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What would you change about nursing or the healthcare system if you could?
Do a time-management study on actual nurses...focus on how much time they must waste on duplicate charting, getting food trays sent, emptying trash, changing beds...and DO SOMETHING about it.
Most of us don't mind doing nursing work-we mind all the extra stuff that PREVENTS us from doing it.
Also, I may be in a minority on this but I like 8-hour days, not 12 hours.
Is this a homework question???? What do you think needs to be changed? I agree with
♪♫ in my ♥ 1) Mandated (safe) ratios everywhere2) Substantial budget authority for a committee from each floor to ensure proper equipment
3) Some autonomy with simple things like certain labs/meds
4) A politically safe process to challenge physicians overuse of needless tests
I would simplify everything. I would promote more Wellness programs to help keep the population healthy and prevent diseases/illnesses from occuring before they start. I would eliminate Nursing Homes and have people properly taken care of IN THEIR HOMES where they belong if feasible. And I am a LTC nurse. PAPERWORK would be severely eliminated step by step and promote more patient interaction between healthcare professionals and their patients. Encourage More alternative methods such as massage, relaxation techniques, briofeed back as a added addition to getting and keeping well. COMMUNICATION would be my ulimate goal correcting. I find communication between health care professionals sometimes dangerous due to language barriers and other numerous interuptions when dealing with patients and families. Humans dont need to be more stressed out during a very stressful event already, I find doctors offices cold, unwelcoming, too fast paced, incredibly stressful with tvs blaring news stories/or day courts. NO TVS in doctors offices. I have too much to mention here..
DoeRN
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Love this! It would cut down on a lot of the nonsense we have to endure.
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