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If we the Nurses could plan a perfect hospital what would you include?
i am dying to hear what people want especially as i feel that although Nurses are involved in planning hospital services somewhere its at that level where those kind of directors havent nursed for ages and have no idea what it's like
please post your ideas please (Sorry for bad grammar etc.)
Originally posted by ERNurse752My hospital "network" is opening up a brand new hospital, and the docs put their own orders into the computer - no transcribing.
On the floors, instead of curtains, they have special windows where at the flip of a switch, they fog over allowing for privacy.
All the beds have cardiac chair capability - no more sliding pts over, placing lines and ETT's at risk of being yanked...
I'm not sure about the other units, but in the SICU (CVRR), there is a computer/monitor in the breakroom, so that you could watch your pt or chart and actually get away from the unit somewhat.
They have the little call light/cellphone thingies...
Major drawback; no nurses' stations. They have little computer stations every couple of rooms or so...
Now if we could just have clone nurses, so they could do the work while we went out and had some fun...
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Physician Order Entry.... that is what we are looking into where I work. We have Meditech (Mediwreck?) and the docs are just starting to get accustomed to some of its features.
The "fogging" windows are a great idea. I saw those on a new Horton (who?) ambulance a couple of years ago. That would make sense in-house as well.
Having the terminal in a break room is not a bad idea, either. We never have sufficient terminals, but are looking into some type of wireless "tablet" system for the ICU.
Cloning nurses? There are some who we could several more copies of.... same goes for some of the docs....... Send In the Clones...........
Originally posted by emily_momMaybe you should clarify yourself before making such a asinine comment.
And maybe you should stop being so damned quick to make nasty comments :angryfire
Send in the clowns/
There ought to be clowns
Very well-known song by Steven Sondheim, I would have thought that you'd know it. Switch clowns for clones and there you have not only my post, but the post before it also which prompted my response. The little word 'sings' with an asterix on either side denotes that the poster is singing.
Is that clear enough for you now?
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(insert well known Samuel Goldwyn quote)
Yup, no patients, I mean wouldnt our lives all be so much easier if their wernt any? being ill and what not, demanding drugs and care and attention.
I also belive their shouldnt be any doctors either, constantly diagnosing disease, I mean for goodness sake, how anti-social can you get?