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Originally Posted by Steve G The problem with the nurses is that there are bloody loads of them and they have a very strong and PR savy representative body, which we lack. They also seem to have a bit of the brain missing (or perhaps it's drilled out of them during their training) that says 'listen to other professionals recomendations'. Here's an article that is quite worrying: http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2006/...r-alert-6.html |
Steve
That's a great blog article, and a very good example. Please don't get me wrong, I am not anti-nurse. What I am is anti anybody trying to make decisions on something they do not have a clue about. I am happy to include myself in this, and am always saying to patients "I am 99% sure I know the answer to this, but just let me check it out for a couple of minutes to be 100%". I would always rather check something out then guess, or believe what a patient is telling me, or give a Dr the benefit of the doubt.
The problem with nurses is that there seems to me to be a big variation in knowledge, intelligence and qualifications. Some I know are just glorified cleaners/waitresses, yet some have a great clinical knowledge.
Off subject, but a good example I have just thought of when I worked in the hospital. I once went into the cardiac ward, and was looking at all the monitors with people's ECG's on. One of the staff nurses walked up to me and asked what I was looking at. I told her I was trying to remember what parts were what on the ECG from Uni. I was thinking about the SA node, PQR (or is it QRS) peak increasing in angina exercise tests, how to spot tachycardia, flutter and fibrillation (A or V) and stuff like that (that I can't remember now, and have probably got wrong!) and just said to her "I'm trying to remember the significant peaks, and which parts they relate to." Her reply was "well it shows your ticker doesn't it". I asked her a question, along the same lines as the ones I was thinking about, and she just had this stupid blank look on her face. Basically all she knew was it showed your heart, and if it was flat you were dead!
Anyway back to the post. Why don't we start doing a blog? I know it's easy to do your own, but if we all add ours together it would give people a good idea what we all do, and also the students. We could just put a few lines once or twice a week in a blog, and write about the significant things we have dealt with during the week.
What do ya'll think? Anyone up for that?