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Hi beckymcrn. Thank you for taking the time to email your concerns to the people who need to know. It's great to see nurses who care about their profession.
I will write you that patients and families care about nursing. They care when they don't have a nurse responding to them after undergoing a harsh procedure the doctor ordered. They care when they have become sick at their stomachs and find that there is no nurse available soon enough to remove their soiled clothing, clean their soiled bed, or give them a soothing medicine for their symptoms. They care when their IV pump is beeping and they have to call for a nurse for an hour to manage it. They care when they c/o pain and a nurse does not respond to them immediately. They care when they tell the home health nurse that they did not have a bm for 1 or 2 weeks while in the hospital and the nurse did not respond when they finally told them about the problem 1 or 2 days before discharge. Let there be no mistake, nurses are cared about especially when they are missed. I don't know if you saw it, but there was a consumer satisfaction survey posted in this website that had nurses ranked number one. I have had a number of patients/clients tell me how valuable nurses are to them. Some are starting to feel sorry for the nurses, but they are the ones who don't get airtime. As you indicated, nurses are taken for granted. Much of this, I will acknowledge, we brought on ourselves because we did not progress with the times. When we fight, we need to make sure that we're fighting with a full deck of cards. I encourage you to continue your individual attention on behalf of nursing.
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I wish you the best of luck in getting some attention for our profession. I have been in nursing for 24 years. Yes, it is hard at times and I have laughed and cried with many of my patients and their families. If I did not feel such great satisfaction from my patients I would have left many years ago.
It is eaither in your blood or it is not. If it is not, you will not stay in it for very long.
Again, Good Luck
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Sheryl
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