Comments on: Nurse or pencil pusher?

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:13:35 +0000

I tell my students that when you become an RN you don’t have to stop there. Get an advanced degree in an area of nursing specialty and you get treated with more respect and better job duties. Nurses deserve so much more respect then we are given.

By: Rachael

Rachael — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:38:15 +0000

I totally agree! The first time I had to do a chart review, I noticed just how many non-sensical (to me anyway) things had to be charted by the poor nurses every 12 hours – change in fall risk status, for example. It was literally over 100 questions that had to be addressed in the computer on each patient, each shift. No wonder it’s hard to for the poor nurses to form relationships with the patients!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:11:45 +0000

Hospital nurses sit around on the computer charting most of the time. There is not any time spent with newly diagnosed diabetics, new mothers who need help with breastfeeding or education given to the new dialysis patient. Instead, nurses feverishly spend their time trying to make things look good on paper. As a discharge planner (case manager), I found out just how much patients did not know just prior to their discharge! Why can’t documentation be minimized so that the nurse can get back to the bedside? Note: even my old personal physician does not look at me anymore when I go in for a checkup or problem. Instead, he sits there with a laptop in front of him, typing away! This has got to stop!!! Any suggestions?

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By: @nursejennifer

@nursejennifer — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:40:45 +0000

Hell, you ought see the Medicaid forms the soca have to fill out EVERY 90 days for medical equipment & the xtra documumentation they have to restate 20x over. I’m with u Wendy, I 100% agree that documentation is a must, but documenting the same thing 3 different times on 3 different forms is an absolute take away from patient care! That pisses me off too!!. I wonder if my feathers will EVER DEPUFF lol