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Sorry but pretty charts and political wins regarding terminology don't save lives or comfort patients. Nurses do that.
Until they START with safe staffing I am no longer interested in "Patient Focused Care", "Health care’s shifting paradigms", “Putting nurses in the driver’s seat”, "strategic partnerships", or other such "innovations".
My! What a lot of --well, to be nice--- hoo haa. Are they going to try to teach student nurses at the get go to work short staffed and like it? Is that what this is about? Until everyone realizes that all you need is adequate staffing levels for what your acuity is, it's all going to be smoke and mirrors to save money.
What a bunch of balony.. Fancy words from a bunch of bean counting nurses don't mean jack. The real issue (as far as my state) is safe pt to staff ratios. And no one in my state has championed this.. Not even our bon, if they have no one knows about it. If the usa today or some big news paper or times just interviewed your average run of the mill nurse who actually takes care of the pt's and not interview some behind the desk "bean countin" nurse or some research/education person, the public would know what nurses want. But they never ask the workin nurse nothin.
Funny word, bedside. Maybe when the word "bedside" appears in a project title, it indicates that those who got the grant want to control those at the bedside, but don't want to be there themselves. Those at bedside don't use the word "bedside." What's with all this obsessing with being at the bedside like it was an exotic remote country? Docs don't think there's anything wrong with bedside doctoring. What should I pay a mechanic who won't work carside? I need a hefty grant to research all this!
Funny word, bedside. Maybe when the word "bedside" appears in a project title, it indicates that those who got the grant want to control those at the bedside, but don't want to be there themselves. Those at bedside don't use the word "bedside." What's with all this obsessing with being at the bedside like it was an exotic remote country? Docs don't think there's anything wrong with bedside doctoring. What should I pay a mechanic who won't work carside? I need a hefty grant to research all this!
Interestingly these are the things that make me wonder WHY this is appropriate to maternity care. Women are mostly well and one could argue that they should even be referred to as "patients" at all. Amuses the crap outta me:uhoh3::uhoh3:
NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN
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fourteen new partnerships announced for
transforming care at the bedside
now, 14 new strategic partnerships between schools of nursing and major regional hospitals throughout the united states have been announced for the program. the partnerships will help future nurses learn how to identify opportunities for quality improvements that could enhance patient care, and teach them how to advocate for their implementation. nursing students will work with tcab teams at their partner hospitals to identify where change is needed, recommend and test potential solutions and determine if the innovations should be implemented. in so doing, the program provides a vital link between the classroom and the medical-surgical units in hospitals by helping nursing students understand how the time they spend working directly with patients affects the quality of care patients receive.
http://nursingsociety.org/rnl/current/departments/rnews_capsules.html