Have you ever noticed ...

[VioletX]

I was just curious if any other nursing students have noticed this ...

Working on the floor I have noticed throughout all my clinicals and also my preceptorship that ALOT of nurses don't perform assessments. I've also noticed that many nurses don't even bring stethoscopes to work to assess breath sounds, bowel sounds, etc.

Has anyone else noticed this?

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

When i've seen this happen, it's been a new admission, and the nurse was putting the unperformed assessment in the computer. For example, clicked "lungs sounds clear A and P". Well you never even TOUCHED the stethoscope, how do you know they're clear A and P???

[unknown99, BSN, RN]

At the hospital where I work, your stethescope is part of your uniform. If you do not have it, then you are considered out of uniform. You can get a verbal, then written if it happens again. If it has happened too many times then you get suspended, more times you get terminated.

Some think this is very harsh, but it does work!!