Posts Tagged: care

The Nursing Care Economy

“All I want is a blanket.” This was what I thought to myself while lying on a stretcher in pain at 3 am in an Emergency Room (ER) last year. I looked around at the nurses, doctors, and technicians with hopes one would make eye contact with me and say, “Do you need something?” After… Read more

Why aren’t nurses part of the conversation?

A conversation a few months ago led me to wonder (and I should have asked), ‘why isn’t a nurse part of this meeting’?   At that time, I was speaking with a physician and a project director about bedside nursing solutions using mobile to address existing workflow challenges. I realized toward the end of the… Read more