JEMRN

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1. trach care question?

   JEMRN replied to deegale's topic in General Nursing

   I have been working on a respiratory floor for 20 years. Suctioning down the trach, changing and/or cleaning the inner cannula is always done as sterile technique. Cleaning around the outside of the...

2. Opinion re: getting a new patient at the end of your shift

   JEMRN replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   On my unit, we have a "rule" for all patients admitted within 15 minutes of the end of a shift. Certainly it is not good customer service or comfortable for the patient to have to wait any longer in...

3. Telemetry Monitoring Procedures

   JEMRN posted a topic in General Nursing

   We are starting up a central monitoring room to monitor patients on telemetry. While we used to monitor telemetry on individual units in our hospital using nurses as the monitor technicians, we are...