sisterfaye

:) Point taken, smilingblueeyes. :)

oh for goodness sake! no-one is asking you to be a super human. and since when is fast food served in hospitals? certainly not where i work. the issue here is nurses who smoke and then breath it all over patients. hardly the same as big mac breath. we are talking about chemicals with a direct link to cancer. as i said when i started this thread, i don't object to anyone's right to smoke appropriately. what concerns me is that patients are frequently (and unwillingly) exposed to cigarette smoke which further endangers their health. and yes i believe a nurse who smokes at work is a hypocrit.

HERE HERE!!!!!! My thoughts exactly. What hypocrits those nurses are.

Thankyou for your honesty! It is heartening to receive so many replies, especially from smokers who also agree. Perhaps (I hope) one day smoking will be outlawed in the workplace altogether. :)

:angryfire Is there anyone out there who agrees with me? I work on a ward where we frequently provide palliative care for patients with cancer (amongst other things). I cannot stress how much it infuriates me when nurses who are smokers go into a dying cancer patient's room stinking of cigarette smoke. In my opinion this is so morally and ethically wrong that I took my concerns to our unit manager after a patient's family made a complaint to me about another nurse. Unfortunately the NUM also smokes like a chimney and bla bla bla bla nothing was done. Now that I have unloaded I feel more able to look at the situation objectively and decide on a course of action through appropriate channels. I would welcome any and all opinions on smoking in the workplace. (Please let it be known that I do not object to any person's right to smoke off the ward if they wish, only in the circumstances descibed above).

Please help me! My palliative patient was written up for a continuous subcut infusion of morph 30mg/midaz 20mg/maxalon 40mg. The order stated that this was to be infused over 12 hours. As this was for a palliative patient and therefore a continuous order, I doubled the amounts and infused over 24 hours. Thus, the patient received the correct amount over the correct timeframe. However, a colleague suggested to me that I should have had the order changed to twice the original amount with orders to infuse over 24 hours. To me this seems really podantic as I believe I have followed the order to the letter by delivering the correct amount over the correct timeframe, and I had rightly taken into account that the order was continuous. Please tell me what you think!!