The ONE thing that will make your nursing life easier

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Hi everyone,

This is a broad question to all of us:

What is that ONE thing that will make your nursing life easier?

This could mean many things like:

- Is there something you wish you discovered earlier in your career that would have made nursing easier?

- Is there something you wish existed that will make nursing easier?

- Is there something that you'd like to eliminate? eg. pain points

Specializes in Cardiac, Transplant, Intermediate Care.

I like the above suggestion "managers with floor experience".

In my own world, it would be nice to have support staff that actually do what they were hired to do, so I do not have to do their job in addition to mine.

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1. More nursing assistants scheduled per shift, have them start 1 hour earlier than the nurses and allow them to do more tasks to give the nurses more time to be nurses!! That is how it was when I was a nursing assistant a few years ago at a different facility.

2. Less charting for sure!!

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Always the same, long before rising acuities and *customer service*, living within a budget based on part time wages.

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/LDRP/Ortho ASC.
A standing order for ativan.

How about an Ativan diffuser in every pt

room and waiting area.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

CNAs that actually do their jobs.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Visiting hours. :)

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.
Visiting hours. :)

ENFORCED visiting hours :))

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Appropriate staffing FOR SURE!!!!!

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
Hi everyone,

This is a broad question to all of us:

What is that ONE thing that will make your nursing life easier?

This could mean many things like:

- Is there something you wish you discovered earlier in your career that would have made nursing easier?

- Is there something you wish existed that will make nursing easier?

- Is there something that you'd like to eliminate? eg. pain points

An LTC admin who understands that 1 RN cannot take care of 28+ patients with just 2 CNAs and do 5 admits without a breakdown in resident safety.

Just Saying

Hppy

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Patients who don't give us a hard time when we are giving them their treatments. Example, a patient is receiving IV antibiotics Q4H for osteomyelitis and complains when we come in every 4 hours. Sometimes they act like we are pests when we're trying to help! ahhhh

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Is OP asking for wish list or realistic responses?

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- Is there something you wish you discovered earlier in your career that would have made nursing easier?

Don't sweat the small stuff. Learn to delegate and BE OK WITH THAT! Learn your co-workers may or may not be your friend. And again, be ok with that. I have some co-workers that have become lifelong friends and I have some that I am pleasant to at work and will most likely never talk to again once we leave the job.

- Is there something you wish existed that will make nursing easier?

Non-disappearing pens. :) An easier way to chart.

- Is there something that you'd like to eliminate? eg. pain points

Many, many things. Having just come from psych, I would like to eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness - make a more seamless transition from ER care to psych treatment. Beyond that, customer satisfaction surveys (UGH!).

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