karenbear

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1. pregnancy question

   karenbear replied to bdbrdb's topic in General Nursing

   I worked in the ICU float pool while I was pregnant with my first. I signed up for FMLA pretty much as soon as I found out. That was I could call in sick if I needed to and the facility couldn't hold it against me. That being said, I did not use it a...

2. Question about student nurses working at your facility

   karenbear replied to karenbear's topic in General Nursing

   According to what I've been able to decipher from the legal speak that is our nurse practice act, a student nurse is held to the same standards of care as any other licensed person. The critical part if the equation is in the delegation of tasks. Th...

3. Question about student nurses working at your facility

   karenbear replied to karenbear's topic in General Nursing

   I understand the need to learn and want to facilitate that as much as possible, but I also want to make sure the hospital is protected from a legal stand-point. I've been doing some researching on the BON site but haven't found a lot of specifics ye...

4. Question about student nurses working at your facility

   karenbear posted a topic in General Nursing

   I just started working with Information Services at my hospital. We've been using computer charting for most units and will be going live for the rest in a few weeks. We have just (in the past 6 months) moved to a scan medication/patient/nurse syst...

5. First aid supplies & meds checklist

   karenbear replied to nurse_wannabe's topic in Camp

   We use coin envelopes for passing meds and it has worked well for us for the past few summers. The outside of the envelope is labeled with the campers name, cabin number, counselor name and medications that are in the envelope (we use a different en...