Compassion....Why is it lacking?

Nurses General Nursing

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I've been working as a student nurse for the past couple of months and will soon graduate. I've seen nurses that lack compassion and it's really disturbing. Some nurses want to hold back pain meds until there dammm good and ready to give them. I've seen pts throwing up in pain...and still, the nurse takes her sweet little time or wants to take her break first. This makes me sick! Is this some kind of control issue that nurses have??? I'll say one thing....it's going to be very hard for me to keep my job because of this. I'm one who can't and won't stay quiet!

In my 17 years as a nurse, I have seen a few instances of nurses purposely holding back pain meds in order to exert power, or simply to "punish" a pt. These instances are very rare.

There are times when I really have no compassion for certain pts- because of their behavior, and when a pt is where they are because of their own actions, and continues to be non-compliant and make everything harder for everyone.

However- even when I feel no compassion for a pt as an individual, my regard for humanity and my respect and reverence for nursing itself lead me to give my pts the best care I can- even the ones I don't particularly like or feel compassion for.

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.
To me, needy patients steal care time from others who may need it more, and on those patients' behalf, you bet I resent it

Exactomondo.

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