Excellent article! I was a long term care nurse and am now a hospice nurse, and your comments about the desires of families, moves, upcoming weddings that people are being kept alive for are all about the family member, NOT the patient. As a caregive...
Excellent article! I was a long term care nurse and am now a hospice nurse, and your comments about the desires of families, moves, upcoming weddings that people are being kept alive for are all about the family member, NOT the patient. As a caregive...
Kudos to you for being able to separate yourself from your patients...everyone needs to at some point...patients can be very needy!! You have very lucky cats!!
I think it's fair to say that there are really good compassionate nurses, there are clearly technically skilled nurses, there are nurses who are reliable, some not so much, some articulate and bright, and well, somebody had to graduate last in their ...
My heart goes out to you! We do, as nurses, tend to eat our young. I hate that it happens, but nursing has become a field heavy with managers. They don't always have the best people skills and they don't always practice the right judgment. All I will...
Wow...I have two jobs...one 32 hours weekly with call, one 24 hours weekly with call.. I just turned 53 and sometimes wonder if I will ever stop working!! I love both the specialties I do, but considering dropping back at the end of the year to 16 pl...