nursemel374

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1. How does your facility minimize fall risk?

   nursemel374 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   We place a colored band on all patients identified at risk, all staff are trained to recognize this. We also place a sign on the door that consists of 2 hands catching a falling star in the same color as the wristband. All staff also know about thi...

2. Float nurses doing cardiac assessment on DOU/Tele

   nursemel374 posted a topic in General Nursing

   We frequently float Med-Surg nurses to our DOU unit. recently we have been having a problem because the float nurses do not feel comfortable completing the cardiac assessment. I understand that they can not read the rthym strips, but they should be...

3. Shift Change on Med-Surg

   nursemel374 posted a topic in General Nursing

   How do you do shift change at your hosptial? We recently had the Joint Commission out and they told us we need to do 1:1 nurse to nurse report instead of the charge nurse general report we give now. We are wondering how we can get this done in 30 m...