The Lindsay Clancy trial is putting clinical documentation under a microscope, showing how conversations, assessments, medication decisions, and gaps in communication can take on new meaning years later.
We’ve all heard the saying, “Nurses eat their young.” The phrase describes the jarring treatment of new nurses that can unsettle them to the point that it affects their job performance. Being the most trusted profession, we as nurses are expected to be caring, compassionate, and selfless in our service to others at all times….
The Preceptor sets the foundation for the success of the Novice Nurse (defined as beginners who have had no experience of the situation in which they are expected to perform). This can be a new nurse graduate or the nurse with 25 years’ experience who decides to take a job as a Psych nurse after…