For the Nurses

[JennyMominRI]

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I'm baffled. Of course I had to look to see the thread you were talking about b/c I didn't recall it was about nursing bashing. It just seemed that some felt compelled to come and defend the nursing profession, but the original topic was not specifically about that.

To clarify again,because you may not have seen it..This thread was not because I felt the other thread was bashing. It was a respnse to Fiona,talking about how tough nursing can be and also goes back to the years of watching my sister work as an RN

 

[babiesX2]

I am already having a rough week, and don't need to hear how fat and lazy the general public thinks I am.

Once again, thank you! It is patients like you who motivate me to continue on in nursing. Despite the rough nights, I really do love taking care of others.

I had to get off nights. The unit I was working on was giving us 8 and 9 patients at the beginning of shift and we were picking up admits all night! Days were having 5 to 6 patients per shift. They stopped staffing us with agency at night "to save money." Well, they had to go back to staffing agency because most of us night shifters QUIT! I couldn't keep up the pace they were expecting and add on top the cranky charge nurses who like to belittle everyone (those 2 are the only ones who stayed). Luckily, the nursery/peds unit director called me and offered me a position up there! I jumped on it and have been very happy taking care of the precious new babies and their happy mommies!

 

[jekajekalynn]

Thank You.

I'm not an RN YET (I just got admited into next falls program! ). I read that thread , and all I could think was "don't judge lest ye be judged."


I should use that redundent logic next time I see a first grade teacher. I will challenge her on why she dosen't have a working knowledge of advanced nuclear physics!! Well, she IS a teacher isn't she?!

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

Thanks to Jenny and everyone else. Being a nurse for close to 15 years, it always brings a smile to my face when someone says "thank you". You don't hear it too often.
The job is hard, often thankless, far from glamorous, doesn't pay as well as it should and I spend lots of holidays with my co-workers....but there is absolutely nothing else I'd rather be doing.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I never indicated it was "bashing" nurses! Jeesh. I just found it sad that it is expected that nurses all be slender because of what we do for a living. I think quality of care should be the important thing, not what size we are. That's all I was saying. If you read that thread, I did post on it & said I realized that the tone of the OP was not to insult nurses...once I read through it & the reponses.

Let me rephrase...when I figured out the thread--the thread was about health care workers.


Most nurses I have interacted with have been phenomenal. My worst bedside manner was with a doctor and not a nurse. And he should have reconsidered his profession. He was impatient..not all too fond of women--and he was an Ob/Gyn. Not exactly the profession you would choose if you were impatient...or didn't want female patients.

 

[AC7179]

When my grandmother was so sick the nurses were so, so, very kind.
Enough that I still remember it five years later.
Thank you, nurses, for all that you do.

 

[Pigeon]

My worst bedside manner was with a doctor and not a nurse. And he should have reconsidered his profession. He was impatient..not all too fond of women--and he was an Ob/Gyn.

I had the world's worst reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Jerk. He would pointedly ignore any questions I asked. Finally his nurse told me quietly one day that I should bring my husband along to all my appointments because Dr. Jerk "doesn't deal well with women." You would think that they would have covered the part about his patients' gender in med school.

 

[Annie68]

My worst bedside manner was with a doctor and not a nurse. And he should have reconsidered his profession.

We have quite a few Dr.'s like that. There is an Oncologist who we all hate (we lovingly refer to him as Dr. "Jerk"...using a 3 letter word instead), he will walk in & just announce to the patient that they have cancer very matter of factly. No compassion whatsoever, cold as ice. (The other Dr.'s will try to have family present or, if family is unavailable, will grab a nurse to come in and sit with both he/she & the patient.) Dr. "Jerk" rattles off treatment options & gets irritated when the patient can't decided right then & there which course to take. There have been day shift nurses who have gotten in screaming matches with him about it , and administration always agrees that his bedside manner is horrible. Yet they do nothing about it . When we do have snacks/goodies on the floor, we tell the Internal Med Dr.'s and surgeons that we will only share if they promise not to consult him! There are some wonderful Dr.'s who aren't the most personable, they come off crabby but are worth it because they are dedicated to their patients. This guy isn't one of them though.

 

[jennobrn01]

Jenny, thank you very much!

Please fellow nurses check out The Center for Nursing Advocacy. We need to band together to increase awareness of who we are and what we do.


this is some of the gang i work with (ob nurses). amazing, beautiful women. (that's me in the back second from left)