nicutoo

unless you are the ony person that has the special skill set to take that patient you should be able to switch.

Reporting misses and near missed is a valuble way for our proffesion to get to a root cause and possibly avoid future errors, and change practice. An example of that would be when we had K+ on IV carts next to .9NA used to flush ports in the same color bottle. Hopefully it is done in a non punative enviroment. Anyway it is part of your responsibility as an advocate for the patient. The thing I notice that gets report the lest is bad MD orders that you have corrected. thats a near miss and suppports the fact that RNs are ultimately responsible for everything!

It was unfair of me to comment on what happens at UNC. We are fortunate that there are a few great NICUs in our area. I should have thought it through and realized that all the postings were around your expansion. Sorry to upset you. Every place has its ups and downs. We all should be proud of our good patient outcomes.

I work at Duke and love it. I also heard that the leadership and UNC is dificult. Good luck, and any questions about our ICN let me know, I also am a Jersey girl too. Where did you work in NJ