This is something I would like clarified as a recent situation has drawn up some questions. I feel my DON is VERY in the wrong here. She is trying to tell us that here, in the state of FLORIDA, one does NOT need a YELLOW DNR order formed signed by the physician and the patient or DPOA to WITH-HOLD CPR on a pulseless pt. Nurses are having action taken against them because a pt was unsuccessfully coded who was supposedly a 'DNR', but her chart was absent of that signed YELLOW form. The DON told us that if the pt had a T.O. the doc's signature on it and that's it that it was sufficient enough to not code a pt.
I was ALWAYS taught that in the absence of that signed DNR form, you are to code any and every pt. She is trying to tell us that a T.O. signed by the doc is good enough not to perform CPR!!! I have never talked to anyone who would echo this statement! We all KNOW it has to be that yellow DNR form totally filed out in order NOT to code the pt. Are we all crazy?
There are so many things with wrong this.
Please help I need your input!