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1. Joint commission and their ridiculous mandates

   nightdove replied to nightdove's topic in Critical

   I am sure you are a great nurse but every hospital is different. We have no cnas or unit secretaries. So much time is taken up doing paperwork. My nurses are the best of the best. They take excellent care of the pts. When they have a pt that is crash...

2. Joint commission and their ridiculous mandates

   nightdove replied to nightdove's topic in Critical

   I really appreciate what you said. It totally reflects what I feel and all the nurses that I work with in ICU. Everyone does all they can for their patients. They are all excellent nurses but it is so stressful making sure you dot the I's and cross t...

3. Joint commission and their ridiculous mandates

   nightdove replied to nightdove's topic in Critical

   And by the way all the critical care physicians I work with totally agree and trust the nurses judgement. They also think its a bunch of crap.

4. Joint commission and their ridiculous mandates

   nightdove replied to nightdove's topic in Critical

   Ok,you obviously don't take care of critical care patients that requires split second decisions. So you actually go by a protocol for titrating levophed instead of looking at the patient and doing what is best. Wow! You are obviously a new nurse, a...

5. Joint commission and their ridiculous mandates

   nightdove posted a topic in Critical

   I am so sick of joint commission and their ridiculous mandates on charting. They sit in some office somewhere and I am sure they have never worked in ICU and mandate what we need to chart. They say its best for the pt but in reality it actually takes...