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To: Earthdweller

Amen... I'm going to be a nurse aide and I've heard horror stories up and down about aides having 19 patients at a time. Plus talking to nurses, some say they think all their RN degree got them was a promoting to glorified paper pusher. Sometimes I wonder if there should be a special job assigned to filling out all the paperwork for nurses so they can go do their jobs.


18 posted on 12/12/2004 10:36:31 AM PST by cyborg (http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/flamelily.html)
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To: cyborg
Question: How long does it take a nurse to give a pill?

Answer: Fifty minutes. Five to give it and 45 minutes to document it.

26 posted on 12/12/2004 10:44:48 AM PST by ARridgerunner
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To: cyborg
Sometimes I wonder if there should be a special job assigned to filling out all the paperwork for nurses so they can go do their jobs.

Hospital management and lawyers have made documentation by voice recognition equipment very difficult to implement but it is the most important thing we could do to improve patient care.

43 posted on 12/12/2004 11:53:12 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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