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

I'd loved to see management be in the trenches with us every now and again... to keep them in tune as to what we deal with day in and day out. This way, when more things get added to our plate, they'll know how it directly impacts us and our ability to balance all of that with pt care.

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Sorry, I can not agree with this at all. I've been an aide for 13 years and have worked with dozens of truly awesome cnas. I wish we were respected more (we are not that far off from what COTAs do).

Im sorry this is your experience, but if this is how you see the aides you work with may I suggest communicating your expections and encouraging growth?

For the aides out there... Thank you for all that you do! For my unit, our CNA's are AMAZING!!! We are so blessed to have them and tell them frequently how much they are appreciated :)

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Lol...I worked at a clinic where I couldn't even read a 2 letter word. Since the doctor uses a sheet that has a list of orders for his nurse I formatted the form so he almost have no reason to write it, just circle the order

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Specializes in Registered Nurse.

Patient Care versus Patient Satisfaction, Old School.

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Specializes in Med/Surg/ICU/Stepdown.

Adequate staffing. And by adequate, I mean as many nurses as it takes to make safe assignments that are acuity based.

A floor with criteria. Pick a patient population. We are not a step down. We are med/surg.

Ancillary staff (kitchen, housekeeping, maintenance, phlebotomy, imaging depts, etc) to do their jobs so that I can do mine. Or at least do their jobs to take unnecessary heat off me when I catch flack for their mistakes.

Managers not to hold "monthly meetings" during the 10 minutes before shift change report.

Cieling Hoyer lifts in every patient room. I hate wheeling around the old school one.

Compliant patients. Or really .. ANYONE who wants to get better and not find reasons to extend their stay in the hospital.

Reachable physicians. Did you or did you not agree to carry the pager when you took this "on call" shift?!

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Cieling Hoyer lifts in every patient room. I hate wheeling around the old school one.

at least you have one! our hospital "shares" 2 - they're housed on the ortho floor. and if you need it, you have to sign it out from the floor, and bring it back when you're done, cause another floor is probably waiting for it.

And this brings me to another item - equipment! we had a 7-footer and couldn't find a bed extender anywhere!

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I would like to meet the maker of the call light, Press Ganey and the Studer Group in a dark alley....

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Specializes in CMSRN, hospice.

More clinical time in nursing school. Like a looooooot more. Way more.

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Specializes in Surgery.

* Patient's families who are friendly, supportive, caring, and cooperative.

* Managers who lift nurses up instead tearing nurses down.

* Patients being accountable for their health. They should try to get better instead of fighting it and becoming angry with nurses for attempting to help.

* Basic respect and compassion, and empathy all around: to and from patients, families, management, and coworkers. I think if we treated one another as human beings capable of faults and on a wide spectrum of skills and learning we would all be happier and more effective at our jobs and lives.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

Educators that actually work the unit. The educators where I work now do not work any clinical time.

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Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.

The ONE thing that will make my nursing life easier? Keeping my 60 year old wisdom but with a 30 year old body. Oh, yeah!

OK this is only a wish.

Oh, and ceiling lifts in every room would be awesome.

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Specializes in ICU, trauma.

Wish my current hospital had a better communication system. My old facility used vocera and it made everything much easier!

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