It depends upon whether the assistant is same gender as the patient so as to not make for discomfort with the patient if intimate care is involved. There are as well HIPAA considerations which speaks...
Thanks for the explanation sailornurse, and I do understand why medical providers want chaperones for intimate exams. I'm fortunate that I've been able to avoid what I consider a privacy invasion...
Rocknurse, your saying that you explain what everyone in the room is there for and asking the patient if it is OK is like music to my ears. If only it were that way everywhere. Treating the patient...
I don't want to discourage you Rlien but some people are just ornery. My in-laws were both in the same nursing home at one point. He was always a happy man and in his decline he was still the same...
Biker53 replied to Cheyenne RN,BSHS's topic in General Nursing
Scribes may be great for the efficiency of doctors and nurses but how about the patient? If there is something of a personal nature that I would discuss with a doctor or an RN I will not do it in...
First, thanks to all the nurses for doing what you do. From my perspective nurses usually know more about a patient's condition and how to get them better than the doctors who breeze in and out...
Biker53 replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in Nursing News
Thanks LadyFree, I am not so much interested in this one nurse being she gave up her license but rather whether in general BON see offences like this as cause to revoke a license. It is really a...
Biker53 replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in Nursing News
I take no responses to my question about whether her license would have been revoked to mean it probably wouldn't. Not reassuring at all if what she did wouldn't result in it being
Biker53 replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in Nursing News
A question for those here with some experience with licensing boards. Had she not voluntarily given up her license, would the licensing board have revoked
Biker53 replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in Nursing News
Will she be able to just move to another State and become licensed there and work again as a nurse? Obviously losing her license is a big deal but having to register as a sex offender would seem to...