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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
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1. What kind of person, challenges and or effort does it take to become a Nurse?
The effort to have a good educational foundation, apply to and be accepted to nursing school, graduate and pass the background check and NCLEX. Anyone who can graduate and pass the NCLEX can be a nurse.
Effort is relative to the individual as are challenges due to uniqueness of an individual and human variation.
2. What other work do Nurses do other than work beside doctors?
I do not work besides doctors unless you count doctors of nursing practice. I do not work beside physicians either. I work in consultation with physicians regarding standing orders and plans of care but not beside. Nurses can work autonomously as per the state nurse practice act. The settings are too varied to list.
3. A doctor's work is very challenging but what is it that a Nurse does that is as equally as challenging?
Nurses more often work 1:1 with patients to meet their needs. Humans are challenging. Doctors who work in universities as professors may not feel challenged. My sibling has a jurist doctorate. Her challenges include prosecuting major crimes including rape, murder and homicide and the associated challenges with high risk violent criminals. Not all physicians have challenging work. Not all nurses have challenging work. Keeping a seizing, tracheostomy and ventilator dependent child who also is wheezing and has a mucus plug alive as the only licensed nurse to care for the child and no time to reach the phone as the power goes out and you need to get a marine battery and BVM ready and pray the VNS magnet swipe breaks the drug-resistant epileptic seizure is quite challenging.
4. What is it that makes Nurses different from one another or what sets them apart?
Human variation.
5. What other work is performed that makes a Nurse's job more than just grunt work? Everything assessment, diagnosing the nursing area of concerns, implementing the plan of care, evaluating the plan of care and progress to goals. Grunt work would be mopping up the aftermath and taking the trash to the curb. Assessment and clinical knowledge is what helps nurses save patients.
Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.
So if nothing written in a post is against the TOS, but probably isn't what the OP is looking for...it gets deleted?
Normally this would be deleted as it is against the TOS to "argue publicly about policies or moderating decisions."
But I will respond to this here so that others can learn.
These comments were deleted as they were seen as rude and divisive. This is also covered under the TOS.
We promote the idea of lively debate. This means you are free to disagree with anyone on any type of subject matter as long as your criticism is constructive and polite. Additionally, please refrain from name-calling. This is divisive, rude, and derails the thread.
Our first priority is to the members that have come here because of the flame-free atmosphere we provide.
The OP probably will not be back to see this or any other thread, but if she/he chooses to return, I hope she/he will see some responses that are intended to help him/her instead of ones meant to humiliate.
I believe my interpretation must be different as to what is and is not against the TOS and while I don't feel mine was anything but tongue-in-cheek humor that WOULD be permitted... I appreciate the clarification and will refrain.
I believe my interpretation must be different as to what is and is not against the TOS and while I don't feel mine was anything but tongue-in-cheek humor that WOULD be permitted... I appreciate the clarification and will refrain.
I found Question #5 offensive all by itself without putting too much thought into the mental state of the person who asked it. I can only wonder what the deleted posts referred to.
Ditto re question #5. Only place I've ever heard a reference to "grunt" work was r/t low military rank. Otherwise, a 'grunt' is a noise like a groan. Even Gibbs has used it on NCIS.
If the question offended you I am sorry but these are questions based on very common misconceptions. I am writing an informative essay in order to dismiss these misconceptions.
If the question offended you I am sorry but these are questions based on very common misconceptions. I am writing an informative essay in order to dismiss these misconceptions.
What type of class is this for? I don't normally want to respond to these due to the fact that for all you know, I'm a Walmart greeter who moonlights as Pennywise the clown on weekends.
But, the wording of your questions suggests that YOU also hold these misconceptions, and I feel an open dialogue about these things might actually be beneficial. You are correct - they can be common to those who know no better, as evidenced by the Joy Behar spectacle.
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