Sunday, March 17, 2013

Nurses and Doctors And The Hospital Hierarchy

Healing The Hospital Hierarchy by Theresa Brown.  Opinionator.  The New York Times.  March 16, 2013.

A couple of key sentences from this oncology nurse:  "Modern health care is complex, highly technical and dangerous and the lack of flexible, dynamic protocols to facilitate communication along the medical hierarchy can be deadly."  "Doctors and nurses are trained differently and our sense of priorities can conflict."  How communications and conflicting perspectives can be harnessed effectively in modern healthcare is the focus of this article.

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