New grads- call the board of nursing and request a copy of your state’s nurse practice act. That way you will know what is in your scope of practice. Your
Thad a patient pass. In his culture/religion no one was to touch the body for 4 hours to allow the spirit to properly pass into the afterlife. The hospital supervisor
CCU nurse here. Code going on and the intern, who was certifiable, wanted us to stop the code so he could look up the strips in his manual. Needless to
As a young nurse I worked in a hospital on a cardiac floor, but we did have some overflow patients or patients with a Gl consult. This one Gl doc
I was helping a patient back to bed, after him using the bathroom, I went ahead of him pushing his IV pole and out of his way, then he grabbed
when I was orienting for my first nursing job, I asked my preceptor what she thought of malpractice insurance because she had been a nurse for almost 40 years. She