Gerinurse101

I love being a nurse, it's all that other crap that you have to deal with..and I am not talking feces!! Bad attitudes, Working short, Poor management. I am telling ya..I would work at the Animal shelter if it would pay my bills! I am currently, very actively looking for something away from bedside nursing. One of my favorite jobs was working at a Donut Shop! Yes the pay was crappy, the hours were crappy, and most people were grumpy, but the crew I worked with everyday were the best! And just that made all the difference!

It came off the ANA.org website.

Hello all, I was justing researching this topic and I came up with this from the archives of Allnurses.com. "The approved definition says patient abandonment is a unilateral severance of the established nurse-patient relationship without giving reasonable notice to the supervisor so that arrangements can be made for continuation of nursing care by others" If I understand this correctly, a "No call, No show" would be considered abandonment because that would not be reasonable notice to the supervisor.

Can just quitting without notice be considered abandonment? I know it is not the wisest thing to do, but would it also be considered abandonment?

Does anyone do weekly summaries? We have a new DON and she just switched from Monthly to weeklies, and needless to say we are falling far behind! And again very redundant!