Nurses and physicians writing on KevinMD about nursing: what a shift is like, staffing and ratios and the shortage, what nurses and physicians say about each other, the assaults and bullying nurses describe at work, and whether nurse practitioners should practice without physician supervision, argued on the site by both. Three maintained records draw on this archive: Nursing: what nurses and physicians say, in their own words, Scope of practice: what physicians, nurse practitioners, and PAs say, in their own words, and Violence against health care workers: what physicians and nurses say, in their own words.

In today’s health care environment, we are all driven to see more patients in less time and do more with less support. Obviously most of this is financially motivated — the delivery of medical care had unfortunately become more of a business than an art. As more physician groups are now owned by hospital systems, the “bean counters” and administrators are now …
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Doctors can learn from how nurses provide care