Healthcare

Nurses spend time waiting for outgoing nurses to give report, causing idle time and inefficiency during shift handoffs.

A new graduate nurse on a med-surg/tele unit struggles to quickly access medication information and task schedules, resorting to a manual paper 'brain sheet' to supplement the EHR.

RN to BSN programs feel like a waste of time with irrelevant curriculum, but the user needs to complete one to advance in nursing education.

A med-surg nurse is required to write an end-of-shift summary for every patient, adding a burdensome documentation task without understanding its purpose, and feels it could unfairly impact performance evaluations.

Inpatient rehab staff struggle with scheduling patients' post-discharge follow-up appointments, often handling tasks that families will need to redo or coordinate themselves.

A new night-shift nurse needs to determine when to escalate abnormal lab results to the covering physician overnight, especially when they affect medications due during their shift.

A nurse is trying to decide between cath lab and cardiac diagnostics roles but is concerned about unpredictable call schedules and on-call burdens in cath lab.

Healthcare facilities lack visibility and a process to redistribute or resell unused sterile supplies from cancelled surgeries, leading to unnecessary waste and cost.

A new nurse is unsure of the correct procedure to correct inaccurate cardiac or neuro assessment charting in Epic after realizing the error early, before anyone else sees it, and is overwhelmed by the fear of the investigation seeing the erroneous entry even if she fixes it.

Healthcare workers frequently hit their heads on overhead operating room equipment, causing injury and frustration, with no comfortable protective headwear designed for use under scrub caps.

Emergency department staff must manually track down technicians to perform EKGs, causing delays in patient care.

Clinicians are burdened by documenting homebound status on every routine visit note, leading to excessive documentation workload.

A nurse working rotating 12-hour shifts struggles to manage personal life, meal prep, exercise, and home projects due to exhaustion and poor planning on days off.

Unit nurses expect wound nurses to perform all wound treatments for their patients, creating conflict and role confusion despite management addressing it.

Infusion nurses cannot find a patient who tolerates the manufacturer-recommended infusion rate for IVIg, forcing them to slow down rates significantly.