Becker's Healthcare August 7, 2023
In most cases, “just a nurse” isn’t a welcomed phrase. But quite literally, today’s nurses want to get back to a place where they can actually focus on being nurses and providing patient care instead of being an “organizational sponge” that absorbs what often seems like an infinite number of tasks, Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, RN, wrote in an Aug. 3 opinion piece published in nurse.org.
Dr. Boston-Leary is the director of nursing programs at the American Nurses Association and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore. Technology and the re-introduction of resource nurses, or the “extra pair of hand” roles, she writes, are two critical ways to better support nurses with responsibilities such...
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