Nurse, Interrupted

A pretty interesting video from Beth Boynton RN on what I call status interrupticus, the incessant and often needless interruptions nurses deal with when performing duties requiring critical thinking and judgement. It’s fairly well known, for example, at among nurses anyway, that many if not most med errors are attributable to nurses being distracted; I myself, during a code or trauma have sometimes reached for the wrong drug. In any case Beth nicely relates the problem to larger issues of healthy work places, meaningful nursing and professionalism. Worth a look.

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