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Innovate Around Barriers: 5 Benefits to Embracing the Change in Nursing
The change is relentless: we learn, we adapt, we evolve.
The shifts in healthcare are like new admissions: they’re always coming.
If you can’t roll with the changes that inevitably arrive then the feeling of overwhelm will suffocate you. Nurses are the greatest innovators. “Learn as you go” is constantly echoed from the seasoned veterans to the newest arrivals.
One ten-minute in-service is enough, right? Nurses don’t have more than ten minutes to spend away from their patients. And they certainly won’t be spotted on the unit on a day off. So, ten minutes is it- you have ten minutes to adapt to the change.
Ready… set… go!
Transformation can be astonishing.
It has led us to where we are today; lives are being lived longer than ever, rare diseases are being unearthed, and pharmaceuticals are spilling over medication cups.
Here are the top 5 advances I’ve come to appreciate along my 14-year journey in nursing:
1. Electronic charting
Am I a dinosaur? No. I’ve been a nurse for fourteen years. It’s hard to believe I was part of the cohort that worked with paper charting.
