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1. Surgery patients brought in too soon before their surgery

   eernuts posted a topic in General Nursing

   We have a problem with surgeons bringing all of their patients into outpatient waiting all at the same time even though they may not be scheduled until hours later. They do this so they can continue to work if a patient cancels. I understand why but...

2. Phlebotomy thru port?

   eernuts replied to rusty55's topic in Infusion

   In my institution, the lab does the therapeutic phlebotomy and my nurses who work in pre-admission testing (of all places) monitor the patient. I want my PAT nurses doing PAT work. Forgive my ignorance, but does a nurse have to be present for thera...

3. Assistant nurse manager vs. charge nurse

   eernuts replied to eernuts's topic in General Nursing

   It does seem excessive. What have you seen more of? Charge nurses or Assistant Nurse Managers?

4. Assistant nurse manager vs. charge nurse

   eernuts posted a topic in General Nursing

   Do you have both charge nurses and assistant nurse managers in your nursing unit?

5. Abuse against nurses

   eernuts posted a topic in General Nursing

   We are trying to write a policy about patient/family or others abuse/violence against nurses. We have a policy but we don't have an official procedure (step #1, Step #2 etc...). Once we have talked to the aggressor and it doesn't get better, we ad...

6. Supervisors unappreciated

   eernuts replied to hollydoll's topic in General Nursing

   All, The supervisor job is the toughest in the house. Where I work, the supervisor is compensated at the same rate a nurse manager is. My problem is I'm having a tough time attracting people to the supervisor position because of the hours. ...

7. nursing supervisors all shifts?

   eernuts replied to trixie's topic in Management

   Thanks to all for your responses. We have selected a bed flow coordinator (he was formerly a house supervisor). He will decide what patient gets what bed and expedite transfers and discharges. We are still trying to decide between a staffing clerk o...

8. starting a new inpatient dialysis unit

   eernuts replied to eernuts's topic in Urology

   Thanks for the tips! We haven't decided on equipment yet, I have quotes and we are going to evaluate. Do you know what is most commonly used? We are in Huntington.

9. starting a new inpatient dialysis unit

   eernuts posted a topic in Urology

   We have used two different companies to do our inpatient dialysis and neither one has been satisfactory. We have done a cost and quality analysis and have decided we would like to start our own inpatient dialysis. We are researching every avenue on ...

10. nursing supervisors all shifts?

    eernuts replied to trixie's topic in Management

    We currently have a nurse supervisor for all shifts. What we are going to try is making the day supervisor become a bed flow coordinator (they do nothing but work on patient flow and bed management)and add a staffing clerk to work on the staffing is...