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Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

Study: CT Colongraphy Effective in Finding Polyps

A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > June, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 6

Do Patients Really Need to Void Prior to Discharge?

If you require all patients to urinate before you send them home, you might want to rethink that policy.

Kim Parr

There are worse things that a surgical nurse can do than wait and wait and wait for a post-operative patient who doesn't have to go to the bathroom to go to the bathroom, but it's a pretty short list.

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