I have just attended an excellent conference including a presentation on performing pelvic exams on challenging patients. Which begs the question- why do “non-medical smear-takers” aka nurses NOT get taught to do bi-manual pelvic exams with their smeartaking? It is like teaching phlebotomy without teaching how to actually draw the blood. Can anyone tell me [...]
Posts Tagged skills
The whole shebang
Jul 20
what’s in a day?….
May 13
I always have an uncomfortable niggle at the thought of “Nurses Day”. I get the same feeling when I consider the “special” nurses conference day that the GPCME conference offers. Its a “pat on the head and be good/silent for the rest of the year” kind of niggle. And I see that I am not [...]
Nurses do not “pop”
Jan 18
Apparently health chiefs in an Auckland (NZ) hospital are reviewing their safety record as part of their continuing quality improvement plans. I wasn’t going to bring this to the blog but then I spied the last paragraph: The hospital has been running a pilot to reduce falls……“Nurses popping in every hour to have a chat [...]