Nurses should spend less time helping patients and more time ordering bandages


Crop of an oil painting. The Agnew Clinic (or The Clinic of Dr. Agnew) an 1889 oil painting by American artist Thomas Eakins. It shows three male doctors operating on a patient. A female nurse looks on.

I was speaking to the absolute epitome of a pub bore. Flapping his jaws about how the problem with the NHS was too many admin staff doing absolutely nothing. "Quite right!" I said, feverishly agreeing with his red-faced ranting, "Nurses should spend less time helping patients and more time ordering bandages!" He paused, slightly, as the gears in his brain started grinding. "Well, no, not like that. Obviously." I agreed again, "Too true. Doctors shouldn't be installing computers either. They…

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