16 interesting facts about nursing around the world!

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These are very interesting. Some are downright horrifying! :eek:

I should start telling the MDs that I'm not allowed to touch male patients lol! :lol2:

I'm in that 80% as well. sundowning and that full moon ain't no joke!

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Specializes in Adult/Ped Emergency and Trauma.

On a mission trip to Uganda, 2001, I watched in amazement 2 British Nurses and a Communal Tanzanian Midwife do 7 C-sections, and a appendectomy with the grace and efficiency of a senior surgeon. In India, 2004, a Nurse Practitioner from Southern MS took over a hemicolectomy when the doctor was called out mid-case. Makes me think back to the Crimean and Ms. Nightingale, and what a group of ladies must have done and seen- never knowing their work would frame up a proffesion beyond their wildest dreams- by lamplight.

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Even in New Zealand we NEVER say the Q word.

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Specializes in Occupational Health; Adult ICU.

What they don't say is that in Japan, frequently overtime comes with NO extra pay.

There is an official category of cause of death in Japan known as Karōshi which translates to: "worked to death."

Look it up on Wikipedia...

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