Encouraging Nurses

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Encouraging nurses to maintain a watchful eye on the current on health care policies and trends that may affect practice presents a challenge to the profession. As the workload for the average nurse increases it becomes difficult to dedicate time to policies. However, this is a fault that many must overcome and put forth effort as not being current on trends and policies may result missing a change leading to poor outcomes and patient harm. Facilities may have committees or groups that focus keeping up with current trends then must rely on the group to disperse information to the rest of the staff. Nurses that continually keep surveillance on the community and legislative changes bridge the gap between patient and the needs of the community

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