Does each unit have a procedural manual

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  • Specializes in Pulmonary med/surg/telemetry. Has 1 1/2 years experience.

I just finished my first week of hospital clinicals and I'm just trying to get an idea of how things work. I spent most of the time asking a million questions trying to figure everything out and I know that's part of learning, but I just wondered if there was an easier way for me to learn without taking up all of the RN's time. Does each unit in a hospital have a manual that explains how things are handled, policies and procedures about different things, etc? In my textbooks a lot of things say something like "learn your facility's policy about..."

If these do exist what are they called and where would I look for it?

Thanks.

debthern

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Specializes in NICU, PACU, Pediatrics. Has 16 years experience.

our hospital has all the manuals on the intranet it's under Policy and Procedures. Good luck

Has 5 years experience.

ours has multiple long winded documents

NeoNurseTX, RN

1,803 Posts

Specializes in NICU Level III.

policy and procedure manual and they can either be online or located at the nursing station.

all units should also have a msds manual and ..crash cart!

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