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charge nurse

n
(Professions) Brit a nurse in charge of a ward in a hospital. Female equivalent: sister
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They insist she punched Dr Sam Harte and slapped, grabbed and pushed charge nurse Christopher Kourbrough.
She was top of her class, became a charge nurse in six months, then trained in Scotland at the first therapeutic community.
Sarah Gemmell, deputy charge nurse, said: "Everyone on the children's ward is hugely appreciative of this fantastic donation, made in the memory of Tyler McQueen, and very grateful to Adyn for his kind actions."
She has also served as an RN and charge nurse for DaVita Baltimore County Dialysis for the past 10 years.
The action against Dr Khurram Shamsher Mughal, a leader of the Young Doctors Association (YDA), was taken after a complaint was filed against him by a charge nurse.
Before joining Merit Health Central, Polk worked at sister facility Merit Health Wesley in Hattiesburg and Preferred Nurse Staffing in Jackson, both as a critical care charge nurse. He also served as a flight nurse/ paramedic with AAA Ambulance Service in Hattiesburg as a member of their critical care transport team.
Days that never seem to end; when there is new equipment that no one has been trained on; when the call lights are many and constant; when acuity is too high or staffing is too low; when your charge nurse (wait, we have a charge nurse?) is too busy with his or her own patients to help anyone with theirs.
His granddaughter, Ashley Stevens, paid tribute on Facebook to charge nurse Cheryl White, who arranged the visit at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.
Assignments typically are made by the unit charge nurse or nurse manager, and have the potential to affect patient, nurse, and hospital outcomes.
He was a trainee nurse, staff nurse, young charge nurse and nursing officer in the acute general hospitals in the NHS for almost 30 years.
Protocols regarding urgency of notification were reinforced by the charge nurse during the "nursing huddle" at change of nursing shift, and any concerns regarding urgency of notifications were reviewed.
Meanwhile, the nurses of DHQ Hospital today went on strike and took out a rally to protest against the insulting behavior of charge nurse Nasreen Saboor.