Mgrn
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No, she was told she did not have to do her own assessment
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No I'm a RN, but I have worked with many LPNs and they did their own assessments as well
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Yes, I'm a RN. Are you? Do you do your own assessments? The issue here is that this was not my patient, and the nurse this patient was assigned to was basically told she did not have to do an assessment.
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I'm a float nurse and about a month ago, I was told by the supervisor to do the admission assessment on a unit for the nurse. I relayed to the primary nurse that I would go over everything with the patient as far as questions, but would leave the physical assessment for her to do. I was then told by the supervisor that I should do everything, including the physical assessment just relay my findings to the patient's nurse and that she did not have to document anything. I feel like this is in violation of nursing ethics, and want to know how others feel.