Thursday, 28 August 2008

IS IT TRUE.... NURSES ARE DOCTOR'S ASSISTANT??

POST COMMENT....PLEASE.....

U THINK NURSES SERVE AS DOCTOR'S ASSISTANT? I KNOW I DON'T ALTHOUGH WE WORK TOGETHER, WE HAVE OUR TASKS AND THEY HAVE THEIR OWN....

SO WHAT DO U THINK?

....ACCORDING TO DAILY NEWS I READ AROUND CIRCA 2007 FROM uNITED kINGDOM...THOUSANDS OF NURSES WOULD BE CUT OFF FROM THEIR JOB DUE TO SHORTAGE (meaning budjet!!).....SOME REBELLIOUS NURSES FROM THIS PARTICULAR HOSPITAL DECIDED TO WALK DOWN THE STREETS IN THE UK...AS THEY OPPOSED TO THIS REMARK...BUT IN THE END THEY TEND NOT TO ....U KNOW WHY? BECAUSE OF 'PATIENTS' .... THEY CARE SO MUCH THEY COULD NOT LEAVE THEIR WORK TASK AS PATIENTS NEED NURSES TO LOOK AFTER THEM......

SO WHAT DO U THINK PEOPLE? OR SHOULD I SAY 'NURSES'??.....

1 comment:

Internal Medicine Nursing said...

PNO Hj Maidin, told us before, "Be a first class nurse, not the second class doctors" :)

We are never be their assistant, it's just that some of them are spoiled with our "decent courtesy".

"The frailty of nursing in the modern world is born of its intangibility. Nursing is more than treating ill people. It's about nourishment, problem solving, and easing a patient's experience of suffering, medical invasion, or death. It's always been hard to pin down, so it's not surprising that nurses have turned to the material world of postgraduate recognition, evidence based practice, expanded roles, and mimicking the medical career structure---nurse consultants, nurse practitioners, etc---in order to redesign their sense of self. The doctors, however, are still having their needs met by nurses.

Surely doctors are more than happy to see nurses do tasks that usually take up time and quite frankly bore them. Nurses are taking over tasks from junior doctors---administering intravenous drugs, doing endoscopies, preoperative assessment, and some prescribing. "

I saved this long ago.. just for reference : http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7241/1085