Nov2007_LPN

Have any of you been asked by your DON and the doctor to write telephone orders for things like home health for wounds,Xrays for falls/injuries and UA's if you suspect a resident has a UTI without actually calling the doctor when these things occur a...

I don't care how many patients/ residents there are I would want to know the BP if I was giving the med. Id have the CNA's get the vitals if there low hold the med I find as a new nurse most new nurses try to do things the way we are taught. The prob...

Okay so what do I do, im not going to write orders for the doctor but my DON keeps telling me too

This is in an ALf with an ECC/LNS license-And the Don keeps making statements to me that Im not writing up telephone orders for things that the doc has said we could but I dont feel comfortable doing it.I want the doctor to actually look at the wound...

This is in an ALf with an ECC/LNS license-And the Don keeps making statements to me that Im not writing up telephone orders for things that the doc has said we could but I dont feel comfortable doing it.I want the doctor to actually look at the wound...

This question is for any Nurses really up on Nursing documentation. I'm a new nurse, I got a pocket guide book from hcmarketplace that described how to chart care provided by another nurse if that nurse calls and asks you to chart an entry she forgot...