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The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital by Alexandra Robbins

Author:Alexandra Robbins [Robbins, Alexandra] , Date: May 27, 2015 ,Views: 251

The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital by Alexandra Robbins

Author:Alexandra Robbins [Robbins, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2015-04-13T22:00:00+00:00


Chapter 6

The Stepford Nurse:

How Hospitals Game the System for Patient “Satisfaction”

“The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient.”

—Code of Ethics for Nurses, Provision 3

“Hospitals tend to focus on what they get sued for. Hospitals used to have COWs: computers on wheels. A while ago, a nurse said, ‘What’s up with the COW in Two?’ Well, the patient in Room Two knew she was in Room Two and filed a lawsuit and won. So now hospitals call them WOWs: workstations on wheels.”

—a Washington, DC, ER nurse



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