10 Worst Time Wasters at Work

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Ok, so I read the article at home, on my own time. The "nurses" the article is talking about must not be providing much patient care - EVER! They must be managers. Having been an educator and manager, I have seen all 10 things apply to some co-workers. I do work in a very large tertiary care & teaching system, so we do use instant messaging to get hold of and notify doctors/residents and management staff of things that need immediate attention - critical labs that need reporting and orders, patients wanting to leave AMA, and to order meal trays for our patients. Because of our size we do use email to disseminate information to staff so some people do get side tracked for a moment and open personal messages. As for meetings, time gaps between meetings, etc., if it can't be handled by email we will do video conferencing (Skype) until there is a need for a big, face-to-face meeting. I would have to say, it appears someone at Nursing Link read a similar article in a business magazine, had a deadline to turn in an article and so they changed some words and put "nurses" in there instead of bankers/computer programmers/Congressmen.

While I am sure that some of these 'helpful hints' might be applicable within some job arenas, they don't seem to be related whatsoever to the clinical/bedside nursing arena. This article sounds like it's more geared to office workers, managers, and people who are trying to organize their personal lives. I'm wondering who wrote this article and, moreso, who sits on the committee at Nursing Link and screens the articles before they are approved for publication. I am in agreement with almost every comment and sentiment made thus far. This article is light years away from what really goes on with patient care in the hospital. How can we look to you (Nursing Link) for up-to-date professional information and guidance when your perspective is so polarized from the professoinal climate of those who are reading your material? I think that a reality check is needed within your staff.... stat!

I don't have time to do any of these things at work. I work at a hospital and the hospital has blocked websites like facebook, perhaps these other companies should do the same for their employees. In a time where jobs are hard to come by I don't understand why people would slack off by surfing the web as this article suggests. I find this article offensive and not applicable to nursing.

Ditto previous comments - general article not applicable to nursing. Misleading title - This ARTICLE wasted my time - perhaps the number 1 item on time wasters should be listed as looking at this site!

This is the worst article I have read on this website, I can't believe it was even posted, 1 hour break??? I'm lucky if I take my 30min lunch break, I didn't know people still instant messaged, this whole article was the time waster on my day off.

What is the editor smoking? Lately I've worked in a Cardiology office and an ED. Bathroom breaks were hard to get let alone a full 30min lunch break. I found it impossible to keep up with hospital emails. Pt care comes first.

Most of the time I agree-we don't have time -not on days or nights to get on and instant message-but once in a while have seen especially among younger crowd-and some olderies like me where on night when patients are actually settled-time is spent in blocks looking at concerts,movies,shopping-have seen it and no I am sure not perfect myself