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more than 25 percent of a patient’s encounter with us is spent on paperwork as opposed to direct patient care.
Nurses at the front line of acute care also experience inadequate time to address both the patients’ medical needs, which they are trained to do, and their social needs, which they cannot avoid. A veteran pediatrics nurse (ID 21) in Boston described taxing interactions with drug-addicted mothers, who become her patients when their babies are born a
... See moreThis growth was fueled first by the improvement in medical education, then by an enormous expansion of hospital beds, and finally by major funding for the Medicare and Medicaid programs.