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I am a new RN, still within my first year of practice. The other day, one of my patients had a fall and this is the first patient fall I've had to deal with. We set the patient up in a chair with his table over the chair, call button/personal items i...

The MD does discuss the plan with the patient and help set the limits, but what I find is that the patients behave differently with different members of the healthcare team. Like when they are talking to the doctor, they act like they're on board wit...

I am a new nurse with only about 6 months of acute care nursing experience. I am learning a lot every day, but the one thing that I am struggling with is dealing with manipulative patients. I love my job and what I do, but the one thing that really g...

thanks for all the responses! I think I've discovered my petpeeve in nursing and I've always been irritated with these kinds of behaviors in general. Recently, I was glad to learn a few things being done about this at my hospital: - The ER, special...