BoonieNurse

I understand the MD not being able to give a pt a DEFINITE discharge date in advance, BUT the SW could have called for info re: motels and communicated this info to the patient.

I do the same as medsurgrnco.... I work both 7p and 7a shifts and have a facesheet that I made up on my computer for each shift. It has a column of routine tasks that gets crossed off when each is completed.... things like: crash cart check, check ...

Before I became a nurse, my mother had been in a coma postop with sepsis for 2 weeks. On the 14th day (the only noc we had spent away from the hospital), my dad and I were awakened by a phone call that they had "coded" my mom. When we arrived at th...