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Exactly. It sparked enough curiosity to cause her to start a thread. It might have been something about the way the nurse recieving the report made her request... her tone or whatever.

You made a great point!

Initially most nursing schools DO require their students to do the work an aide normally would. I'm speaking of during their clinical rotation.s The first six weeks of clinicals nursing students...

Thanks! It worked. :)

Thanks. I actually refreshed the page and I see the "post reply" tab now. I still don't see the "QUOTE" tab.

Also I don't see a "post reply" tab. I'm only given the option of posting a quick reply.

On my screen is doesn't have the blue tab with "quote" written in the center anywhere on the screen or in the individual boxes with posts.

This is one of those situations that has a lot of politics and other issues tied into it. I see both sides. Surgery is an extrememly scary thing for most people. We don't know all the intimate...

Sorry, I don't know if this is the right place to be posting this, but I have a question about responding to posts. To quote a statement made by another poster, I figured that I hit the icon with...

" It might prevent the nurse from questioning orders for higher or lower-than-usual dosages of certain medications though, don't you think?" True.

" It might prevent the nurse from questioning orders for higher or lower-than-usual dosages of certain medications though, don't you think?" True.

Trust me, we pick up those skills quickly. At least I had to. Your unit won't run if you can't guide the staff. Especially for those evening and night shifts when a DON/ADON aren't readily...

Thanks for the advice. I think I will be better prepared next time such a situation arises.

"What I meant was that nurses learn nursing. They don't learn leadership or managerial skills." I have to disagree with this statement. Nurses are taught about delegation, different...

I won't go into all the details of what happened to me today. I'm just getting off my shift and wanted to vent. The jist of it is I had a negative exchange with my supervior today. I questioned why...

If this was a patient being transferred from your unit to another, asking for the race of the client seems legitimate. Some nurses just like to be thorough when giving or recieving report. ...