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    Clients? Are they no longer patients?

    Boognish replied to bassadict69's topic in General Students

    I think there are a lot of people out there who depend on others to do these things for them who would not want to be referred to that way. The word patient has not been used to refer to people...
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    Clients? Are they no longer patients?

    Boognish replied to bassadict69's topic in General Students

    Yes- but not all nurses work with people who are sick. Using patient as the catch-all term for people who are cared for by nurses implies that a person who needs the care of a nurse is sick- which is...
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    CNS vs. CNL

    Boognish replied to BittyBabyRN's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    I'm currently in a CNL program, and there's a little more to it than that. In addition to performing bedside duties, a CNL is responsible for an entire group of patients (a single unit, floor, etc)....
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    Clients? Are they no longer patients?

    Boognish replied to bassadict69's topic in General Students

    While, as a I said before, I think that the term client is best reserved for speaking of those served by nurses in general while "patient" and "resident" are more appropriate to use in clinical and...
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    Clients? Are they no longer patients?

    Boognish replied to bassadict69's topic in General Students

    My understanding is that "client" is a general term, referring to anyone in any setting that a nurse might care for. In a clinical setting, patient is the appropriate term. In long term care,...
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    Do you actually READ your nursing books or just skim?

    Boognish replied to starmickey03's topic in General Students

    Exactly. Everybody learns differently- some people don't absorb material from books all that well, and spending a ton of time plowing through their assigned reading in depth just to get it done is a...
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    Can I lose my license for being nude on internet?

    Boognish replied to climbs's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    We just learned in class about all of the seemingly odd things that one can lose a nursing licence over. I remember that hosting a Mediaographic website on a personal computer/server was one of them...
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    Do you actually READ your nursing books or just skim?

    Boognish replied to starmickey03's topic in General Students

    It really depends on the class and the material. I had a pharmacology class this Summer where all of the tests were based entirely on the lecture- so after the first exam I didn't even open the...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Maybe not, considering the fact that idiot is somebody of below average intelligence. Technically speaking, although the word is no longer used as part of a system to categorize levels of cognitive...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Agreed. If I were a patient in a hospital, I would not want an idiot as my nurse. Would I expect someone with a genius IQ? Of course not. I wouldn't even necessarily expect my doctor to be a...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Thanks! I appreciate all of the input I get on this website from veteran nurses, as I'll be entering the field as an RN in about a year and a half. So, thank you everybody for your honest and...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    One of the things that I find kind of troubling from my nursing classes so far is that despite the fact that doctors still seem to hold most of the power in most healthcare workplaces, a nurse can...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'm still not getting what nursing being a "profession" or not has to do with this- law is supposedly a "profession," but ask a public defender if their workload is gives them adequate time to provide...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yes- well that's a problem in and of
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I can't compare, because I have never been to Australia. And I guess it's unfair for me to generalize anything about the entire US- it's a huge country, and varies considerably between and within...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    First, I appologize for how I expressed that. I certainly didn't mean to say that service work is unimportant- I was trying to be funny and came off as incredibly disrespectful. When I used...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    OK, I get what you're saying. I guess I'd respond that while the professional aptitudes required of a nurse may be simpler and require less intellectual ability than being a doctor, professional...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    So what specifically do you mean by professional aptitude? An ability to perform the specific duties of the job? As far as professional behavior- it's not something that can be forced within a...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    oops- looks like I rewrote my post after you responded to it- but what you said relates to what I replaced it with. I can see why classes focusing on professionalism might feel condescending and...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I mean, maybe it's the fact that the way they teach professionalism at the schools you have attended feels like they're "drumming it" in to you. I've been in classes that feel that way, and I have a...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    It may be impossible for a single class to imbue a person with a sense of personal responsibility, but it is possible to teach people what their responsibilities are and what their future employers...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    To me, professionalism isn't about what tasks one is doing- it's more about the amount of responsibility one takes for one's own work. Because no matter what tasks you're doing as a nurse, what you...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Oh yeah, and I did all that for less than $10 an
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I've worked in a setting with incredibly poor staffing ratios- I've been a medication aide in assisted living and memory care for four years, and I worked as direct care staff in group homes for...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    Boognish replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    That sounds awfully pessimistic. Sure, a class isn't going to teach maturity- but it can prepare nurses to expect to have to meet a certain standard of behavior in the workplace, so they're not...