Klindse

I do believe as clinical staff we have to make patients happy. Not that it's our number one job but as "Healerforlife" said we have patient satisfaction now. I know at the hospital I'm at now, they have standards to make a patient comfortable in the hospital which basically leads to keeping a patient happy. I notice a lot of hospitals are now focusing on patient satisfaction more than they have in the past. It's our jobs as nurses to go out of our way for patients and "put on their shoes" which will raise that patient satisfaction. I don't believe a nurse should drive to get food for a patient of course, but if he needs anything that the nurse can do such as nursing duties we should do it.

Hello nurses! I'm currently a nursing student in the program at Purdue and I'm enrolled in nursing informatics this summer. I'm working on a project about where should nurses access information. My question to all of you is..... Should nurses be able to access patient information/patient charting outside of the facility? What are your thoughts? Should we keep it the way it is now and only allow electronic charting in a facility only? How about accessing patient information on a smartphone? Thank you so much for your responses!