Susie2310

Susie2310

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  1. Go back to PedsRN's post where he/she said that nurses and physicians are peers. I disagreed, as nurses and physicians are not peers (peers means equivalency in, for example, education, training, and...
  2. Use the dictionary. Look up the word "peer." You used it incorrectly. What I said was not "semantics." Also look up
  3. dudette10, please show me where in this thread I have said that anyone yelling at anyone is
  4. My point was that by referring the question to the physician, the physician can choose to answer the question as he sees fit, or to defer the question. No-one is necessarily made to look
  5. The physician is in charge of the patient's care, not the nurse. The physician has spent years in medical school, internships, residencies and specialty training. We are not peers, because we are...
  6. This is the situation as I understand it: The physician was discussing some important medical information/plans for discharge with the patient while the OP was present, and the OP told us the patient...
  7. New grads in specialties without the basics

    And that is my point - gain the basic experience in a LESS acute area than the ED. My family member has had new nurses on med-surg. While I have not been completely comfortable with the situation, I...
  8. New grads in specialties without the basics

    Med-surg does not commonly receive patients who are as unstable and critically ill as the ED does. While I believe that nurses starting out in med-surg should have received good clinical preparation...
  9. Manners please; my name is not "girl." Your profile says that you are a student. If you are going to be a nurse, you will learn that manners count. In the OP's case, the physician, who was undermined...
  10. New grads in specialties without the basics

    I agree with the OP. Regardless of whether people agree on the status of med-surg as a specialty, I think the point is that basic nursing training on a med-surg unit does provide good training in the...
  11. From your post history you are a new nurse. Without knowing what you said in reply to the patient's question, it is not possible to conclude that your answer, although not apparently directly related...
  12. Am I understanding correctly that you are a risk manager/claims manager, but that you are not a
  13. Are We "Glorifying" Nurses?

    I wholeheartedly
  14. Are We "Glorifying" Nurses?

    The only point I would add to this is that, where you said the decisions and choices are not law, I would say that the nurses' critical thinking process, the Nursing Process (SOAPIE/ADPIE), which is...
  15. Are We "Glorifying" Nurses?

    By "making decisions that save patients lives", I was not referring to treatment decisions that are the prerogative of the physician. Our scope of practice requires that we assess our patients, and...
  16. Are We "Glorifying" Nurses?

    Do you really believe that only nurses who work in ICU/critical care make critical decisions that save patient lives? If I recall correctly, you work in critical care. Is this how you see yourself...
  17. Your worst nightmare

    During the four hours that the patient, complaining of right and left sided chest pain, waited, the patient was not moved to an area where they were placed on a cardiac monitor; their heart rate and...
  18. Your worst nightmare

    My posts on this thread were respectful, so I find some of your comments offensive. When one starts a thread other posters respond according to their experience, beliefs, values, and so forth. One...
  19. Your worst nightmare

    In your OP the patient's wife screamed at Amber: "You said it wasn't his heart." Did the nurse tell the patient that it wasn't his heart? If she did, it could have been construed by the patient that...
  20. Your worst nightmare

    The patient was male, 50 years old, African, had started a weight training program the day before (these are risk factors for cardiac related chest pain), and presented with left and right sided chest...
  21. Your worst nightmare

    From the information in your post it appears as though the patient, who was complaining of what appeared to be cardiac related chest pain, was, until the time they left the A&E after being there...
  22. I strongly advise against shutting off a patient's call light for staff convenience. Regardless of how disruptive a patient is being, the call light is the primary way the patient can call for...
  23. Nurses that kill

    I would have titled the thread differently, but, yes, I can believe your
  24. The Wisdom of Lurking

    Thank you. I always read your posts too and find them very valuable. I accept that there are areas we disagree
  25. The Wisdom of Lurking

    In terms of community, i.e. common ground, what most of us have in common is that we are nurses, students, pre-nursing students, work in health care in another field, or are interested in nursing....