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1. What is ambulatory care?

   ascRN replied to Avocadoloveer's topic in General Nursing

   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 place in an outpatient clinic or ambulatory surgical c...

2. Rules for the ER (long)

   ascRN replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

   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 complained to my charge nurse. Her complaint: My patient wa...

3. Rules for the ER (long)

   ascRN replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

   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 treatment for a reason. No one forced them into ho...

4. What's the most dangerous thing that's happened to you while working?

   ascRN replied to Aly529's topic in General Nursing

   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 of my actions will reflect exactly what a patient ...

5. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   ascRN replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   I commend you TennNurse, I gasped in horror not once, but TWICE while reading this.

6. Recovery nurses

   ascRN replied to brisbanebound's topic in General Nursing

   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 be a difference between the AHA and whatever your ...

7. BSN to DNP Online Programs

   ascRN replied to Heatha02's topic in Online Learning

   GWU has one.

8. Recovery nurses

   ascRN replied to brisbanebound's topic in General Nursing

   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, paralytics, sedatives, and hypnotics. You will want to be i...

9. What's the most dangerous thing that's happened to you while working?

   ascRN replied to Aly529's topic in General Nursing

   Great a physician who isn't concerned about the safety of his patient or the other staff/patients. CiWA protocols are wonderful things.

10. What's the most dangerous thing that's happened to you while working?

    ascRN replied to Aly529's topic in General Nursing

    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 belongings are going in the locker while psych evaluates y...

11. What's the most dangerous thing that's happened to you while working?

    ascRN replied to Aly529's topic in General Nursing

    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 thing.

12. Pediatric patient- home nurse situations!?

    ascRN replied to MomLPN4's topic in Private Duty

    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 litigation by remaining involved either as the chi...

13. would you even attempt this?

    ascRN replied to SrnD's topic in General Nursing

    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 first 4 months on any floor with no critical care...

14. would this be a hipaa violation?

    ascRN replied to purse's topic in General Nursing

    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 course a violation of HIPAA. I'm surprised your co...

15. would this be a hipaa violation?

    ascRN replied to purse's topic in General Nursing

    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 simply described in the context of the resident's act...