Nursing
plans dead April 26, 2020 -- A positive side effect of the coronavirus pandemic is the forced streamlining of healthcare procedures. Nurses in acute care facilities are permitted to omit the redundant and largely pointless step of creating nursing care plans. It's about time! These were largely duplicative of physician's orders. No one ever reads them. Nursing students are required to write them endlessly though it is well understood that the exercise is a waste of time. See, for example, Death to Nursing Care Plans! in the American Journal of Nursing. The entire industry needs to relinquish this obsolete practice. Thank the virus for rubbing our noses in the obvious. Go nurses. Go streamlined workflows! |
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Dan Keller's Nursing, Health Policy & Healthcare Technology Blog
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798