Nursing Orders

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Hello everyone. I'm a first sem nursing student. I was wondering if someone could explain nursing order to me. Possibly how they are written and so on....? THANKS

j9g2008---I think that is what i'm looking for???? How they write an actual order...i still need to understand how they are written

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Nursing orders (diagnoses) are pointless. Nursing organizations, in an effort to "professionalize" a very bluecollar type of working field, wanted to come up with something unique that they could use and would make them look more important and smart. So here we are, comping up with these stupid dianoses (for ex: ineffective airway clearance related to excessive secretions). I mean COME ON. If the dude has a giant loogy lodged in his throat, get the yonkers and suction it out. See how easy that was? But noooo, these organizations want us to "IQ it up" a bit and relay in an intelligent way. It's dumb and makes nurses look dumb, and it's why we're looked at that way and aren't taken seriously as a whole. ANY person with half a brain can come to the conclusion that if there's spit in a patient's throat, then it probably needs to be suctioned out. But while we're doing it, let's label it as a "nursing intervention" just to make us appear smarter than we really are. Retarded! :0 just a little rant I have, sorry!

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Nursing orders (diagnoses) are pointless. Nursing organizations, in an effort to "professionalize" a very bluecollar type of working field, wanted to come up with something unique that they could use and would make them look more important and smart. So here we are, comping up with these stupid dianoses (for ex: ineffective airway clearance related to excessive secretions). I mean COME ON. If the dude has a giant loogy lodged in his throat, get the yonkers and suction it out. See how easy that was? But noooo, these organizations want us to "IQ it up" a bit and relay in an intelligent way. It's dumb and makes nurses look dumb, and it's why we're looked at that way and aren't taken seriously as a whole. ANY person with half a brain can come to the conclusion that if there's spit in a patient's throat, then it probably needs to be suctioned out. But while we're doing it, let's label it as a "nursing intervention" just to make us appear smarter than we really are. Retarded! :0 just a little rant I have, sorry!

Uhmmm....take another read through the thread, she said that nursing diagnoses and nursing orders were listed separately....as in different things.

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If you read mine then you will see that I said I went off on a rant. Ok, I'm not replying to you anymore. You seem to be combing through my posts and I don't have the time for that right now. Have a good day.

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If you read mine then you will see that I said I went off on a rant. Ok, I'm not replying to you anymore. You seem to be combing through my posts and I don't have the time for that right now. Have a good day.

Not combing through your posts....if you notice, I had posted in both of these conversations before you did...so replies end up in my e-mail inbox.

Trust me, you don't figure at all on my radar.

A rant's fine, but it should maybe be on the topic of the post? Or at least an acknowledgement that its now when the poster was trying to figure out what a nursing order was....that's all.

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I understand that you are ranting. Feel free to get your problems out. But regardless of how stupid you think nursing diagnosis's are, we still have to do them.

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I was just reading through my nursing psych textbook and it starts explaining careplans. In the step of nursing interventions it has nursing orders in parenthesis. Hope that helps!!

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thefreedictionary.com describes it this way:

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specific instructions for implementing the nursing care plan, including the patient's preferences, timing of activities, details of health education necessary for the particular patient, role of the family, and plans for care after discharge. Nursing orders must be signed by the professional nurse who writes them. They should not duplicate the orders of the medical staff or of other members of the health team. "

Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier

Hope this helps.

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Thanks to everyone for your help!

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