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During my current rotation (I'm a student) in OB, something kind of struck me as odd about how my postion was being represented to the patients. Let me explain a bit... During my initial med-surg rotation last semester, I was on an ortho floor and wa...

I beleive that the poll question was couched in the following terms: "... occupations rated for their honesty and ethical standards" I don't want to get off on a rant here... .. but I don't think there's any real linkage between being hightly honest ...

Because there are large sales of these drugs, it's somehow "proof" of a negative impact on sensitivity, etc. in circ'd men? "Intact" men don't use these drugs? Was there a study showing a distribution of use among these groups?

I'm currently struggling with a bit of a dilemma. There's a particular doctor (I work in the OR) who seems to think it's perfectly acceptable for him to walk up to various female nurses and kiss them. I'm not talking about the cheek-to-cheek air smoo...

Good point, and good info. I'm in some definate need for spending a bit of shoe leather figuring who relates to whom and what political influences are at play in the workplace. Thanks.

Well, I'm in that Thanks for your feedback!

In a "General" forum, any post is an invitation to others to make comments. Perhaps there should be a "vent" forum for folks to empty their proverbial spleens with some expectation of NOT soliciting opposing views. [sidebar: I really don't advocate t...

Yes, folks get on here to vent. However, there are many "vent" threads that are humansituations that just happen to occur in a nurse setting. Even though the setting brings a definite context, it doesn't necessarily lock every other point of view ou...

I'm afraid that you've made an incorrect assumption. I wasn't endorsing any of the inventions to which you refer. I was responding to the OP's question regarding the use of "customer" in place of "patient." Interesting point of view. I thought th...

Sorry, I don't know what assumption you think that I've made. I know that management of any organization can be boneheaded. I know that such boneheadedness is often expressed by poorly implemented "solutions" to problems that are really just symptom...

There are 2 fundamental flaws with the resistance to looking at patients as customers. 1. People who end up sick and in the hospital aren't there because it's a good time. It's not like they are there to do us a favor. Many, many people have to pay s...

Perhaps having chronic pain all her life, she's learned coping mechanisms that allow her to function at something near normal levels. Maybe, even though she masks the outward signs, she's still continually suffering on the inside. It might even be po...

What enrages me is a prevailing culture that has created an atmosphere where you feel criminal just for asking for pain relief. It has done a wonderful job in creating an environment where some patients feel obligated to lay in bed white-knuckling th...

It's an attempt to get an IT professional at a nursing salary.

Started when I was 44. Best danged thing I ever did!

And that's the weakest argument against. It's amazing that you actually believe there's a comparison between a circ and a loss of a limb. That's right up there with the great "foreskin industrial complex" brought up elsewhere in this thread.

Hmmm. Just in the short span of time that I've worked in the OR, I've had several occasions to witness patient concern regarding modesty. This has ranged from the Muslim woman asking for an all female surgical team to the middle-aged housewife who ju...

The idea of having circumcision as an item in the arsenal for fending off HIV infection rates in high rate areas is tempting. However, I think some fairly big problems would have to be wrestled with before getting aggressive about putting this out th...

Seems odd that the most vociferous voices against circumcision seem to ignore these non-trivial health impacts. Having undergone the procedure in my infancy, I can say that just for the reasons noted above, I'm glad it was done. Also, since these iss...

Why would you want to approve the use of a drug that can be grown for free when you can force suffering people to pay thousands of dollars a year for an alternative? It certainly would be a shame to reduce a cost burden for someone already coping wit...

"H.R.6420 Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax on certain medical care providers that fail to provide a minimum level of charity medical care, and for other purposes." I think that without the full text of the pr...

Change the question. Imagine for a moment that nursing was a male-dominant profession. What benefit would there be in bringing in more females? Broader insight to the people being served? Different priorities? Different approaches to interpersonal re...

Every time I see this sort of thread open up, there is always opinion on what amounts to two different subjects. Subject one: What the patient wants - yea, verily. If a patient is more comfortable with a nurse of the same sex, then by all means, acco...

First time I had an MRI, it didn't bother me. However, a few years ago I had to have one and I was totally freaked. Had to reschedule and have it done under sedation. Don't know if I was more embarassed about having to be gorked out to have the test ...

Nursing school was hard. Demanding. And ultimately a great experience. If it were easy, then completing it wouldn't have been much of an accomplishment. Add to that the great people that I met while in school and still have the blessings of their con...