Nurses Cutting Corners In Patient Care

This topic is about nurses cutting corners in patient care. Nurses ignore basic processes, procedures and evidenced-based practices that are in place to keep the patient safe. These common practices cause:
• Partial or complete omission of patient care
• Delays in providing care
• Failure to do things correctly
Areas that nurses tend to cut corners are in:
• Patient assessment
• Essential nursing care
• Care of CVCs
• Medications
Some adverse outcomes due to the shortcuts taken by nurses are:
• Nosocomial infections
• Nurse-reported medication errors
• Patient falls
• Pressure ulcers
• Poor patient satisfaction
Nurses are there to keep patient safe and to give the best care possible. Hospitals could help by increasing staff to decrease workload