We feel the same way on the floor. It is tough to keep upbeat and interested in your job when you don't feel useful. Why have we allowed it to become this way?? Or has it always been the same? Seems ED's are working to much with primary care rath...
It is amazing how differently treatments are "treated" in the different settings i.e. inpt or clinic. I work in a hospital and we don't perform many bx at bedside I think because we are unable to give conscience sedation on the floor. I'd rather my...
We're required to administer the product within 30 minutes but I have never had a problem with returning it to the bank if I ended up not needing it at that time.
Where I practice we never check NG placement. Yet with a dobhoff a KUB is protocol but we still need an order!?! And from my practice, if you place a dobhoff and the KUB shows its not in place leave it! Ultrasound will not place it unless it has b...
We use automatic cuffs even with platelets below 20. Perhaps that facility has had a problem in the past. A lawsuit usually leads to change in practice.
I don't see many power ports but I find the double ports quite useful for the patient needing chemo, IVF, ABX, transfusion. Or for the patient needing pain meds every 2-3 hours during an infusion!