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11-15-2021, 10:05 PM
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Re: Man Takes a Child to a Health Clinic and Shoots the Doctor
Well, the doctors are the ones who REALLY know what's going on. THEY are the ones who have to spend nearly a decade in school, and learn from experience, in order to make an EDUCATED decision to decide what is right for a particular patient. Nurses are there to offer comfort and to perform medical actions that have been performed successfully so many times to the point of routine, that even a layman could do it properly. I'm not trying to lessen the contributions of nurses, because that would be like trying to lessen the contribution of an arm to a hand, but the doctors work more like fingertips....they are the ones at the forefront, and the nurses know how to contain whatever the fingers to. |
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11-17-2021, 12:25 AM
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Re: Man Takes a Child to a Health Clinic and Shoots the Doctor
this guy gets it I'll never diminish what nurses do because they do a ton of important work. but yes, there is caring for patients and there is CARING for patients. example: last week i had a patient in the hospital with acute pancreatitis. initial management of that is heavy amounts of fluids. the nurse asks "so why are we just giving him massive amounts of fluids" I explained to her how we treat pancreatitis. a day later the guy starts getting fevers, so while we are working him up i start antibiotics. do i expect the nurse to know how to treat pancreatitis and what to do and what to order when he developed a fever? no...she didn't train to do that. am i thankful for her knowledge when it came time to run a piggyback IV for the antibiotics and fluids? hell yeah i was! we're one big team with one goal: get the patient better! |