Where is the nurse?

[GLORIAmunchkin72]

That's is the question a lot of residents are asking. Unfortunately the answer is the nurse is buried under tons of paper work...sad present state of affairs or do you call it modern nursing?

[RN1989]

Both! Healthcare is in sad shape and getting worse. The paperwork has increased to make it LOOK like we are monitoring everything to prevent errors when in actuality, we have less time to prevent errors because we are filling out paperwork for every regulatory agency on the planet!

[GLORIAmunchkin72]

SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE AND SOON! The residents pay the price for all this paper work however necessary they are. Isn't an oxymoron to say I have very little time to do patient care 'because I have paper work?'

[snowfreeze, BSN, RN]

I work in a facility with computer charting, I do 'real time' charting so they see when I actually do get to all my patients. I wish we could all do that. The fact that I dont get to see patient #4 on a telelmetry unit until 11:15am shows management that the acuity is very high. they can track that I was giving cardiac meds and starting drips on another patient during that time. My in time on the computer is trackable so I use this to show management what my list acuity is for real. there are computers in each room so I log on when I go into a patients room.