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10 Strategies to Improve Your Nursing Care

©2003 Ed4Nurses, Inc.

10 Strategies to Improve your Nursing Care

80% of nurses surveyed point to:

* Understaffing

•

Lack of time to provide good care

as the larg est obstacles that they have to face on a daily basis.

Clearly nurses need strategies to deal with these issues and maintain

quality in nursing care. The following list of strategies is currently being

implemented by nurses all over the US.

1.

Increase your Knowledgebase

2.

Look for "Red Flags"

3.

Use a "Road Map"

4.

Focus your Assessment

5.

Use Clinical Tools

6.

Use your Resources Effectively

7.

Organize

8.

Let Technology Help

9.

Implement Better Interventions

10.

Prevent Complications

The 10 strategies, when implemented in whole or in part, can have a

dramatic impact on your practice. Try implementing them one at a time and

you too will feel more confident and see improvements in your patient care.

The day after your seminar, I found one of your “Red Flags” in my

patient. He was tachycardic and was later found to have a pulmonary

embolism. –JJ, RN.

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