LONGWOOD, FL-While skyrocketing costs plague the American healthcare system, another crisis within the system goes quietly unnoticed by many-namely, the shortage of nurses. The very systems set in place to protect patients are actually hurting them by enslaving bedside providers to documentation and not the actual care of the patient. This nursing shortage will continue to rage until these systems are held accountable to the patients they claim to serve. A Good Day in Hell: The Flatlining of Nurses Across America - What Will It Take to Resuscitate Our Health Care System? (paperback, 978-1-60477-172-5) by Kellyann Curnayn, RN, BSN, gives a very unadulterated version of the diseased processes costing hospitals millions. The author hopes that every hospital employee in the world will have a reawakened call to service and to the problems that exist within the inpatient setting.
What are some of the problems that plague our health care system? Consultants continue to place the Band-aid on the blown artery while inpatient staff have surrendered to apathy, holding to the belief the system cannot be changed. Caring for the patient is secondary to documenting that care. Who will determine the allocation of inpatient beds? Who looks out for the patient?
"The nursing shortage will require nurses across the nation to begin systematically breaking down processes and procedures that hinder more than they help," says Curnayn. "The nation cannot afford not to fix this problem, and the patients within the hospitals deserve more than the system gives them. Bedside healthcare providers are slaves to a system that will not allow them to do the very job they set out to do. The nursing shortage is a symptom of a much greater problem. Everyone is having the same problems across the US; the system is broken."
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2007