Wandering-night BSN

A little about me: I have been a nurse 3.5 years ( 1.5 years as a medsurg/tele RN right out of nursing school, and a little over 2 years as an ICU RN). I currently work at a large comprehensive stroke center, level 2 trauma, and cardiac center. I am ...

Hello, With the case of bladder scan at my hospital we have a standard procedure to straight cath the patient one time after bladder scanning the patient if they have about 500 cc or more in the bladder. If it was a persistent issue and patient ...

Did you do an initial bedside swallow eval? Did the prior nurse tell you about their alertness prior and medication swallowing abilities? Unfortunately sometimes we have to be mean and provide a lot of stimulation to wake people up from a dead sleep ...