GiniRN

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1. What's in your sharps container?

   GiniRN replied to dontwakeme's topic in General Nursing

   This particular nurse is as new to the hospital as I am to the profession. I am familiar with our policy, and I double checked it after the confrontation. We are allowed by policy to dispose of these medication in the sharps container. This nurse was...

2. What's in your sharps container?

   GiniRN replied to dontwakeme's topic in General Nursing

   I am a fairly new nurse, so it seems I get cornered by know-it-all nurses a lot. I was taught in nursing school (which was recent information) that narcotics should be wasted in the sharps container, not poured into the sink. I recently asked another...