As I was looking over the guidelines at work about what nursing responsibilities are when a patient dies, I happened to notice a statement that did not seem quite right. It stated something along the lines of, "If a patient dies, shut the door, and let the next shift deal with it." This obviously cannot be a real policy, so I asked several of my coworkers what they thought about the statement. Several of them thought that it was meant to be a sarcastic statement, although we all agreed that it wasn't a very good joke. I actually enjoy sarcasm and joking around, but to me, it seems like a policy book, especially one regarding death, is not the appropriate place for that. So, I am wondering...would you say something about it? Who would you speak to? Something like this could reflect very poorly on the facility if an outsider was to see it...