Here's one of the DON's shenanigans: one of the other nurses was telling me about it - they had a patient who had very UNSTABLE blood sugar - there was an order for insulin at "X" time (say, 8pm).
The nurse did a fingerstick on her and her blood sugar was way low - something like 45! So naturally, she held the insulin.....
...would you believe....the DON got onto her the next day - she told her she was "working OUTSIDE OF HER PRACTICE" by withholding the insulin (it was routine not prn), and that she was supposed "to follow doctor's orders!"
Yuk Yuk
The nurse telling ME about it was flabbergasted. So was I...I said, "You're NOT working outside of the scope of your practice when you protect a patient!"
HELLO
Nurses are not friggin' ROBOTS! We're supposed to use some nursing judgement when called for and that's what she was doing.
