Vol. XIII, No. 4Archive > April, 2012

Behind Closed Doors

This is the Way We Milk the Clock

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

Surgical nurses are skilled at milking the clock by exploiting every staffing loophole known to man. Here are the tricks we RNs play.

 
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