Great job for doing the right thing in this situation! I agree that taking VS is an assessment, not a treatment. And as nurses, we make assessments all the time without even laying our hands on...
Overseeing passing meds to 12 people and being accountable for 6 students seems like unsafe practice. Even in my last semester of nursing school, we did not pass meds every week. We had 8 people in...
Hardest part: Knowing that you have done everything you are humanly capable of doing for someone, and they still aren't satisifed. Dealing with it: Putting my day's work behind me and not bringing it...
My hospital uses Bedside Medication Verification (BMV) for med administration which also integrates with our computerized charting in Meditech. I cannot imagine using anything other than a barcode...