Policies are one of those things in healthcare that we all know we need—and almost everyone has been frustrated by. For nurses, a good policy can be incredibly useful. It gives us a shared framework for practice, establishes expectations, and gives us somewhere to turn when we encounter a situati...

Nursing has a fascinating oral tradition. We pass knowledge from nurse to nurse, preceptor to orientee, charge nurse to staff nurse. Some of it is incredibly useful clinical wisdom that you'll never find in a textbook. And some of it is Pam confidently telling the new grad that she should never b...

Is documentation the #1 thing that keeps patients safe and you from being involved in a malpractice suit? No. Nope. Probably not even in the top three. The number one thing that keeps patients safe—and helps prevent the kind of harm that leads to litigation—is you: the well-trained, critical-thin...

If there is a professional practice (i.e. “legal”) question I get more than “Is it true that if it wasn’t charted, it wasn’t done?” it’s gotta be: “Do I need malpractice insurance?” Nurse malpractice insurance is an important—and surprisingly polarizing—subject in the nursing community. Some see ...