Friday, January 05, 2007

Nurses increasingly buried by paperwork, redundant duties

By Jennifer Booth Reed
Nurses belong with patients.That's like saying teachers belong with students and athletes belong with spectators.But, apparently, patient care is not where they've been spending most of their time. "People just got inundated with the paperwork," said Dr. Nelayda Fonte, a Lee Memorial trauma surgeon who's watched the role of nurses evolve over the years — and not for the better. "Nurses are no longer allowed to be nurses." Read more...

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