Category Archives: Nurse Ethics
How to know that nursing is your calling?
Remember the time you were admitted in a hospital? Who was the first person to attend to you? The person who waited with you till the doctor came? It’s the same person who was there to hold your hands, when you got injection in middle of the night. Yes, it was a nurse who took care you. Do you see yourself as doing something to similar nature in the future? If the answer is yes, know that irrespective of what salaries and perks you will get, nursing is not an easy task. If you too are one of those who have heard glorious things about the work, but are still unsure if that is you, this article might help in deciding. Here are a few things that nurses do every day, let’s see if you can do them too.
8 Brilliant Ways For Nurses To Find Positivity at Work
The hard work of nurses is often ignored whenever the well-being of patients is discussed. Though nurses cannot treat and cure the patients like doctors do, but it is unfair to ignore the efforts that nurses put in for maintaining the hygiene and medicine schedules of their patients. Needless to say, nurses are the ones who stay up all night for their patients and take care of them round the clock. Being a nurse, you would understand that it is not only people outside your nursing community that are critical to your job. In order to survive, you will need to fight a battle with your co-workers as well. Fighting a constant battle along with the work load may make you feel low at times. So, take a look at the following few tips to stay positive at workplace:
Will Hiring Overseas Fix the Nursing Shortage Crisis in the UK?
A year doesn’t go by without a un-PC gaffe by Prince Philip, and 2013 was no different. Philip’s first royal engagement of the year was to open a £5.5 million cardiac centre at Luton hospital back in February. Upon meeting a Filipino nurse, the 91 year old royal commented that the Philippines “must be half empty – you’re all here running the NHS!” The gaffe was taken in good humour, but revealed a lot about the rise of overseas workers, especially nurses, in the NHS. read more …
Ethical Issues New Nurses May Want to Become Familiar With.
Tina is gasping. Her mother and daughter are by her side. They see the horror and exhaustion in her eyes as she struggles along not because she wants to but because of anxiety, confusion, and force of habit. Tina suffers from ALS, a degenerative disease, and is now in the last stage of the disease. She signed a do not resuscitate/do not intubate document (DNR/DNI) which allowed her to forego the futility of dragging on the inevitable. You are the hospice nurse on site. The family is begging you to do something to alleviate her pain. Included in the medical options available to you is a PRN order for an antispasmodic/paralytic agent.
