CHALLEGES FACING A FLESH RN NURSE

If a nurse feels they have been given too many patients to safely care for , they need to voice this concern in a professional manner and request help

Another is the physician-nurse relationship . Nurses have always reported difficulty dealing with physicians who are rude , unpleasant , dismissive belittling , or intimidating . This kind of behavior is reported to be more prevalent among older physicians than among younger ones who were reared in a more egalitarian social climate . Nurses report that these negative behaviors appear to be related to gender issues , power gaps hierarchical

traditions , or an attitude that nurses are their handmaidens rather than valued professional collaborators (Nursing Center , 2008

Yet , the paradox of nursing is this . You will walk into a patient 's room with a smile on your face even if you are having the worst day of your life , and you will be able to make that person believe it is the best day in the world . You will help a patient to the bathroom twenty times in a shift and not take one minute to use the restroom yourself . You will administer pain medications for four patients and make sure they have a pillow and blanket , a magazine to read , or a telephone to call family , and yet you will not take fifteen minutes to eat supper yourself some days

You will provide Tylenol for headaches and backrubs for backaches , yet you will not take time to go find Tylenol for yourself because Mary in room 2 has climbed over the bedrails and fallen , and then you have to check Lonnie 's pulse ox in room 3 , and then John in room 4 needs his blood sugar checked . Not only that , but Dr . Beck just ed an enema for Jo to be given ASAP because she has not...