nursecheryler

scenario: patient in a room in a hospital 2 days with a bedside commode with someone else's urine in it. asked several times for it to be removed instead was just moved around the room "out of the way" and come back in a minute...2 days later the patient put the urine filled bedside commode out in the hallway, where it was still sitting when the patient was discharged. nurse thought the tech did it the tech thought the nurse did it...no one took ownership...

Understand that a scribe in the procedure room is acceptable thanks for the input.... i am expected to also have a dual role for retrieving, opening and handing off sterile devices to the scrubbed in RT...i am extra help in this room every 6 to 7 weeks and am not knowledgable about where to find the supplies needed during a case...the RT has to step away from the table to point to the catheter or wire that is needed...just doesn't sound right....

so more details of my fear is...the sedating nurse at the head of the patient bed is pushing meds and charting their own meds manually on a form signed by the physician....and i am charting the meds that that nurse told me they just pushed in the electronic chart....question....what if that nurse is pushing the limits on the level of consciousness....to needing an anesthes. am i charting that i agree with the other nurses work? eeven if i don't agree with how much med given to the patient

don't know what to do...i am being asked to chart on another nurses patients everything that the other nurse does so the other nurse would be available to monitor the patient at the head of the bed without interruption during conscious sedation...vital signs and the medication that they push...the direct care nurse transcribe it on a medication form but our facility wants us to enter that information for that other nurse...just not comfortable with that request....