From Deseret News archives:
Many nursing duties delayed or skipped
Providing medicines within one hour of the correct time.
Helping weak or disabled patients go to the restroom and promptly cleaning those who soil themselves.
Making sure patients have adequate pain relief.
Doing thorough evaluations and follow-up checks on all patients, especially listening to critical lung and heart sounds.
Helping patients who require feeding when no aides are available.
Checking intravenous lines for leaks or skin damage.
Giving baths and other hygiene care.
Comforting distraught, lonely patients.
Teaching patients and their family how to deal with an illness when they go home.
Helping hospital staff plan follow-up treatment or home care.
Sources: AP interviews, AFT Healthcare union survey of nurses.
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