Unhealthy Habits of Nurses

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What are your thoughts on nurses participating in unhealthy habits. Does it bother you if a fellow nurse smokes or if they are overweight? Do you feel any different as a patient if your nurse walks in and is overweight or smells like smoke? If you were/are a nurse who smoked/smokes or who had/has a weight problem, did everything you learned in school about health prompt you to make any changes? If so did the changes stick?

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Specializes in hospice.

Homework question?

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MY thoughts are that the search bar, at the top right corner of this page, will provide you with all the info you seek. These are extremely common topics for threads, and there's hundreds to choose from.

THEN you can glean all the answers for your assignment ;)

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The assignment is actually to post it and see people's responses to my question not to look up other people answers. Thanks for the suggestion though. Hopefully there will be others who would like to actually respond.

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Specializes in hospice.

Your teacher told you to post this question on a message board?

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This is something I had a heated debate about in my ethics class. How we got on the subject I don't know...anyways...I believe that as nurses we must be professional figures and role models for the community that we serve. I mean no disrespect by saying this but I think it's foolish when an overweight nurse is teaching about diet and things of that natures. Same with smoking, if a nurse smells like smoke and she's advocating for a patient to quit then you might as well stop there because they are not going to take you serious.

Once again, no disrespect here, but we are the role models. If you are overweight, smell of smoke, and illustrate poor habits in general nobody will take you serious. This is because they consider us experts! And if they see that we as nurses are not practicing healthy choices and are not heeding the advice then why should they?

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I think.that if you're standing on your soapbox about this then you probably haven't been a nurse long enough to 1) understand that nurses are just as human as the people they treat and 2) haven't fully experienced the overwhelming disproportionate stress that comes with making sure people don't die for a living.

Really think about how stressful this field is. And then think about how stress manifests itself (overeating, smoking, drinking, etc.) And when you're done doing that, stop judging and live your own life.

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Specializes in hospice.

Hey Richard, a question was asked and he responded. It's not like he just walked up to someone and spouted off.

If you disagree, fine, but there's no need to be disagreeable.

And "stop judging" is a whiny, overused retort that needs to die.

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Richard I understand your point of view but you also must take a look at how this looks from a patient perspective. It's equivalent of a homeless man lecturing you on how to save your money...there's no credibility there.

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The assignment is actually to post it and see people's responses to my question not to look up other people answers. Thanks for the suggestion though. Hopefully there will be others who would like to actually respond.

Ahem.

I did actually respond. I ACTUALLY told you how to find about a bazillion answers that have already been posted to the identical questions you posed. Many members here have taken the time to write out some pretty well-thought out responses and don't feel like typing it all in again so you can see something shiny and new on 'your' thread.

Beyond that, if you would like future assistance on assignments, it would behoove you to lose the 'tude. Or, you can keep it up and get answers only from students who feel like killing some time, rather than seasoned nurses who (for now) won't bother.

Beyond THAT.....your teacher gave you an assignment in which you were supposed to get feedback from whomever might answer on an anonymous message board? Who may or may not be nurses, or aides, or housekeeping....or accountants? Odd.

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Richard I understand your point of view but you also must take a look at how this looks from a patient perspective. It's equivalent of a homeless man lecturing you on how to save your money...there's no credibility there.

So the degree the nurse earned, the experience she/he has, and the excellent patient care he/she provides is not credible because they're fat or use tobacco?

Never thought I'd thank God for a.board of nursing, but I'm happy there's an entity that judges our merit by our qualifications and not our waist lines.

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Hey Richard, a question was asked and he responded. It's not like he just walked up to someone and spouted off.

If you disagree, fine, but there's no need to be disagreeable.

And "stop judging" is a whiny, overused retort that needs to die.

You called me disagreeable but proceeded to call me whiny? Lol k.

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