The Most Crucial Half Hour at a Hospital: The Shift Change - Source the Wall Street Journal

Source: The wall Street Journal 

Hospitals are transforming the traditional way nurses change shifts to reduce the chance of errors and oversights in the transfer of information. A critical side effect: patients feel safe, included and satisfied.
Studies show that so-called bedside shift reports, with both nurses meeting in the presence of the patient during the handover, help nurses communicate better, not only with each other but with patients and their families. Studies show the approach helps reduce the number of patient falls and catch safety issues such as an incompatible blood transfusion and dangerous air bubbles that form in arteries.

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Nurses must know whats in the revised code of ethics to use it - Source Nurse.com

Source: Nurse.com

Every day, nurses face ethical challenges. The recently revised Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements provides a framework for addressing concerns inherent in the profession.
“The kinds of quandaries nurses face are broad and far reaching,” said Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN, a professor of nursing and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and the Anne and George L. Bunting professor of Clinical Ethics at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in Baltimore. “Because of their proximity to patients, they see in an intimate way the consequences of the therapies and often the suffering of their patients.”

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https://news.nurse.com/2015/10/19/nurses-must-know-whats-in-revised-code-of-ethics-to-use-it/

A nurse reflects on the privilage of caring for Dying patients - book title The Shift- source NPR.org

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Source: NPR news

Palliative care nurse Theresa Brown is healthy, and so are her loved ones, and yet, she feels keenly connected to death. "I have a deep awareness after working in oncology that fortunes can change on a dime," she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "Enjoy the good when you have it, because that really is a blessing."
Brown is the author of The Shift, which follows four patients during the course of a 12-hour shift in a hospital cancer ward. A former oncology nurse, Brown now provides patients with in-home, end-of-life care.

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http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/28/443468965/a-nurse-reflects-on-the-privilege-of-caring-for-dying-patients

War world 2 American nurse cadet - Source : WZZM13.com

Source: WZZM13

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) - It was World War II: a time in American history where everyone was needed to do their part.
Across the nation hospital staffing was reduced by 40% because so many were serving overseas.

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http://www.wzzm13.com/story/life/2015/10/20/worldwarnursecadetfrancispayneboltenact/74270038/

Philosophy and nursing Janet Holt

The mcdonaldization of nurses - source the sunstar

Source: Sunstar

QUOTING from the Penguin Dictionary of Sociology, the term ‘McDonaldization’ refers to a phenomenon of social and economic development with the application of scientific management theories and Fordism (a form of industrial economy based on mass production and mass marketing that was pioneered by Henry Ford in the manufacture and sale of cars) to the product of a simple range of items like hamburgers as in the creation of McDonald’s restaurants.
In an article published by sociologist Barbara Garson, she explained that the assembly-line employees of fast food chains need not ‘think’ because all they have to do is to follow a pre-set collection of protocols or standard operating procedures (SOP). Simply out, these bottom line employees (cashiers, kitchen staff and service crews) are task-oriented and whose expected actions are clearly defined in manuals and protocols in a flow chart manner.

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Hospital Red Blanket Problem - Source The New Work Times

 Source : The New Work Times

WHEN I saw my first red blanket as a young medical student, I thought little of it.

One morning, as I rushed around a hospital in California on my daily rounds, I spotted an old man who lay in bed beneath a scarlet cover, a sharp contrast to the white linens wrapped around the other patients. He looked unremarkable, and I assumed he brought the blanket from home. So I moved on. He wasn’t my patient, anyway.

That afternoon, I overheard a discussion about the patient between two physicians. Instead of identifying him in the usual manner — age, gender, medical problems — one of the doctors said, “This is a red blanket patient.”

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