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  1. Tag team elopement

    statcoffee posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I work on a bit of Hellish unit. 10 bed holding area, patient acuity levels vary greatly, and also do a massive amount of admissions/discharges/transfers. This past week I ended up with two patients...

  2. Patient education and documentation.

    statcoffee posted a topic in Patient Education

    This is a long one, forgive me...I was recently called into my supervisor's office and was told that there had a been fall out regarding a patient I discharged sometime in December. I was told I did...

  3. Tag team elopement

    statcoffee replied to statcoffee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    1. We have not been given any orientation specifically. Generally, it's call the hospital police, or get the doctor to order restraints. HP usually does nothing, and the staff must be put in harms way...

  4. Tag team elopement

    statcoffee replied to statcoffee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    He was on observation for lack of insight, nothing about self harm or violence. I would have surely not given the CNA any of his belongings if that were the case. He was AOx3, alert and even stated...

  5. Patient education and documentation.

    statcoffee replied to statcoffee's topic in Patient Education

    I tried but the patient only spoke a dialect of Slovakian. There were no interpreters at the hospital who spoke the language, and the phone interpreter I found was unable to communicate with the...