Tell The World

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Part of my RN-BSN program for James Madison University is an assignment titled, “Tell The World”and in this assignment, I talk about my profession as a nurse. Nurses are vital to providing evidence based patient centered care that drastically affects their outcomes. I currently work on a step-down ICU and have been working through the COVID pandemic. One of the biggest lessons I have taken away from this pandemic is the importance of a nurse-to-patient centered care. Until working in this environment, I never realized how important nurses are to the emotional and psychological well-being of a patient. Simple acts of active listening, compassion, positivity, and touch are so vital to patients under these conditions. I feel these simple acts are not well known the public, but nurses provide so much more to a family’s loved ones than are realized. This is the point to my article; nurses are always there to take care of your family’s loved ones and provide them with compassionate care. The journey to become a nurse is difficult and often challenging many facing sacrifices with family and spending financial resources to pursue their dream, I am here to tell you, it is worth it.T

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Well stated. Sadly, staffing and general chaos on most hospital units,  and in general nursing today,  prevent ideal nursing practice. This is why so many are retiring early or leaving altogether for another career path.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
On 11/15/2021 at 8:27 PM, CBRN09 said:

Part of my RN-BSN program for James Madison University is an assignment titled, “Tell The World”and in this assignment, I talk about my profession as a nurse. Nurses are vital to providing evidence based patient centered care that drastically affects their outcomes. I currently work on a step-down ICU and have been working through the COVID pandemic. One of the biggest lessons I have taken away from this pandemic is the importance of a nurse-to-patient centered care. Until working in this environment, I never realized how important nurses are to the emotional and psychological well-being of a patient. Simple acts of active listening, compassion, positivity, and touch are so vital to patients under these conditions. I feel these simple acts are not well known the public, but nurses provide so much more to a family’s loved ones than are realized. This is the point to my article; nurses are always there to take care of your family’s loved ones and provide them with compassionate care. The journey to become a nurse is difficult and often challenging many facing sacrifices with family and spending financial resources to pursue their dream, I am here to tell you, it is worth it.T

I'm both impressed and jealous that you are learning something in your RN to BSN program.

    I didn't and consider mine to a total waste of time, though fortunately not my money since I didn't pay for it.  

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.
On 11/16/2021 at 7:26 AM, SmilingBluEyes said:

Well stated. Sadly, staffing and general chaos on most hospital units,  and in general nursing today,  prevent ideal nursing practice. This is why so many are retiring early or leaving altogether for another career path.

I would not willingly go back to hospital nursing. Administrators like to throw around the phrase "quality care", while making sure that we are unable to deliver it through understaffing, unrealistic patient loads, inadequate pay and benefits, you name it.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.

The for profit health system demands Cadillac quality for Pinto pay and benefits. 

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.
1 hour ago, Orca said:

I would not willingly go back to hospital nursing. Administrators like to throw around the phrase "quality care", while making sure that we are unable to deliver it through understaffing, unrealistic patient loads, inadequate pay and benefits, you name it.

I’m curious about the inadequate pay. I don’t work as a bedside RN and I’m a long way away from that world, but I’ve always thought/felt that bedside RNs made fairly decent money. What do you think a reasonable hourly wage or salary would be?

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
6 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

The for profit health system demands Cadillac quality for Pinto pay and benefits. 

You realize you are dating yourself by using the Pinto in your analogy. Probably nobody under 50 will have any idea what that was. 

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
10 hours ago, PMFB-RN said:

You realize you are dating yourself by using the Pinto in your analogy. Probably nobody under 50 will have any idea what that was. 

Hey! I’m under 50 and know what the Pinto was! There goes your hypothesis ?

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
57 minutes ago, Rose_Queen said:

Hey! I’m under 50 and know what the Pinto was! There goes your hypothesis ?

Maybe your crazy aunt owned one when you were little? 

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.
On 11/23/2021 at 3:42 PM, BostonFNP said:

I’m curious about the inadequate pay. I don’t work as a bedside RN and I’m a long way away from that world, but I’ve always thought/felt that bedside RNs made fairly decent money. What do you think a reasonable hourly wage or salary would be?

I haven't worked in the private sector for close to 20 years. I'm not the best one to pose that question to. I know that in the public sector, we are falling farther behind hospitals in pay, resulting in very few applications for our vacant positions. We just aren't competitive anymore.

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