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 trach can be done with clean technique.

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

   JEMRN replied to ShimmaShimma0304's topic in Safety

   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 the ER for a bed than necessary. If a patient com...

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 now using unlicensed trained staff as monitor techs...