I was thinking about an issue that has recently come to my attention as I have been working day shift for the past few months. In addition to noticing that my IV poles and pumps never seem to come back from CT/Xray/what have you, there seems to be a rash of nurses who believe that if a patient is in dialysis and has an accident it isn't their responsibility to clean them up. I was really surprised to come across this so frequently when I started days. After talking to a few of my techs I realized it was happening even more than I was even aware.
It is hard for me to decide if this is a case where we should start UO'ing (unusual occurrence reporting) this to get a paper-trail on the incidences, or if there is too much "he said she said" involved. The times we have confronted other departments we have gotten the "We don't do patient care, we are a procedural area" speech. Give me a break, we all do patient care, it isn't limited to the patient's room and home floor!
Thanks for listening, bored overdue momma here just thinking on work stuff.
