CrispRN

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1. How to file a complaint against Charge Nurse?

   CrispRN replied to BerryHappy's topic in General Nursing

   Check with you HR Department or if your facility is large enough, your compliance department. At our facility it is an 800 number. Just as the previous writer wrote, remain anonymous because alot of these folks talk regularly. You can choose to re...

2. How to file a complaint against Charge Nurse?

   CrispRN replied to BerryHappy's topic in General Nursing

   Does your facility have a compliance line? That is always a good place to start when you want to remain anonymous, but want to insure that the complaint is dealth with and gets into the hands of the right people.

3. Cardiac Sheaths

   CrispRN replied to debthern's topic in Cardiac

   I work in a CCL and we typically pull sheaths on our patients prior to them going to the telemetry floor or back to an outpatient area. Thankfully, the majority of our cardiologists use closure devices such as PerClose, Angioseal or StarClose. Just...

4. Litigious Areas of Nursing and the Nurse's Liability

   CrispRN replied to sirI's topic in General Nursing

   I think this is an excellent blog. Too many of our peers are caught up in "just doing their job" that they forget the legal ramifications of "just doing their job." I work in a cardiac cath lab and currently am dealing with having our nursing assi...