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I cannot imagine WHY A NURSE WOULD REQUIRE YOU TO SIGN A PERMIT THAT YOU INDICATED WAS NOT CORRECT!!!!!!!! Having said that I am appalled and embarrassed by the lack of professionalism and disregard of patient safety and the WHO, Joint Commission, AO...

It is so hard these days to find the balance in Nursing. It is true that times have changed and there are many different responsibilities and pressures to handle. I feel bad for nursing right now but I feel worse for the patients we serve. We are ...

Isn't it interesting that so many places have so many different ways of doing things. It just says to me that standards are so general and varied there is such a wide interpretation that no really knows what is the best and safest way to do anything...

Isn't it interesting that so many places have so many different ways of doing things. It just says to me that standards are so general and varied there is such a wide interpretation that no really knows what is the best and safest way to do anything...

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I Listened to a news story this morning about Grady Memorial Hosp in Atlanta going back to all white uniforms for Nurses. The overall feeling is that we are indistinguishable from anyone else in the hospital. Other reports discuss the overall lack ...

In our hospital we do share eye drops for pre-op cataract clients. The drops are instilled by the holding room RNs and the tips arent allowed to touch the eye at all. The drops are then discarded after their use for that day. All the patients for ...

Congratulations! You will do fine if you don't try to be super woman. Listen to your body it will tell you when to slow down take a break order out instead of cook and get the LB (lover boy) to help with the daily chores if living. I have had three...

Ours are the same and ENDORNs we use the olympus scope washer for all our endoscopes. The Colon and EGD scopes are on one setting and the bronch is a different setting about a 70 minute cycle (bronch)vs a 40 min cycle (endoscopes). The scopes are l...

I work in a small hospital and after our pacu facilitators became certified in pacu nursing the tide changed indicating that two RNs needed to be available for all recovery patients. We work it out during the day easily due to the number of staff th...

I agree with many of you in that demanding patients and families can be a definate strain on the daily work load and time management for pt care. I am somehwhat troubled though by many of the negative remarks regarding pts and their families. (burn ...

Demerol has fallen out of favor in pain management due to the breakdown of demerol in the body produces nor-meperidine. With prolonged use as in chronic pain management this build up can cause dangerous and uncomfortable S/Es. As nor-meperidine bui...

nurses today are rushed and pushed through programs to be dumped into acute care hospitals. newly graduated rns are becoming the new face of specialty nursing units such as icus ers ors and the like. these new rns come out of school with a totally ...

Just wanted some feed back on benifits out there. The Hospital where I work has just cut benifits this year by taking our accured sick time and changed it to what they are calling short term disability. All the hours we had accured as regular sick ...

Weezie Sorry Girl but I know of no place that allows family to be in attendance when surgery is going on. The scrub sinks usually serve more that one room and others may be scrubbing for another procedure in another room. Pt privacy is a big issue ...

I believe that there is almost always a place for family in the care of a loved one. We have, for too many years, shut out families who then felt pushed out and began to think WE HAD Something TO HIDE. I believe in close contact and frank discussio...

The cleaning of surgical insturments should be done in the central processing area and all instruments should go through similar processes to ensure uniformity of care and uniform levels of practice. All patients should be treated with the same leve...

As A OR Rn I must say that having more people in a room during surgery just increases the risk of problems. Infection rates increase with increased personel in an active OR. Many people think they are ready and able to view procedures on loved ones...

in this day and age it is so very sad that the only way a nurse can rise to a level of financial security is to leave patient care and go into management or administration. why is it that so many people think because we are nurses we are happy to w...