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  1. Clinical Decision Unit

    karoline posted a topic in General Nursing

    My hospital is opening a new 8 bed unit that will be called the "Clinical Decision Unit". Don't know why that title is being used. Anyways, patients will be admitted to this unit directly from the...

  2. Clinical Decision Unit

    karoline replied to karoline's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital is opening a new 8 bed unit that will be called the "Clinical Decision Unit". Don't know why that title is being used. Anyways, patients will be admitted to this unit directly from the...

  3. sleeping staff

    karoline replied to night owl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I have worked night shift at various times in my career and have been upset with coworkers who sleep at the desk at night. I feel what anyone does on their 30 minute break away from the immediate...

  4. Blocking beds when understaffed

    karoline replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

    Over the holidays one wing of a med-surg tele floor was closed due to not enough nursing staff - 18-20 beds. The nurses who worked there were relocated to other areas in the hospital. The ER does go...

  5. Am I just being petty?

    karoline replied to huggietoes's topic in General Nursing

    Wow - what a terrible situation. I don't know where you live but with the nursing shortage the way it is - at least here in northeast Ohio - I am appalled that anyplace treats their nurses this way....

  6. Funny Names for Nurses

    karoline replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    Podiatrist - Dr.

  7. Patient demands, "I want a different nurse"

    karoline replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

    Several years ago I worked pediatrics at a university hospital and many of the kids on my unit had a hematology/oncology related diagnosis or some other chronic disorder that required lengthy and...