As nurses, we are the front line of patient safety. These days, hospitals are run as corporations and tend to put profits ahead of patients.  We need to change this.  People come first! Because hospitals are now run like businesses, productivity experts and personnel who are not nurses, ask us to do so much more with less.  Administration is squeezing nurses to put their patients’ lives at risk and their licenses on the line. I am all for mandatory nurse patient ratios.  While I think it … [Read more...]

No one ever has become a nurse so that they can sit to document all the care they provided to their patients.  Yet, documentation is one of the most important parts of our practice.  As much as any of you may dislike documentation, it serves a very important purpose to protect your license and your livelihood as well as protecting you if a medical malpractice claim should arise. One thing nurses seldom realize is that when they late chart or enter something in a record which is not timed, an … [Read more...]