From all the nurses I know, it's the focus on and feeding of The Beast--the monstrous, slow, patched-together, too-complicated computer system with computerized charting, ordering, and all the malpractice/negligence possibilities these bring--that suck attention and resources away from patient care, which is what they went into nursing for in the first place. It is truly a disgrace to the profession and to the suffering patient and relatives watching.
It's only going to get worse, as hospitals change and hot-wire in new program modules into cranky old systems, and none of the hospitals seem to have the same software. Nurses looking for a different job are faced with months of orientation/training/probationary status, just to learn and tame The Beast, making it maddening and unstable for one's income to think of getting a different job that is better for their own sanity and quality of life.
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