Is It Worth All That Work?

July 2, 2012
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 I was talking to our fantastic orthopedics floor RN Manager, Lisa Wall, a few days ago about the desk work she was doing that she said had gotten so much harder since I had been doing continuous blocks on her floor. This certainly caught my attention since I am used to RN’s telling me how so many things (some of which I never would’ve realized) are so much better with all the blocks on their floor. Lisa regularly goes through charts to evaluate and report RN performance on “Pain Reassessments”. Any time a patient reports pain, whether spontaneously or when asked, the RN is supposed to do a “pain intervention”. The RN also has to check back on the effectiveness of the intervention, a “Pain Reassessment”. The particular type of medication is not indicated, only whether or not the RN checked on their pain after the intervention.

     As it so happens …

 

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