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Something that has helped at the hospital where I work is educating the doctors on hospice. A lot of them just really don't have a clue what hospice truly is or some of them see it as a failure when they refer a patient to hospice which have resulted in late admissions. The hospice dept hosted a series of presentations/seminars/events to help educate them and we are seeing results. At least, with the hospice benefit in Ohio, the family will receive bereavement support for a year following the death of their loved one regardless of how long they were actually admitted to hospice.

Trouble figuring out which eye is which? OS is left eye OD is the right eye You can remember which one is the right eye (OD), because you can make the D into an R - You just have to draw to stick legs on the bottom of the D. Write it down on paper, you'll see what I mean (it's hard to show you when all I can do is type) :)

Learning the Systems of the Body? MR DICE RUNS M - Muscle R - Respiratory D - Digestive I - Integumentary C - Circulatory E - Endocrine R - Reproductive U - Urinary N - Nervous S - Skeletal

When trying to figure out a nursing diagnosis, remember "A Nice Delicious PIE" A - Assessment ND - Nursing diagnosis P - Plan I - Interventions E - Evaluation

It is a new part-time LPN adult evening program that will take about two years to complete. The lab is scheduled twice a week. The enrollment so far is approx. 41 students. The students will be divided into four groups. Each group is allotted 1 hour and five min per class day. The procedures required include everything from giving a bath to placing NG tubes to starting IV's. The program isn't really divided into modules, it's more like "before going to clinicals in the nursing home" and after.

We have a Professional Practice Council, which I sit as Co-Chair. It's the council that edits and reviews policies and procedures using evidenced based practice. It was brought to the council, because we (the nurses) felt we needed a consent due to the fact that it is an invasive procedure. But the hospital attny and the other head honchos said that no, it was covered under the general consent. They said that it fell under the same lines of having, for example, a chest tube placed. It's invasive, but no consent is needed.

We had the same issue at our hospital when we changed radiology groups. Here, the nurses aren't actually the ones who put in the PICC lines, it's the radiologists. We were told that a consent wasn't needed because it was covered under the general consent when the patient is admitted to the hospital.

I'm a new instructor who got put in charge of teaching the lab. I'm very excited about it, but I have no idea as to what I'm doing coordinating/paperwork wise. Looking for any suggestions, ideas, links, etc. Please help!

shawnmed, if you could send me the articles you found too that would be great!!

Hi Donna! My name is Beth. I read this on the forum. I was wondering if you could email the articles that you mailed bobnurse. My hospital wants to do a research study with the positive pressure valves on peripheral lines (we actually have a grant). It would be such a great help. Thank you! Beth