dadrn

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1. RN's removing surgical drains

   dadrn replied to conniejean's topic in Medical-Surgical

   Used to remove them all the time in Colorado, There was some great docs and nurses there that would show you whatever you needed to learn. I miss that. Now, I don;'t get to remove anything but...

2. Blocking beds when understaffed

   dadrn replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

   When we get so low on staff in the medicine/oncology ward where I work, we start sending medicine patients to other wards. This is obviously now appreciated by the surgical and ortho people. But we...

3. Oncology Nurse/Patient Ratio

   dadrn replied to MissRNC's topic in Oncology

   I'm new at this so bare with me, please. The ward can hold 24 patients, its supposed to be medicine/oncology but we get all kinds from psych to ortho, surgery, telemetry, etc. our acuity systems,...