Does anyone work at a hospital which is trying to make the physical work any easier for nurses? The profession is aging, with all that implies in terms of slowing down, aching feet and legs and backs, etc., but it does not seem as though hospitals are doing anything at all to help us keep going. Example: wasting narcotics now means two nurses have to run down to the Pyxis at the same time, we can't have carpets anymore because of infection control (but why can't we have them in the nurses' station), computers are in the patients' rooms in hopes nurses will stand there and do their charting, and rooms are private and enormously big, making us do twice the walking to take care of our patients. I know several very good nurses who may have to retire early just because it's harder and harder to keep up with all the walking and standing, which gets more demanding with each technological, safety and customer-service "improvement". Is there anyone out there who has come up with ways to make it physically easier?
