cmbuckley replied to threeholepunch's topic in ADN/BSN
We as Nurses are human beings and not machines. Nursing is a 24/4/365 job. Do you assessment.....document it..........nursing care document it......... Prioritise and whats not done can and must be left to the next shift....... Management will soon r...
Run away you are going to be falsifying MEDICAL RECORDS that could one day end up in a Court of Law. I`m sure that`s a Felony and it`s definetly Morally Wrong.
Why are people going to the ED with Flu like symptons? Unless you fall in to a specific group ( 65 years of age, pregnant or have a comorbidity stay home nothing to be done. All that is happening is people with other emergencies such as broken bones/...
cmbuckley replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency
Open plan ED`S so that the patients (ESI 3,4 + 5) can see the (ESI 1 + 2) patients. Have seen it work many times when there are multiple trauma`s from 1 incident so it spills out on to the main ED (Trauma Rooms full) these patients with non acute/n...
cmbuckley replied to Whts_Ur_Emergency?'s topic in Emergency
You are a Registered Nurse not a transporter. If all your peers agreed to not transport and wait for the transport person there would be delays all the time and management would have to address the transportation issue and not have RN`S doing ancilla...
Though this may seem like a simple matter it is actually a complicated one and one of the reasons there is QA, PRI, D/C Planning,Case Managers, whole teams ( Social Workers, OT`S, PT`S, RN`S) involved in a patient`s care. This one fell through the cr...
cmbuckley replied to modernhippie_'s topic in Critical
Recently worked in an ED where telephone orders were taken by the ED RN for newly admitted patients. Such abuse I have never seen 3 pages worth which included all tests for the duration of the patients stay. All medications irregardless of when they ...