them. I've lost track of the times patients have told me "it's only you older nurses that ask about my bowel and bladder"

Most fevers for postops are related to pulmonary, not infection.

I&O's are never accurate

and most nurses don't worry about clearing pumps for IV's

Really? So if there's a fever and it's pulmonary-related, what else do we look for? And what gets done usually for this?



Yeah, even as a student I had problems getting answers for how are accurate I & O's collected? My instructors had a difficult time with this one as it seems with various folks collecting food trays and water mugs being filled at various times, who knows who/when these are documented?



"Clearing" pumps? As in -- when? This might be a terminology thing, so pardon me if I'm sounding ignorant. I am just getting ready to hit the floor for graduate nurse training, so any and all help is appreciated!!