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If a patient is seeking care under my name then that is not protected, they are in the act of committing a crime, and it potentially harms their care rather than protecting it. If they commit acts...

I don't think I said I would ignore it.

Yes. I can report information that is mine, including that my Number is being used, but not the patient's information

SSI fraud, which includes identity theft as well as a long list of other acts is illegal, yet that doesn't mean it's an exception to Nurse-patient confidentiality. There are exceptions, but unless...

Carl Spackler

Not really, ethics are pretty universal. Just as with Nurse-Patient confidentiality, the severity of different situations will vary widely, that doesn't mean the expectation to follow those ethics...

That was actually the diplomatic, highly edited, grinning-through-clenched-teeth response. There's a natural desire to drastically alter standards and laws when something affects you rather than...

We triage down to the floors to start with, then go on "divert". In the rare instances we go on divert ICU level admits get flown anywhere from 40 to 300 miles away.

It's important to remember that when a parent shares something on facebook about their kid, the parent is sharing that information. When a Nurse links to information about that kid on their facebook...

Mulan, I realize it can be frustrating but it's part of our Code of Ethics, it's actually common to many Health Care professions' code of ethics including Doctors, Psychiatrists, and others. The...

It's usually considered poor form to take advantage of the relationship you develop with a patient to report them to authorities. If a patient confided in you that they smoke pot, would you then...

The importance of pushing meds during a code in a timely manner is why we have ACLS protocols. If your facility recognizes ACLS protocols as standing protocols then that's your MD order, no MD...

Unless the patient has been deemed incompetent to make their own medical decisions, and the family member has as well, the patient isn't required to follow any orders. If the patient's refusal to...

Definitions vary somewhat state-to-state, but in my state that's considered abandonment.

There are no studies or evidence to support this. The INS recommends new tubing, I can't remember if they recommend changing bags as well, I'd refer you to their standards but for some reason they...

There's no rate that totally prevents fluid overload, the slower it's infused the more chance the kidneys get to excrete the fluid that the RBC's pull in from outside of the vascular system. We...

If each vial lists the correct amount of medication powder, then reconstitute the first 3 vials and add up the amount of medication listed on the labels of each, the final volume of fluid of the...

When you sign for delivery of narcotics you are signing that the numbers match what's being delivered, I guess I'm not sure what you were expecting would happen.

The amount of time it takes a BG to get back to normal depends on the underlying cause. In a non-diabetic who is not receiving insulin, common causes include metabolic 'derangement' secondary to...

I'd agree that sometimes patients have other options, but do you really think that's always the case? Very few things are actually a necessity, being able to communicate with family when ill,...

salary.com is pretty good source for current pay info. According to them, about $27 an hour is the starting rate in Chicago, which doesn't include healthcare deductions, figure a few dollars less...

I'm sure. When I try to call a patient's family I have to go through the operator, they always ask if I am "medical staff" and they then remind me that I can only make long distance calls to get...

It's always interesting to see how much standards have changed over just a short period of time. The year 2000 AACN criteria for a 1:1 is now what you need just to be considered an ICU patient, and...

I think in the case of elective surgery patients it's reasonable to assume that they'll probably have a cell phone and charger. But most of my patients weren't even conscious when they left the...

My hospital gets about a quarter of our patients from areas that are considered long distance calls from the hospital. My hospital does not allow patients to use their bedside phones to call long...