Nurses Rule!!! I wanted to be a nurse when I was a kid. I thought it was a job where you paid to love people all day. :shock:
I hope you stick with it, too! What GGL said make sa lot of sense and having read it I have to agree. We NEED good nurses!
I wanted to be a nurse, too. Somehow my parents were of the mind that I’d do better in cosmetology school. :rollseyes: I did and only ended up working for about 3 yrs.
that’s the best part of being a nurse IMHO. some of them are hard to love, like the sickle cellers who are used to the system and are drug seeking, but i so love them, too. imagine having to be in and out of the hospital from the time youre an infant with PAIN PAIN PAIN PAIN. i remember that when they treat me like crap and throw specimen cups at my head and try to control each and every move i make. they are the most challenging patient population, with the least amount of personal satisfaction, and they are the ones who need you and your love the most.
i do recommend this career despite it’s drawbacks. anyone who has thought about it, go for it! if you want to PM me, feel free. i love to talk about nursing.
My favorite patients are always the crankiest. There have been many times when, with just a little TLC, I’ve been able to mollify a patient who has frustrated everyone else. I always remember that in a hospital, everything has been taken away from these patients, their clothes, their schedule, their dignity. And I try to give a little of that control back to them. I encourage all my patients to tell me what to do and be demanding and to refuse care that they aren’t comfortable with.
And I have nurses and doctors mad with me all the time for doing that, too. It screws them up when patients refuse to comply with treatment recommendations. But you know what? The body belongs to the patient, and they get to do whatever they want with it. And instinct is instinct. You can’t learn it. You can learn things to enhance it, but when your gut says something is wrong, then something is wrong.
I don’t believe any patient is med-seeking, at least the way some people mean it. I prefer treatment-seeking. If a patient is asking for medication over and over and over, that means they have a need that is not being met, that needs treatment. I hate the words med-seeking.
My favorite patients are always the crankiest. There have been many times when, with just a little TLC, I’ve been able to mollify a patient who has frustrated everyone else. I always remember that in a hospital, everything has been taken away from these patients, their clothes, their schedule, their dignity. And I try to give a little of that control back to them. I encourage all my patients to tell me what to do and be demanding and to refuse care that they aren’t comfortable with.
And I have nurses and doctors mad with me all the time for doing that, too. It screws them up when patients refuse to comply with treatment recommendations. But you know what? The body belongs to the patient, and they get to do whatever they want with it. And instinct is instinct. You can’t learn it. You can learn things to enhance it, but when your gut says something is wrong, then something is wrong.
I don’t believe any patient is med-seeking, at least the way some people mean it. I prefer treatment-seeking. If a patient is asking for medication over and over and over, that means they have a need that is not being met, that needs treatment. I hate the words med-seeking.
May 6- 12 is Nurse’s Week. Give all your favorite nurses something soft,like yarn. :XX: