Topics About 'Nurse Patient Relationships'.

Nurses are old and young, tall and short, skinny and wide. We come from all walks of life. Some choose to enter the nursing profession for job security, others to help those around them. Throughout our schooling, we are taught and tested on the scien...

Nurses are caring. It's a given. Yet, in today's pressured work environment of endless multi-tasking and multiple priorities, they run the risk that their caring may not come across effectively to the patients and families they serve. Connection...

Many nurses seem to ask variations of the aforementioned question. We want to be polite to our patients and visitors, albeit for different reasons. Some of us believe in the, "treat others as you would want to be treated," mantra, whereas other nurse...

Many of us view the healthcare setting as a place of employment where we we are comfortable. To patients, however, this medical setting is a maze with frightening and uncertain twists and turns, ups and downs into which they have entered, usually not...

We all have those patient stories that stay with us. The funny stories about patients on anesthesia. The difficult patients who make you question society’s sense. The lovely families who make our jobs just a little bit easier. And then there are enco...

Jacob, a 23-year-old, patiently lays on the bed in a semi-private room on the medical-surgical floor of an urban county-run hospital. The doctors, nurses and other staff have seen him many times previously because he is one of those 'frequent flyers'...

Connecting with Patients I love being a nurse. One of the great things about our job is the ability to connect with someone on a deeper, more intimate level than we normally do. Our patients or clients, whether sick or well, are in a more vulne...