SMARTER THAN SOAP by Gabriel Valjan

Okay – time toconfess…those “New Year Resolutions” you made way back in January…how well haveyou done?

 

S – Specific

M – Measurable

A – Attainable

R – Relevant

T – Timely

 

These letters are an acronym taught to nursing students forsetting goals, whether it is for themselves or for patients in the workplace.The Irony with the capital I is there is seldom a place within clinicaldocumentation for it, and no nurse has the time on the floor to create one.There is a lot of talk in scho...