DDRN04

first born and mother is first born also a nurse

1. Patient load 2. Length of orientation 3. Shifts - can you rotate day/night (if you want to) or does going on nights make it permanent

I think that you came up with a good term, that was not insulting or degrading, and that you did it quickly and under pressure. This is an example of the unexpected situations that nursing can thrust us into. The person you were speaking to did not take offense to what you said and even if she had then she could have supplied a term that she preferred. In nursing we have to ask questions about sex, drug use, bowel pattern, we do not have to and cannot come up with euphamisms.

Please explain how you are both not inferior but not equal to someone? Yes we do very different jobs but none less important than the other. Once again I make my point that nurses are at the bedside and see changes in the patients whereas dcotors make rounds.

Doctors don't "cure" diseases they treat them. Do they address you as sir or ma'am when they speak to you? Doctors know more than us about medicine, but we know more than them about nursing. We are the ones at the actual bedside monitoring and observing the patiens.