Appreciate all the feedback. It's not just "corporate" telling us to do this. It is coming from RN managers and director of nursing also. We now have a "guideline" that has a lot of procedures, and...
Thanks for the input. We are currently asking patient's their understanding of the procedure and some nurses thought that is what they were suppose to write on the layman terms section of the...
Is anyone at a facility that uses "layman" terms on surgical consents? Recently, we are being required to write out the surgical procedure (as indicated by the MD), and also write the surgical...
I left bedside nrsg after working on an orthopedic unit for 7 yrs. I am now working in an outpatient setting where we do nrsg interviews, perform EKG's and draw lab work, preoperatively. Do I miss...