pts going out to smoke

[crissrn27]

Hi guys, I've been meaning to ask you this for a while. In other threads I often see some of you refer to your moms going out for a smoke. Does most everyones hospital allow this? None of our docs will write an order for

mom to go out, so it would be AMA in any case, but our staff will not let anyone leave the floor. I have literally seen a couple of people throw their selves in front of the elevators to prevent a mom from going down:uhoh3: I'm sorry, I'm not gonna do that. I don't have to like that they want to go down to smoke, but it is their choice right? Couldn't it be said that we are imprisoning them? What are your thoughts on this?

[crissrn27, RN]

something to think about, we will be going smoke free as of 2008 I hear, we will see.