Resus Nurse Podcast

Malena Fryar "Use your critical thinking skills!” Do any of you remember hearing that being drilled in nursing school? How many of us are actually make critical decisions for your patients or are you deferring all decisions to the providers?  Really think about this. Decisions in triage - nurses do everything in this domain.  Most ED's don't even have a provider up in triage. We seem to do okay in this area.  But then the patient comes in to get worked up and now ALL decisions to the providers.  Why??!  Why do you have to stop making decisions? You know what’s going on - You were trained for this! As nurses, we are the ones at the bedside - who better to answer these questions, than us?! Nursing Autonomy ED nursing is awesome because we have autonomy - why give it away? Aside from the ED, the only other unit that has these privileges are the ICUs. Remember, we deal with ICU/critical patients - why not have the same autonomy? I encourage you to make clinical decisions in your practice. Yes, you may ne