DorselFin

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1. Practicing Out of Scope

   DorselFin replied to DorselFin's topic in Safety

   Klone, No, for any infant that has MEc at rupture. They do no visulization of the cords. they dry ans stimulate before checking to see if there is any mec in the airway, at all. I have only ever been taught that NICU or RN/RT at delivery so that if t...

2. Practicing Out of Scope

   DorselFin replied to DorselFin's topic in Safety

   There is no manager at this time. She was removed due to her own poor nursing capabilities. ANd this has been going on far longer than I have been there. No one has ever said anything, they just went with the flow.

3. Practicing Out of Scope

   DorselFin replied to DorselFin's topic in Safety

   I know!!! I just couldn't believe it!!! And its not that they are being bullied into it, its just that they truly did not know any different. There are so many things that are unsafe here. Beyond the out of scope, how about they use a delee suction t...

4. Practicing Out of Scope

   DorselFin replied to DorselFin's topic in Safety

   Thats what I told all of the staff! The first thing they will say when something goes wrong is well I didn't set the pump! I refused to back down and refused to set the thing. I still refuse and the girls on the unit are now starting to follow my lea...

5. Practicing Out of Scope

   DorselFin replied to DorselFin's topic in Safety

   LOL, I did all of the above the second the Doc literally threw a fit in the room when I asked her to set the pump. It has started a large uproar among everyone.

6. Practicing Out of Scope

   DorselFin replied to DorselFin's topic in Safety

   The state board states that it is not in our scope for an OB patient. We have the orders much like a PCA, and here it is widely accepted as common practice. But common practice is not always correct. IN this case, the advisory opinion states that unl...

7. Question for the L&D nurses

   DorselFin replied to Java_Wench's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I never really had a problem with this except for Peds. I will say that after 6 yrs in L&D that its not as hard for me to deal with the demise pts, but I never had an issue with the preterm babies. If it is deliver or mom dies, then deliver. Its ...

8. Practicing Out of Scope

   DorselFin replied to DorselFin's topic in Safety

   The nurses are setting up, initiating, and connecting epidural pumps in OB patients. The board states in the Advisory opinion that to do this with an OB Pt the RN must be a licensed Independent Practitioner or CRNA. I have spoken to the sister facili...

9. Practicing Out of Scope

   DorselFin posted a topic in Safety

   I am currently on assignment with a travel company at a facility located in Az. If any Az nurses can chime in here I wold appreciate it. I want to make a complaint about nurses (more than one) practicing out of their scope. However, I'm not sure how ...