3 - Non-Nursing Tasks
At one time, nurses were expected to perform housekeeping and other non-nursing tasks – today these highly skilled professionals should be better utilized.
Nursing is a profession in which it can look like the task is the job.
Not so – the nurse who is turning a bed-ridden patient is also assessing skin color, muscle strength and range of motion, as well as whether the patient is alert enough to follow instructions.
Cognitive skills, along with critical thinking, are often the most important aspects of a nurse’s job.
However, once the assessment has been completed, someone else could handling the routine of turning the patient for the rest of the shift.
Bog that nurse down so he or she can’t think, by forcing on tasks someone with fewer skills can handle and the nurse gets frustrated.
The nurse may also be so distracted that patients suffer because there are too many non-nursing tasks to do.
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