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Monday, December 18, 2006

Nurses cope with increasing job pressures

Nurses cope with increasing job pressures
In StarTribune.com Business
If you've noticed that hospital nurses seem distracted or stressed lately, it could be they're suffering from a newly diagnosed malady: "complexity compression." It's a condition largely blamed on growing paperwork and changing work rules, and it's showing up in hospitals around Minnesota and quite likely around the country. Besides the heavy workloads and the demands of ever-sicker patients, nurses talk about a confounding series of "improvements" such as form changes, procedure revisions and documentation demands.

 



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