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Celebrating Nurses’ Monumental Impact
There is a myriad of ways to participate in National Nurses Week, which is celebrated May 6-12, from honoring your staff RNs with a gift or event to taking steps to let...
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Give Discharge Instructions Before, Not After
The key to explaining discharge instructions so patients can easily understand them is to start in pre-op. Review discharge instructions and conduct crutch training, if necessary, while patients are in their pre-op bays. PACU nurses will appreciate that the post-op education will take less time to review, and groggy patients recovering appreciate not having a ton of new information sprung on them.
Amiee Mingus, RN, CPAN
Regent Surgical Health
Boulder City, Nev.
[email protected]
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