bugjuice90

I like to use a little "unsolicited info" at times like this. When a man yelled at me for keeping his wife in a semiprivate room though he had requested a private room (we did not have any available.) I smiled sweetly at him and mentioned that as soon as one of the "infectious patients" went home or expired I would be glad to move his wife. He was horrified and wanted to know how we cleaned such rooms. I said " oh, the same way we clean all the rooms, sir." I left him pondering that statement. Of course we really do a special cleaning on those rooms but I probably wasn't aware of that fact. I felt mean later but he had harrassed a young girl (new CNA) into crying just before this exchange and I got angry with him.

If you change anything in the assessment, use a black marker and cross the old finding out or otherwise obscure it so you can't see it. Other nurses have no right to make you feel badly for your methods. Sounds to me like you are resourceful and have found a way that saves time that you can spend on more important things. When a nurse told me recently that she would have done something differently, I smiled sweetly and said "well, now you have your chance. It's your shift now."