Welcome back to Part 2 of our nursing myth-busting series. As nurses, we learn an incredible amount in nursing school, orientation, continuing education, and years of clinical practice. But we also learn from each other. Unfortunately, sometimes the “rules” passed around the nurses’ station are not rules at all. They are nursing urban legends. And when your license is on […]
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“You haven’t taken report yet, so you can leave.” “The doctor ordered it, so you’re covered.” “If you documented it, you’re protected.” Have you ever heard one of these statements at the nurses’ station? Nursing has its own version of urban legends. They get passed from nurse to nurse, shift to shift, and sometimes generation to generation. Eventually, we hear […]
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There is a statistic every nurse, healthcare leader, legislator, and patient should know: hospital workers are seven times more likely to be injured on the job by violence than workers in the general U.S. workforce. The statistic is based on Bureau of Labor Statistics injury data and was recently highlighted in Medical Daily. (Medical Daily) Seven times! We would never […]
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