If you could change on aspect of nursing.

Nurses General Nursing

Published

If you could choose one aspect of nursing to change, what would it be? And Why?

Specializes in ICU's, every type.

I'd say that JCAHO would now really know what nursing involves since their lattest (last 5 yr.) implemented standards ((which are excellent and needed))..... but know that they've taken so much time away from the patients they are trying to protect.... to have hospitals prioritys protecting their documentation first, and the patient second.

second.... jcaho shouldn't look for dings like... (yes I'm serious).. the door closed too slowly and lacked a warning sign stating it to be so... (in the rehab unit)... yes an official ding.

I would like our patients, not the chart to come first

last I'd like the average joe out there to get involved in their care, staffing ratios and raise holy hell when it's lacking, not simply because mom's call bell went unanswered for 10 minutes. I'd like them to become part of the solution, not the problem (ok, I guess that's two lofty wishes and not one) and the soap box is now open.

nice question,

Up Vote Up Vote ×
I'd say that JCAHO would now really know what nursing involves since their lattest (last 5 yr.) implemented standards ((which are excellent and needed))..... but know that they've taken so much time away from the patients they are trying to protect.... to have hospitals prioritys protecting their documentation first, and the patient second.

second.... jcaho shouldn't look for dings like... (yes I'm serious).. the door closed too slowly and lacked a warning sign stating it to be so... (in the rehab unit)... yes an official ding.

I would like our patients, not the chart to come first

last I'd like the average joe out there to get involved in their care, staffing ratios and raise holy hell when it's lacking, not simply because mom's call bell went unanswered for 10 minutes. I'd like them to become part of the solution, not the problem (ok, I guess that's two lofty wishes and not one) and the soap box is now open.

nice question,

Holy Cow!! You hit the nail right on the head!! Didn't think of that one. Yes, we all know that JCAHO is a necessity, but give me a break already. Some things just go above and beyond....

:deadhorse

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I can only say this as a student, the daughter of a Nurse and D.O., but I think image. People (even when I worked as a CNA) often see scrubs and a woman and think "cutsey little nursey-girl". I'd like to see Nurses treated professionally, and not like some teeny-bopper who "only has an associate's degree".

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Holy Cow!! You hit the nail right on the head!! Didn't think of that one. Yes, we all know that JCAHO is a necessity, but give me a break already. Some things just go above and beyond....

:deadhorse

AAAAAMEN!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
I'd like to see nurses portrayed as the highly skilled and technologically advanced professionals they have become and not as li'l fluff-brained angels in cutsie bunnie scrubs!:twocents:

I wouln't mind being seen in that light even. I am tired of being seen as a personal maid servant to clean butte and massage feet and fetch water, then the doctors expects me to have as much medical knowledge as they do , and then throw in whatever my job description really is with a couple of ceu's. I WISH NURSES COULD AND WOULD REDEFINE WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO AND MAYBE WE COULD ALL COME TO SOME KIND OF COMMAN GROUND TO ADVANCE THE PROFESSION AND GET THE SALARIES WE DESERVE. This is what our boards of nursing should be doing.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in ICU, CCU, Trauma, neuro, Geriatrics.

Power that refects the responsibility we carry. Just about anything that happens to a patient is our fault according to the patient, the family, the doctor, the supervisor, the director of nursing and the administration. So why does it seem no one listens to what we tell them? Family wants to hear only what they want to hear, therapy thinks we are crazy, doctors think we are bugging them with little crap, the patient thinks we should be in their room 24/7, the administration thinks we should be walmart greeters and the supervisor thinks we should be clones so we can do two nurses jobs.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I would like more staffing but I would not give up some of my pay. Why should we sacrifice our pay??? Staffing is a necessary tool to improve patient care and outcomes and reduce stress and injury. How often do you see an office worker give up some of her pay to improve computer software that is necessart for her job. I find that nurses are to nice. Instead of demanding what is right we are always comprimising. When are we going to speak up and start demanding. No I will not do clerical work, or I will not empty the garbage or the soiled linen bins. We take on too much work that is not our job and don't say anything except this is just to get through the shift. So instead of the staffing issue I will get to the root of the problem and say I would change the backbone of nursing. We collectively need to get one!

Up Vote Up Vote ×

charting!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Nursing assistant.
I'd like to see nurses portrayed as the highly skilled and technologically advanced professionals they have become and not as li'l fluff-brained angels in cutsie bunnie scrubs!:twocents:

I don't think there is a snowballs chance I could ever be portrayed as an angel in cutsie bunnie scrubs.....

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Progressive Care.

Better staffing, less paperwork. Im all for charting till the cows come home, CYA, but JCAHO comes up with all these extra forms like the interdiscilinary education record (IPER) to chart everything that we teach. Only the nurses do it even though its "interdisciplinary." And all of the other things we have to write down a million times a day. Do you know how many dressings, ivs, meds, assessments I could do if I wasnt trying to record everything that was said???? I appreciate that JCAHO is trying to regulate the best care and standards but I do not see how good care is possible when there are only 12 freaking hours in the shift and we have to do all these forms along with actual nursing, which then I guess goes back to good staffing.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Open Heart/ Trauma/ Sx Stepdown/ Tele.

Staffing!!!!!!!!!!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in NICU.

Here is another question, kind of a tangent but, not exactly: How did the image of nursing come to be what it is? I mean to say, how did it evolve from knowledgeable, skilled, kind, compassionate professional to everything from sex pot, gossip, incompetent, and morons who couldn't get into medical school? When and why did our image change?

Try reading "Nursing Against the Odds." It's long and a bit of a slog, but it addresses this point. The short answer is that when the early nursing pioneers (I'm talking Victorian era) were trying to bring nursing out of the religious orders, they recognized the "need" to make nursing unthreatening to the male doctors. So they framed nursing as a nicey-nice feminine body of work. I don't think it ever "changed" so much as never advanced from that.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Add a Comment