Death at Work

Not to hijack your thread, just wondering if nurses, can pronounce natural death in your state, as we can in Texas, including acute care, hospice, home health, and LTC.....?

Not to hijack your thread, just wondering if nurses, can pronounce natural death in your state, as we can in Texas, including acute care, hospice, home health, and LTC.....?

Are you talking about humans or copy machines??

Humans, as you and me, Dr. Fever

I think you got this one wrong Davey Do, it is usually staff running around like chickens with their heads chopped off while admin are the ones "playing" dead so they don't have to help.

Or, I could be wrong, staff could be dropping dead from complete exhaustion!

Not to hijack your thread, just wondering if nurses, can pronounce natural death in your state, as we can in Texas, including acute care, hospice, home health, and LTC.....?

I live and work in the good ol state of Illinoid too. At my facility two nurses can pronounce per hospital protocol. We have to call the doc, coroner, gift of hope, etc too. The attending signs the death certificate.

Since I work at a teaching hospital, I think the protocol was developed because often residents didn't always act therapeutically to the family at the bedside. (Not intentionally, they just hadn't developed that skill set yet) Some would just come in and listen to the patient and then walk out of the room. Never saying anything to the family at the bedside leaving them to just wonder...

Not to hijack your thread, just wondering if nurses, can pronounce natural death in your state, as we can in Texas, including acute care, hospice, home health, and LTC.....?

In Nevada, yes. I had to do it once when the doctor didn't want to come in on a Sunday morning just for that.