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What does it take to be an effective and efficient nurse?

I am asking this question to ensure before going to nursing school I understand good workflow for nursing.

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The best hospitals have standard work for common nursing duties (exact tasks to be done in an exact sequence paced to the speed of the average nurse. This is essentially best practice, designed so all on the care team have predictability as to what will happen and when, so patient care can be done with high quality, a minimum of wastefulness, and much coordination between roles. I urge you to look for jobs that encourage nurses to identify wastefulness in their processes, and to then suggest small experiments of change to improve the processes and reduce that wastefulness. When each nurse or other care provider tries to do "it" their own way, you lose the coordination and optimal quality.
The wastes in healthcare are transporting things, excess inventory, motion (walking, searching...), waiting, overproduction, over processing, and defects (a deviation from standards or error that adversely affects others. Consciously looking to identify these wastes and trying things that are likely to reduce the wastes is tried and true, giving nurses and others more time to actually care for patients and less time running around trying to care for patients.
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