Excellent ad. More power to them. Sad that they come with these ads, while the AMA does jack squat on this issue.
Because physicians are supposed to be the leaders of healthcare teams. Why are our national organizations not putting out anything?
Bc the AMA is the first to sell out. Exhibit A: lending their endorsement of Obamacare.
I've written off the AMA as useful for anything. I was referring to ACP or other specialty organizatikns
Bc medical specialty societies have small budgets. That being said, the ACP is directly in bed with the tenets of Obamacare, unlike other specialty societies.
Watch the entire ad, doctors are mentioned several times as well, including also by the nurse. Don't go at it from the NP angle (which this commercial has nothing to do with). This commercial is quite benign.
Hospitals are increasingly using LPNs and nurses aides and in the OR, surgical techs, instead of 4 year degreed RNs.
WTF! Is it bc of the nursing shortage? Or is that just a contrived shortage? I know Vanderbilt recently made news as well: http://www.wsmv.com/story/23364976/vanderbilt-medical-center-to-have-nurses-cleaning-up. They have a lot of ridiculous documenting to do as well.
And that's still the norm. However, none of the community hospitals I operate at has scrub "nurses" they are all techs. In some states, LPNs are administering medsIVF, doing wound care and home health. Small stuff to be sure, but with potential for error.
So I've watched this ad, again and again. Excellently constructed on so many levels both for the layman and for those who keep up with and are knowledgeable about healthcare (health insurance, Watson, etc.). They got more than their money's worth for that ad. The impact is powerful. Oh, and I wanted to punch the hospital administrator and the hippie in the face.
Most of the RNs I know actually want to do a good job - esp. MICU nurses. You can bet if hospitals treat nurses like ****, it gets all over allnurses.com and so no one wants to go there, hence the necessity for signing bonuses. The good hospitals don't need signing bonuses, bc nurses WANT to work there.
It's ridiculous. Not sure if you've ever read the Gomer blog but they are always making fun of nurses documenting on documenting. Every month there's something extra I have to document. And if a patient develops an HAI we get scrutinized based on our documentation down to if a bath was performed on our shift, how often foley care was done, etc. I am all for reducing HAIs but if a patient has diarrhea and is squirmy with a foley in they are high risk for a UTI even with me in there cleaning every hour. If it's not documented that then it didn't happen.
Who's responsible for creating these insane documentation rules for nurses?
Exactly. I've never met a nurse worth her salt that didn't want to be at the bedside taking care of patents and working as a member of the team.
People no longer practicing bedside nursing.
That's a shame that they forgot what nursing is really about.
They are definitely powerful tools. I'm actually really excited about our pumps being integrated to the computer system. Less human error and better I/O documentation and a truer picture of how meds are being titrated.
I think the main reason is to discourage duplicate documentation. The old school nurses would create a free text form and fill out the regular assessment. I still prefer my paper assessment but I've only ever worked on two comp systems. So there might be some out there that are awesome.
You brought it up. I think I took issue with the phrasing. Perhaps I read too much into it.
