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Q
A frequently used drug is suddenly supplied to your ORs in 10
mL vials instead of the customary 20 mL and 30 mL vials. When
you ask the pharmacy for twice as much and they doubt your need,
how will they explain the smaller packaging?
a.
The drug maker imports the 10 mL vials from a country where
there's not much beachfront property, and it takes a lot of sand to
make glass.
b.
There's a nationwide shortage of the drug, and the manufacturer
wants to boost demand so it can raise the price.
c.
The company that makes syringes has bought the drug maker,
and they want you to order in a new size of their product to get
the drug out of the vials.
d.
None of the above. They never explain anything.
Q
Your department manager has hired a new educator, an RN with
an MBA. She's energetic, smart, perky, and can recite policy and
procedure verbatim. She's also never set foot in an OR. It is incumbent
upon you as a staff member to:
a.
Vote down her first suggestion, that patients with MRSA, VRE, C.
diff. and other superbugs get ladybug stickers on their charts.
b.
Assign her to shadow a "Golden Girl" specialty circulator, who
knows all the angles, every day for 3 months.
c.
Assign her to scrub in with student nurses every day for 3 months
until she's seen all the specialties. They'll learn together.
d.
I don't know, that's going to be a rough couple of months until she
leaves for a job in corporate.
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