arbldj1234

http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/impact-of-education

I am not entirely sure why anyone would feel comfortable asking questions when people are treated like this. You can't be expected to know EVERYTHING! Did you seriously have to be that rude?

Wasnt everyone taught to scrub the hub for 15 seconds? My dad has a triple lumen central line that he gets weekly blood draws from and dressing changes from a local hospital. I have gone with him a few times and noticed that the nurses clean them at a MAXIMUM of 4 seconds. How do I handle this?

My hospital has recently implemented hourly rounding. Aids round on even hours and nurses on odd hours. We address the 5 p's and initial an hourly rounding log that is pinned to the patient's white board. The logs are turned into the manager and reviewed on a daily basis. If they find any discrepancies they talk to the staff members assigned to that pt. Once they are reviewed they are shredded. Now we are questioning how we prove that we are doing hourly rounding to Joint Commission. Is this a Joint Commission requirement? One suggestion was to put an hourly rounding task into our EMR. We would have to fill out a form and document the 5 p's we addressed. We don't think this is feasible on a med/surg unit. If we have 6 pts we would be filling it out 72 times a shift. Some other facilities are scanning the pts ID bands to verify hourly rounding has been completed. We were not thrilled about this idea either. What are your hospitals doing to document hourly rounding?