"Best Practice" would be to have more nurses.

[Emergent]

We got a memo that we are going to be inconvenienced with a new policy, in the name of "best practice".

Yet, administration, and the regulatory bodies, all seem to turn a blind eye when it comes to safe staffing.

Out of touch hypocrisy, as usual. The ivory tower overseers strike another blow against common sense, turning the workplace into an obstacle course, while ignoring the elephant in the room.

[mrsjonesRN]

Not to mention patients and families aren't stupid. If we are all saying the exact same phrase shift after shift after shift patients will feel less cared for and less individual.

As pointed out above, the basic math shows the impossibility of the expectations at the bedside.

The expectations will keep getting higher and higher until there is no one to work bedside any more