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About ascRN

Work in women's health/ambulatory surgical care

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  1. What is ambulatory care?

    Ambulatory care = all outpatient care where patients are well enough to not need to be inpatients. It's a very broad and vague definition. Ambulatory surgery = what is listed above. Usually takes...
  2. Rules for the ER (long)

    I understand this and it's a two-way street. I think the worst experience I had was a floor nurse who called and complained to my charge nurse and then also called ME back to tell me she had...
  3. Rules for the ER (long)

    I did not read all 84 pages, so I apologize if any of these are repeats. Like all of you I had a love/hate relationship with the ED. 1. Your mom/dad/grandma/grandpa decided to receive only palliative...
  4. While I am all for creating a therapeutic environment, when you come into an inner city ER complaining of HI/SI, your safety and everyone else's comes first. Period. No questions. Of course the order...
  5. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    I commend you TennNurse, I gasped in horror not once, but TWICE while reading
  6. Recovery nurses

    Don't know where all the DRABCD'ers are from. It was new to me as well. I went to school in Virginia and it was just ABCs at the time. edit: in retrospect, it appears you are all from Australia. Must...
  7. BSN to DNP Online Programs

    GWU has
  8. Recovery nurses

    If you have an ACLS book from your last training, go read it and focus especially on the difficult airway/airway maintenance section. Pull out your pharmacology book and flip to anesthetics,...
  9. Great a physician who isn't concerned about the safety of his patient or the other staff/patients. CiWA protocols are wonderful
  10. Yeah, I don't care who you are. You come in with any psych/substance abuse complaint and the very first thing that's happening is you're stripping down to nothing but a hospital gown and your...
  11. Night shifts in the ED. I never personally got hurt but I routinely participated in restraining patients who had injured staff. Usually PCP or some other psych/substance abuse
  12. Pediatric patient- home nurse situations!?

    My best advice (along with most posters it seems) would be to remove yourself from the situation entirely. Your actions have jeopardized your nurse-patient relationship and you risk further potential...
  13. would you even attempt this?

    As long as HR isn't going to come down and spill all your news to your nurse manager (I don't know just HOW small of a hospital it is) then why not? As far as your chances are concerned - if it's your...
  14. would this be a hipaa violation?

    My apologies for misunderstanding the original question. I thought you were talking about a medical resident as in a doctor! Telling anyone, especially another patient about another's treatment is of...
  15. would this be a hipaa violation?

    if both parties are involved in the patient's care and need to share information pertinent to the patient's care, then it's not a HIPAA violation. if patient identifiers are left out and a case is...