Someone let me know via email that this site is the primary Google hit for "Nursing Collaboration." I am appalled, considering my failure in this endeavor.
Earlier today, I attended a leadership meeting where we discussed how the new change-of-shift process was discussed. It really was a pep-rally of supporters for the verbal face-to-face report method.
I was very unpopular.
Everyone keeps citing research that shows how verbal reports are more effective than taped reports. Everything I can find is anecdotal, and has been written by old nurses no longer at the bedside. These are nurses that don't have email, who think blogs are weather phenomena, and whose VCR's perpetually flash "12:00." These are not new young nurses, who do most of their information gathering via non-face-to-face media, such as the internet. If you're a nurse, and can send me the PubMed PMID for some quantitative non-emotive research that says patients get better care with all the nurses tied up at the nurses' station for an hour two or three times a day, I challenge you to send that PMID to me.
Idiots.
Be Still My Heart! In a weird way, I felt guilty that the nursing profession utilizes the internet so poorly that this blog could get the most hits concerning a topic for which I have lost all faith. The words "nurse", "collaboration", and "leader" too often appear in close proximity to "stupid" and "crazy." I kept hoping someone out there who had something positive to say about nursing collaboration would get more hits. I now breathe a sigh of (admittedly sarcastic) relief.
By the way, nice blog. It's on my link bar if that's ok with you.
Posted by: Eric | December 06, 2004 at 09:10 AM
I just checked... You'll be happy to know that you have now fallen to second pace on google searching "nursing collaboration"
A grand Canyon university syllabus page has surpassed you...
Posted by: azbigjohn | December 05, 2004 at 11:35 PM