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Anyone have any ideas on how to get nurses' "buy in" to in-services and new education? I'm a new educator and am having hard time getting the nurses to take me seriously. It's like I'm giving them "more to do." I've tried bringing snacks, offerin...

I was actually a new grad at Cedars. I love it because of all the specialties you get exposure to. The docs were a little intimidating, but I had a great experience with the nurses. If I had to do things over again, I'd definitely begin there.

I love that idea! Using staff meetings as an opportunity for learning. I guess now my battle will be getting the directors to change their staff meeting requirements...

Thanks for your reply. We do something similar to keep up with annual competencies, calling it "nursing re-orientation." Being mandatory, they get paid 4 hours. I got the idea of candy/snacks from when I worked at Cedars Sinai in LA. They had a C...

I work at a tiny hospital that just re-opened. We've never had an ET nurse before, so we aren't sure what his scope of practice is. We plan on writing out a standardized procedure. But until then, these specific questions keep popping up: Can sh...

It's an Outpatient Wound Care Center within our hospital. She is actually an employee of med-surg/tele, but was asked to help out in the wound care center. She has not completed any patient care training whatsoever. However, since she is a US in a...

I found your post today while I about to post a similar story of my own. Apparently, a med/surg unit secretary was asked to help out in our wound care center while their secretary was out on a leave. She came to me all excited because she got to pe...