Nursebirdy

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1. Restraint without order

   Nursebirdy replied to Nursebirdy's topic in Safety

   Well i finally talked to my boss and she agreed with my actions. She said I did the right thing to keep the patient safe, but I should have tried lesser versions of restraints, like a belt. That wouldn't have worked with this thrashing patient, but...

2. Restraint without order

   Nursebirdy replied to Nursebirdy's topic in Safety

   I was shocked when he said that too. If you can't tell by now, I'm a new nurse, less than 6 months on the floor. I filed the report about it because the nursing supervisor told me to. She said her previous facility would give an hour to get orders,...

3. Restraint without order

   Nursebirdy replied to Nursebirdy's topic in Safety

   The Dr is known to be difficult. Everyone at our facility rolls their eyes when they hear his name. It was 11pm and I was calling him at home. I also called the House Officer to come evaluate her face to face, which he did. But it was a resident ...

4. Restraint without order

   Nursebirdy posted a topic in Safety

   I had a combative patient who was fighting off 3+ staff with enormous strength. She was a schizophrenic who had not been taking her meds. I paged the Dr to see if he would order restraints. He never called back. Eventually we had 5 people, three ...