RN satisfaction survey promotes positive change
HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, October 1, 2008
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Operating room (OR) nurses at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE, were having trouble finding time for a hot meal. In fact, nearly 40% of them reported not being able to sit down for lunch without a patient interrupting.
“If we have nurses that are missing lunch breaks and not eating, then they are frazzled when they get back into the patient’s room, and they are going to be more prone [to] making mistakes,” says Daryl W. Miller, BSN, RN, senior director of perioperative services at Nemours. “If our employees are feeling nurtured, cared about, and provided for, they in turn will transcribe that into good-quality care for the patient.”
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