Erin

After having once again witnessed a doctor ask a patient (this time a 91 YO) "if your heart stopped would you want us to do anything?" and then write orders for a full code without any further explanation to the pt of what this would entail, I have t...

Crista thanks for your reply. Many times I have attempted to clarify what a code actually is to a patient, and sometimes recieved a positive response from the patient, more often than not though due in part to the medias representation of codes (wher...

Having just finished getting the equivalent of a bachelors in nursing after practing for 10 years on an ADN I feel I can offer some comments on the two. I didn't find that the BS work gave me much to add to my current job as a staff nurse in a hospit...