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We have no lunch relief on weekends or holidays. The closest nurse would be the next floor up or ER which is way at the other end of the hospital. The aide leaves to get the blood, then you are the only staff with patients. If we have a problem, we would have to call the rapid response team or a full code. Luckily we havent had any problems. I just wanted to see what other facilities were doing.

I'm an RN that works with the original poster. On the weekends, we are in the Outpatient Surgery Center alone with our aide. What kind of backup do you have on the weekends?

I work in an outpatient infusion center. We are open 7days a week. Weekdays we have outpatient surgery nurses as backup or to help. On wkends/holidays, we are alone. One RN & an aide. No one else is close by. We are not comfortable scheduling blood product transfusions, phlebotomies, remicade, etc. due to potential reactions. What are other infusions centers doing? We can see 17 patients on a saturday with only one nurse.

Oh, these are killing me!!!!!!!!! "Orientated" makes my head explode...along with"On-o-cology" and one nurse I knew who pronounced Ibuprofen "Ibb-u-profen"

when I worked peds, we routinely returned the waste, but with adults, we never do.