Overcoming Roadblocks in Nursing
Nurses have always being involved in clinical decision making. They are, however, being cast into more active decision making by other members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team and policymakers (Thompson et al., 2004). This paper will describe the decision making process with regards to whether a medical-surgical unit should be expanded to enable the unit take on step down patients from the neuro intensive care unit (ICU). The paper will also explore the barriers to the proposed change and ways of overcoming these barriers.
The conventional decision-making process would be followed in deciding whether to expand the medical-surgical unit ...