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  1. Surgery patients brought in too soon before their surgery

    eernuts posted a topic in General Nursing

    We have a problem with surgeons bringing all of their patients into outpatient waiting all at the same time even though they may not be scheduled until hours later. They do this so they can continue...

  2. Phlebotomy thru port?

    eernuts replied to rusty55's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    In my institution, the lab does the therapeutic phlebotomy and my nurses who work in pre-admission testing (of all places) monitor the patient. I want my PAT nurses doing PAT work. Forgive my...

  3. Assistant nurse manager vs. charge nurse

    eernuts posted a topic in General Nursing

    Do you have both charge nurses and assistant nurse managers in your nursing

  4. Assistant nurse manager vs. charge nurse

    eernuts replied to eernuts's topic in General Nursing

    It does seem excessive. What have you seen more of? Charge nurses or Assistant Nurse

  5. Abuse against nurses

    eernuts posted a topic in General Nursing

    We are trying to write a policy about patient/family or others abuse/violence against nurses. We have a policy but we don't have an official procedure (step #1, Step #2 etc...). Once we have talked...

  6. Supervisors unappreciated

    eernuts replied to hollydoll's topic in General Nursing

    All, The supervisor job is the toughest in the house. Where I work, the supervisor is compensated at the same rate a nurse manager is. My problem is I'm having a tough time attracting people to...

  7. nursing supervisors all shifts?

    eernuts replied to trixie's topic in Nurse Management

    Thanks to all for your responses. We have selected a bed flow coordinator (he was formerly a house supervisor). He will decide what patient gets what bed and expedite transfers and discharges. We are...

  8. starting a new inpatient dialysis unit

    eernuts posted a topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    We have used two different companies to do our inpatient dialysis and neither one has been satisfactory. We have done a cost and quality analysis and have decided we would like to start our own...

  9. starting a new inpatient dialysis unit

    eernuts replied to eernuts's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thanks for the tips! We haven't decided on equipment yet, I have quotes and we are going to evaluate. Do you know what is most commonly used? We are in

  10. nursing supervisors all shifts?

    eernuts replied to trixie's topic in Nurse Management

    We currently have a nurse supervisor for all shifts. What we are going to try is making the day supervisor become a bed flow coordinator (they do nothing but work on patient flow and bed...