[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by john70t

GF was a nurse, and of the few times she vented it was disheartening.

Someone would always forget to stock the med cart, and the administrator who had the keys to the lock box had vanished.
Or, kitchen would make the wrong meal(restricted diet) and she'd be walking around the building trying to find someone who could fix it.
Nobody answered phones.
Schedule would get trashed as a result.

I suspect she spent 1-2 hours a day just trying to fix basic problems instead of patient care (i.e. a few minutes of compassion).

+1000
My wife says that since the advent of computer charting healthcare on her units has become worse, not better. Of course she would never outright tell her superiors that fact, even though it's common knowledge among the senior staff.