Words from Chris Schulman, AACN President
Posted almost 8 years ago by Jessica Panfil
"A good nurse is a paranoid nurse, constantly on the alert to catch a change in patient status or perpetually anticipating the worst possible thing that can happen to their patient. These activities keep a nurse from being complacent and, hopefully, go a long way toward preventing those dreaded 'clinical surprises.' "
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I like the word vigilant in place of paranoid. "Paranoid" sounds out of control almost psychiatrically unstable. As a good nurse I am not paranoid.
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