wickeddiazrn

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  1. JCAHO, how you annoy me.

    The people on here who are complaining about the JC I believe have issues with how their administration is handling the visit. Patient safety is a huge issue. Keeping our care driven by EBP and not just random ideas is so Important. In my 20 years of...
  2. A question about "negotiating"

    You can negotiate, but in today's current market you may loose some of the assignments. I always worked with 10 or so agencies and then picked the one that was offering the better package. You should also take into consideration how floating happens ...
  3. Texting while doing patient care?

    It does not matter what her role or title is. She could have been a family member or a visitor. No photos should ever be taken especially without consent. The only exception to this is for would care progress documentation, or education if you have t...
  4. Texting while doing patient care?

    You can so long as you do not release patient information. I have nurses text me to please come to the floor they have a question about something, or my director will text me if I am out rounding as opposed to paging overhead. But yes patient protect...
  5. Texting while doing patient care?

    That is completely unprofessional, and I am sure taking pictures is against P & P, not to mention she just opened a potential HIPPA violation. I believe that smartphones have a place while practicing nursing, but it must be done in a professiona...
  6. Nursing is very important, but we are part of a team, part of a bigger picture. I love being a nurse and very proud of what I do. The fact is that we are part of a team, but unfortunately many hospitals fail to promote teamwork. Each department const...
  7. So you believe the hospital runs only on nursing power? Many other department support nurses and allow us to perform our jobs. Without all parts of the hospital we could not care for our patients. We do not work in a black hole. Try to run a hospita...
  8. Your thoughts on being "written up".

    I agree. Never sign something that you do not agree with. In addition, I would check your facilities P & P or your HR rules and regs on what your signature on a discipline action infers. Do not just relay on what your manger, director, or the HR ...
  9. This is a great place to post this. I am a Quality Risk Manager and sorta new at the position. I have always been involved in policy and procedures, best practice, and patient safety, so some of the things that I am doing stayed the same. Something n...
  10. Core Measures

    Are you using Clinical Practice Guidelines to drive your measures? These would assist you with your measures. We have a EBP coordinator that monitors these on all the patient's but the bedside RN's are expected to monitor and keep the information str...
  11. Please do not judge all administration by a few bad examples. I would hope someone would not judge nursing based off of a few bad nurses. Hospitals are kept going by all departments, not just nursing. Nursing just happens to be the largest work forc...
  12. Your thoughts on being "written up".

    This is frustrating. I have recently accepted a position as a risk manager at my facility. First thing, if these are being "written up" in an actually reporting format that your facility uses to track and monitor trends etc, that information is very ...
  13. Do you wear rings?

    Leave it at home. Safest thing. If you do wear it what ever you do, do not pin it to your uniform. That is the best way for it to get lost. Do not forget that if it is raised up much at all you can scratch your patients skin even through gloves. Espe...
  14. To cover break and meals many California hospitals have a "float" or "cover" nurse that is qualified to cover the patients and they work a full 12 hrs shift. In addition, many of the Charge RN's cover for break and meals too. California while having ...