Question: Strategies for Efficiency
In small groups, discuss some work routines carried out in healthcare organizations that seem to be inefficient. Could such routines or the time and motion involved to carry out a task be altered to improve efficiency without jeopardizing quality of care? Make a list of ways that nurses could work more efficiently. Do not limit your examination to only nursing procedures and routines, but examine the impact that other departments or the arrangement of the nurse's work area may have on preventing nurses from working more efficiently. Share your ideas with your peers.