Colleen

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1. Blood Transfusions

   Colleen replied to dbauer's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a 36 bed Surgical Unit. Our current blood transfusion policy states that 2 nurses check the blood at the patient's bedside prior to administration. Observations (TPR & BP) are taken 15 minutely for the first hour and then hourly.

2. Doctors! Rudeness does it go hand and hand?

   Colleen replied to dinirn's topic in Relations

   Many is the time when Doctors have been rude or impolite. I took it for a while, but now if I find a Doctor's behaviour or attitude objectionable, I simply inform them that it is not acceptable. If they continue with the same, I write a formal compla...