HI Everyone, I had computer crash and lost all my datas including the standard nursing interview questions I use for interviewing nurses. Just wondering if...
We are trying to get the Med Residents to write Admission Orders on the Patient Care Units (vs the ED as they do now). Has anyone had sucess with this...
... Point out to them that if there is a 'ward bed' avaialble then the patient needs to be up there and not blocking up the ED ! Point out that it is the...
We don't have residents, but we have hospitalists that cause the same hold up. We frequently have them see the pt on the floor and write orders there....
been done many times, but there is loads of stuff around on witnessed resuscitation at the moment [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Have you thought of doing one on family presece during CPR or invasive procedures? Taramisu <taramisu1@...> wrote: I need to select an ethical/legal...
Nursing today is changing and it is about time. Nurses need to be recognized as the "Professionals" that they are. Independent Nurse Contractor is fast ...
... Blood transfusion to minors who parents are Johavah's witness. One that ER brought up recently which I thought was quite clever, transplantation of organs...
I also think, not being unkind but if you are drawing a blank and need a lotta help from this list you need to discuss the whole issue with your clinical ...
Tara, How about looking at PAIN management/assessment??? Now that JCAHO has established a separate standard for the assessment....and all the recent interest...
We also struggle with this issue. It really slows down through-put when they evaluate patients in the ER. The major problem that we have is that the ER...
The last ER I worked ( an extremely busy level one trauma center) had pretty good luck with this. The Emergency Dept MDs would write "skeleton orders" that...
I am trying to enact some change in how the facility I work in admits patients to inpatient units from the emergency department. Our current process is slow...
from 11ato 7-p we have an admission nurse and she comes to ED if the bed is ready and orders are written then she takes pt to floor and does all the admission...
kathieb321@...
Jan 26, 2005 4:18 pm
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We just got MED and ED docs together to agree that if a bed is available and the med residents have not written the orders within 1 hour... the patient will go...
admissions from the ed go very slowly at my hospital. first it is determined that the patient needs to be admitted from the ed then his doctor or whoever is...
i am just returning to work after 5 months away from the ED with a new diagnosis of MS. I do the job you described "admission" paperwork. this process helps...
At my hospital, we have a Bed Control nurse. We call them for all beds;except L&D beds. If the patient is on a teaching service; the resident will see the...
I work in a busy ED at an inner city trauma center. We have residents who write orders but they are also covering the floors of the hospital. When a patient...
foxydebby@...
Jan 27, 2005 12:49 pm
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Can I ask any of you nurses belong to a union, at work? Nurses, where I work, are talking to a large union. Any thoughts: Pros or Cons? Thanx, Lee, RN...
HI Lee there is a union at my hospital. it is kind of messed up because the RNs belong to one union independant of everyone else and the LPNs are with the...
In the UK we have a choice of unions and yes I belong to one. Unions are there to protect the professionalism of nursing and individual rights and represent a...
Tracy, I also belonged to a union but unlike Lee's union it included everyone in the hospital. That included housekeeping and maintenance. It was really...
--I have had no direct relationshp with a union however I have several freinds at another hospital who has/belongs to one. After sitting & listening to them...
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