I am the charge nurse of a 30 bed medical/surgical/ palliative care unit. We presently have a charge nurse on days only,7-3. our evening in charge is on maternity leave, when she returns we will be...
we run our platelets through a standard blood filter wide open and we do our vitals before half way through and at the end of the infusion. Our blood is run through the standard filter and on a pump...
This made me think of my first death I experienced at the hospital I had just started at. I had only been there a few weeks when one of my pt's died, they were a no code, and had a terminal illness,...