Smh. Fine, you win. I have no interest in continuing this pointless line of conversation. Chare very generously posted a link to the bill - all Washington nurses, particularly those who work for CAHs...
Of course I don't read every bill. But I read bills that affect me personally. Particularly if it affects me to the point where I'm going to Allnurses to ask about it, I would certainly familiarize...
But why not? It affects you. Apparently enough that you're considering moving to a different state over it. It boggles my mind that you wouldn't actually READ the bill and know what you're arguing...
8 hour shifts x 7 days a week = 56 hours worked/week The bill is not forcing you to work 56 hours/week. I don't agree with the bill, but it helps no one's cause to be
How can a parent forget their child in the car?? I would NEVER do this. Please read: https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/hot-car-deaths-explained/index.html...
I've used both, and prefer Epic quite a bit, but as verene stated, so much of it depends on how your individual facility has customized it (or, if you're using someone else's platform, how THEY have...
klone replied to Upgrading_Status's topic in Ob/Gyn
That's crazy. I've worked in 7 different L&D units in 4 different states, and I've never heard of L&D nurses taking more than 2 labor patients at a time, except in the rare instances of...
This happened a year ago, and this is someone I knew. She is a good person, and a good practitioner, and a loving mother. There is research that talks about brains on autopilot, and how it can...
I wonder how they would get around the liability issues of non-adults in the clinical setting doing their clinical rotations. I don't believe minors can sign binding consents and enter into contracts,...
klone replied to Upgrading_Status's topic in Ob/Gyn
I’m the manager, and I insist on following AWHONN’s staffing guidelines. I’m sorry your facility staffs so unsafely. You’re saying you have 4 patients in LABOR? Not
I completed it. I stated in the comments that for the survey, the questions should actually be phrased as statements, because your scoring is whether you agree or disagree. It doesn't make sense to...
I wish I could take the credit, but I have a super awesome clinical coordinator who wrote most of them for me, I just had to make time to sit down with each employee and go over it with them. I wish...
It changes based on new research, sharing ideas with other practitioners, and going to conferences and hearing what other facilities are doing. I then write hospital policy and practice changes,...
What type of facility is this? Are your ANM and/or NM planning on coming in to work? What I would do is, when you get there, only take report on the number of patients you would normally take care of...
To what advantage would the floor nurses manipulate the acuity tool? I mean, they would just be screwing themselves, no? It's not like you have the CEO or the finance person filling it out. It's...
In Oregon, staffing the unit based on the unit's staffing plan (which was created by the nurses who work in that department and includes an acuity tool) is mandated by law. The acuity tool is filled...
That's why I am in favor of an acuity-based staffing matrix, rather than a mandated set ratio. Because if you have a set ratio, THAT is what administration will focus on. "Sorry, your ratio is 6:1....