Hospital ward: the unsafe extra shift
Apply an assertive no when extra work would create safety risk rather than ordinary inconvenience.
hospital ward nurses station at shift change, tired clinician in scrubs holding a handoff tablet, charge nurse nearby looking concerned, clean clinical lighting with empty space for overlay, no text, words, letters, numerals, logos. Amara is at a hospital ward nurses station after a long shift while the charge nurse asks her to stay for discharge calls. Two staff are out sick. Amara has just finished a long shift. The charge nurse says, "Can you stay and finish the discharge calls?" What should Amara say? I cannot safely take another discharge block after this shift. I can finish the handoff…
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