radiann

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1. Artificial fingernails

   radiann replied to jeanrnurse's topic in Safety

   Our facility has indeed changed its policy to prohibit long and artificial nails. The drive was not only the potential for transfer of nosocomial infection, but also increased risk of blood borne pathogen exposure. We had a case where due to long nai...

2. Drug errors

   radiann replied to chrisgidney's topic in Safety

   I must agree with Molly that we in nursing need to look at the system breakdowns that allow errors to happen rather than the individual in a punitive way. No one is making malicious drug errors and if we track it must be in order to identify where an...

3. Hospcie Certification

   radiann replied to Glenda Jenkins's topic in Hospice

   We had JACHO just a few months ago and the question of hospice certification came up. Their response was that cert in this feild was infrequent, out of favor with the powers that be, and not to bother. For what it is worth, that effectively ended our...