There are many good points made in this article with effective solutions to a degree. Nursing is a challenging field because we are expected to excel in every aspect of the job, knowing skills, communication with patients and providers, getting drinks, snacks and calling family for updates. It can be very overwhelming to complete all of these tasks for 6-8 patients a day and find time to chart on the patients in an effective manner. I do understand there needs to be compassion and communication along with effective skills and knowledge, but it can be challenging to complete effectively. I really agree with liaison staff however many hospitals don’t want to spend money on more positions and having volunteers is a wonderful idea. They are there because they genuinely love the job. We have volunteers where I work, and they are truly such a blessing to have. They help in more ways than they understand with getting blankets and snacks, sitting with patients who just want someone to listen, communicating surgery updates and taking specimens to lab is just a few things that our volunteers do to help ensure we can perform the best patient care possible.
This was a good article. What I took away from it is that patients want their nurse to be able to have time to show care, compassion, and have time to have meaningful conversations that are not rushed. Many nurses go into nursing because the art of nursing is intuitive for most. They have a desire to help people live a healthy life. EBP is important and helps nurses develop skills and protocols that need to be learned to help prevent hospital acquired infections.
What I also took away from this article is that the author talked about that it is the nurse’s responsibility to make sure they don’t loose the art of nursing skills, implement EBP and make these changes themselves. The article mentioned working with IT to take away unnecessary charting application forms. Does the nurse call themselves or is this collaborative where the nurse manager should call?
I think that this raises the issue that nurses are not supported by their employer, they are expected to do all that is acquired to incorporate the art of nursing and EBP without anything else changing. More and more charting responsibilities and policy changes are put into place everyday that increases the nurses work load but nothing is done to decrease patient ratios or acknowledge the shortage of nurses. It’s not so much shortages as hospitals just don’t hire enough to support the art of nursing. Practicing evidence based interventions could lead to poor outcomes if nurses do not have the time to properly learn them.
My take away was that it is the nurses responsibility to make sure they don’t loose the skill of the Art of Nursing while adhering to EBP guidelines. There wasn’t any discussion how employers can help so nurses can give better patient care.
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