The ONE thing that will make your nursing life easier

[forumjunkie]

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

[forumjunkie]

The responses can be both wishes or real experiences :) Maybe we can tag them as wish or real.

Wish: As an OR nurse, a paging/request system to call for instrument from the supply department while we are on a case so I don't have to leave my scrub nurse alone in the room

Wish: A better system for counting consumables/instruments

[whichone'spink, BSN, RN]

The ability to use discretion and not have to be told what to do all the time.

[springchick1, ADN, RN]

Wish: As an OR nurse, a paging/request system to call for instrument from the supply department while we are on a case so I don't have to leave my scrub nurse alone in the room

We have that but doesn't work as well as you think.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Wish: As an OR nurse, a paging/request system to call for instrument from the supply department while we are on a case so I don't have to leave my scrub nurse alone in the room

We have that but doesn't work as well as you think.

Have that too, direct number for a transporter to get what we need as well as a level of urgency- 1 (stat- patient on table and can't proceed), 2- (urgent, need within 10 minutes), 3 (non-urgent- patient not yet in room). We're lucky if we get level 1 urgency supplies within 15 minutes.

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

1) Adequate staffing

2) Nursing only. (Not housekeeping, food service, portering or any miscellaneous jobs)

3) Less charting

[vampiregirl, BSN, RN]

Enough time and resources to truly provide patient-centered care.

[dream'n, BSN, RN]

Staffing to acuity

[TriciaJ, RN]

Managers with floor experience. Must have been in the trenches. Go away, MBA RNs! and alphabet soup RNs

Managers who can manage.

I miss "The Head Nurse".

Also, always Danskos. They have saved my back.

More $$$ is a plus, too.

Everything but the Danskos. Gave me the worst plantar fasciitis. (Spellcheck keeps flagging this but I can't figure out my error.) But everything else - right on.

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Visiting hours.

We haven't enforced visiting hours for a decade.

[ambobam]

Doctors that write like humans instead of chimpanzees...

[Palliative Care, DNP]

For me it would just be choosing an alternate health care path years ago.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

Winning the lottery so I can quit my job.