Nishstar1

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  1. Policy contradicts State Law

    I do feel like I made the right choice. During my time there, I had documented and time stamped my actions and the responses. I filed them in a binder along with a print out of the state law. I...
  2. Policy contradicts State Law

    I'll work on that right now. It is extremely difficult to get through to someone in the state BON, but I'll start with the medical board. Thank
  3. Policy contradicts State Law

    True. Also, would like to add this is an outpatient ASC with no anesthesiologist on site for conscious sedation and likely not within a 5 mile radius (they leave after mac sedation cases are over)....
  4. Policy contradicts State Law

    Thank you all for responding and supporting my stance. I've been a nurse for one year and the nurses I work with have been working in ICU and ER For over ten years, but I've been taught to go with my...
  5. Policy contradicts State Law

    I've resisted into going in while this is happening and told her I'll stay out in pre/PACU. The day of, she tells me that I am to relieve her for breaks because there isn't nobody else. Since when...
  6. "It looked different on the
  7. Good afternoon, I need to know what to do when state law contradicts a policy in a facility. This is related to conscious sedation where state law says that an RN cannot be performing any other tasks...
  8. DIRECTOR OF NURSING

    I agree with a lot of your points. A littleore background to this is that I came in as DON and there were two RN's who were really great but they had gotten burnt out and had quit one week before I...
  9. DIRECTOR OF NURSING

    Rose Queen : I read your message and have been trying to absorb/back track on things I have missed. Another factor is that they are so young and haven't developed the ability or realize the...
  10. DIRECTOR OF NURSING

    I'm not sure, and I didn't identify a problem because I regularly interact and communicate with staff (almost daily). It so happened one day that one nurses started venting to me after she couldn't...
  11. DIRECTOR OF NURSING

    I would like advice on how to handle sabotage from staff nurses and technicians. As Director of Nursing within an ambulatory surgery center with an upcoming Joint Commission inspection, there is an...