We have to have an anesthesia note signed before our patients can be discharged but it has nothing to do with our practice it is because if it is not signed medicare will not pay
We have an interesting call situation during the week in that we are on call Mon-Fri for the full week, we get paid for 40 hours and work in the unit 2 6 hour shifts during the day and then are on call at night, we also have a night shift Mon-Thurs s...
guess I am a little confused about the no verbal/telephone orders...is the doctor supposed to get up in the middle of the night and drive to the hospital to write an order? You would have alot of people needed meds cause I can tell you the docs I wor...
All of our drugs are ordered based on patient weight not age but if you are taking a phone order you should know what the safe dose is...We don't take verbal orders but we do take phone orders but need another nurse to verify what the doctor said if ...
we are assigned 2 nurses for each 3 slots we alternate who gets a pt and example is nurse a and b are in slot 1,2,3 nurse a gets slot 1 and nurse b slot 3 nurse a gets a pt and they both get the patient settled, then nurse b will get one which they b...
Our pediatric PACU was informed that we would begin pulling sheaths at the bedside and no longer in the Cath lab is this appropriate? Is it done in other hospitals? Are the patients still sedated as ours will not be? HELP!!!
we have cna's who transport all patients if they are not on a monitor, do not have an epidural or a chest tube...of course the nurse transport the icu patients