Modern Healthcare January 20, 2023
A Google Images search of “nurses” displays rows of stock photos showing medical professionals having meaningful interactions with patients. The nurses in these images lean over elderly patients’ bedsides and walk down hospital hallways holding pediatric patients’ hands. In the media and the collective imagination, nursing is a relationship-oriented, physical job, so it’s jarring to learn that more than half (56%) of a front-line worker’s time is spent accessing and updating patient records, according to a recent survey by the tech firm SOTI.
The chasm between perception of the nurse’s role and reality can lead to...
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