Alnitak7

The act of shaking someones hand originated long ago when armies, more specifically the generals, would meet before the battle and to prove that the other person did not have a weapon up their sleeve or under their armor, would shake the opponents hand to ensure this.

To this day, I still rarely ever like to shake hands and with someone who I just met, it makes me feel violated. This was one good thing about the pandemic, it made it so I didn't have to shake hands as often. It gives me a bad feeling when every so often, someone still expects this.

It's off the subject but anyone being told they're getting an "injection in the fanny" should run. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's a shot in the flesh of the hip and not in the butt. I don't know why they tell people this. Neither do I know why patients announce this like they're proud of it. https://www.physio-pedia.com/Sciatic_Nerve_Injury#:~:text=Injection palsy can begin suddenly,trained staff or unqualified staff.

You have to remember that sociopaths seldom get professional help because they're not suffering. Most of them probably do not have a formal diagnosis unless they have either been to jail or a mental ward where medical intervention is pushed on them.

I don't think people who worry about their patients always cry over them. I would think some of the most sensitive people on earth rarely ever cry. You don't have to be attached to patients or cry for them to have empathy. There are varying ways for empathy to express itself. Empathy makes me frantic sometimes. Empathy caused me to bring a drink to a screaming, cursing patient once. I could tell he was thirsty. What concerns me about sociopaths is that they start fights. I would worry that people quit because of them. I would think if someone wonders if they're a sociopath they should look for empathy inside themselves. Empathy can fade when you're under stress or if you're tired or feeling ill. There are certain people who don't bring out this trait in others.

Do you think their charge nurses would negatively diagnose their favorites?

Sociopathy often clouds the mind and makes some act in ways that are not evidence based. I watched a C.N.A. with a severely arthritic patient who was jerking her limbs around and ignoring her screams. She claimed that not doing this would make her worse. She didn't care about anything but herself. They're known for putting people in crisis and being insensitive to the feelings of others. I've seen my coworkers deny people the right to water just to be obnoxious and had them prevent me from giving my patients adequate care. I think a sociopathic nurse would need rigid self-control to work in such close contact with people.

Let me ask one more time, should handshaking be obliterated from our culture? Covid and other illnesses are still spreading.

I remember being shadowed by students when I still worked. I was getting the feeling from some of them that they were there for voyeuristic purposes and just wanted to stare at some vulnerable patients. Although their R.N. teacher sent them, they did not know how to act. They did not speak or show concern. They did not offer to help in any way, even though there are ways an untrained person could help. I was getting madder by the minute since it seemed to me that they could stare without even blinking and with complete lack of feeling. I do not think patient care is a spectator sport. It would not matter what age group or category of patients I had.

This is similar to my situation at present. I'm protecting my patient. I have communicated my concerns to the doctors. I'm involved in a power struggle for protecting my patient. I have listed my reasoning in extensive detail and am getting nowhere.

So much of this depends on whether the place likes you. I agree with not going behind the managers back. I would ask before you visit a unit you don't work in.

I think this might depend on why you're an introvert and if you can even get along with people on a superficial level. What your post brought to mind was a laundry lady in a hotel I worked in that used to drive everyone insane and yet she worked by herself. I'm assuming you're not in any way similar to her. It also brings to mind some people I worked with decades ago who would turn and look the other way and not answer when I talked to them. It used to be a welcome relief when the more outspoken girls came to work. I would think that even if these poor communicators were working in a lab, they would be getting a lot of complaints. I do understand your not wanting to work with a team of health workers who are capable of stirring up trouble and who have rigid expectations.

Then if you're looking for schooling, what degree program is the best to qualify you and how many years would it be and what are the credentials to get in?

Would you recommend this job to someone with zero nursing experience who has never been to nursing school or done patient care? Can they go to nursing school only for research nursing and never do hands-on care during their schooling?

This is not really about me and I wasn't really thinking about R.N. programs in this case. I feel like there are numerous medical professions that can be used to run a scam and I think R.N. programs are included in that list. It really flabbergasted me one time when I visited a school claiming to run a vet tech training program and they didn't ask me for ANY school records. They were not interested in whether I could handle the class material or even if I was trustworthy and in this way made their dishonesty obvious.

As for "training in healthcare" being broad, this was deliberate since someone posted an advertisement on the web and I thought I should try to save her face. I can't prove that she's running a scam so I kept out all identifying information.

I just came across an ad for a school that offers training in healthcare. As I examined the details, I could not find any indication that they require references or recommendations. I remember when I took nursing classes that I had to provide a recommendation from my employers and they had to write a note to my school. In years past, when I've gone to check out healthcare training schools and they do not require any references, all my alarms went off and I avoided them. I later learned that my suspicions about them were right, eg. "a lot of the girls who went there were dopers and they didn't know what was going on..." Am I right in my perception that no request for recommendations is a red flag? I know in my experience it has been.

A lot of patients can't reach self-actualization and need to be accepted the way they are. If one stays focused on their own self-actualization, they would then gain more and more insights to help them give good care to their patients. They would also have more healing abilities that would come from healing themselves first.

I've had prayers answered and in the minds of some people, this only proves the power of human thought energy. I think if a loving God exists then he would have reasons why he lets evil things happen on our planet and I also think he would be way beyond the God of the Bible. I've sometimes felt like there was a loving presence in the room with me who was not saying anything and some people might say that your brain Chemistry creates this and that it's an illusion. I remember a paranoid patient in hysterics one time who asked me to pray for her and she calmed down when I did. Does this prove that God exists or was it only my faith that calmed the patient down? I refuse to call myself an atheist because without having been on other planes of existence, I can't prove there's no God. I've never discussed God with my patients unless they brought it up first.

Would you recommend that someone with no nursing school and no experience in patient care and no training in nursing procedures go directly into research nursing? Is there actually any research nursing degree program where students don't have to do any patient care? I would tend to doubt this but just wondered if I have a misconception.

If the work load is overwhelming then why not try working for a home nursing agency where you would have only one patient at a time. That way, you would be able to slow down. In my nursing text book it said to check the med labels three times before you give the med and to chart immediately when the patient takes them and with home care, you would actually have enough time to work this way. Home nursing would also give you a good foundation for social work. Most of the home nursing agencies I worked in had supportive co-workers as well.

As well as talking about 2032, check out this video about 1918, slide it up to 33 minutes and you'll see I'm not the first one to think about this. Between 33:00 minutes and 33:30 minutes there's the mention of handshaking. https://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=UDY5COg2P2c "1918 Spanish Flu historical documentary / Swine Flue Pandemic/ Deadly plague of 1918"

In all the years I worked, I only remember one family member who came in the room and reached out to shake my hand. It seems no matter if they liked my work or not, they never expected me to shake hands.