schreiba

schreiba has 5 years experience.

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1. Patient and Staff Agreements?

   schreiba replied to schreiba's topic in Relations

   No. I do not "mean to say" that. Our current Code of Conduct is a very punitive listing of every horrible thing one could do to cause disciplinary action. It's verbiage is very negative. We want to have a positive code of conduct that not only detai...

2. Patient and Staff Agreements?

   schreiba posted a topic in Relations

   I'm on a committee to revise our Code of Conduct to be reflective of expectations for staff, patients and visitors. We are determined to reach a higher standard of respect, dignity, and collaboration at our hospital/school. It's been a bit hard for ...

3. PACU for cerclage

   schreiba replied to schreiba's topic in Safety

   Thank you for your response! We are definitely in agreement on focusing on what's best for the patient. We have some folks that are very capable of muddying the waters with semantics so it has been a challenge for the small PACU staff as they don't...

4. PACU for cerclage

   schreiba posted a topic in Safety

   Just curious what other facilities do... We have a small PACU located in the L&D wing. This is efficiently utilizing L&D OR space with other non-L&D cases vs. remaining empty when not needed. Of the 3 OR's, one is used for MAC and general...

5. Share Your Favorite Words of Wisdom on Nursing!

   schreiba replied to Yummy Chocolate's topic in General Students

   My dad once responded to me when I was freaking out about how overwhelmed I was during my first semester in nursing school, "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time..." I know it sounds silly, but I think of that when I start to panic and it a...

6. What type of drug tests do nursing schools do?

   schreiba replied to jillebean's topic in General Students

   I think we had urine and a little cheek thingy-not so much a swab, but a bitter stick that we had to hold in our cheek for several minutes. Funny how all of that seems like a blur now! Oh, and they did a background check too. I know at the hospital w...

7. New RN Student

   schreiba replied to nursingstudent714's topic in Student Assist

   I'm headed into the third semester of our program. While I initially thought, "not me!" when they told us in orientation that we needed to form study groups, and work with others (I'm kind of shy), I have to say finding a study group or partner has h...