Nurses and the profession they represent: A chase that concern`s us all

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you did read probably the title and wonder what it has to do with computers, the truth is that it does not have that this is one of the few times I will deviate from the main theme for the rest of the blog,
Today I have visited Norway `s largest Internet newspaper, and at the bottom of the page was a link to a post made by a nurse, Where she talks briefly about her profession, it is a subject that affects us all at some point in our life.
You can wake up one day that work just like everyone else, but it may soon prove to be one of your worst days for many reasons, But what many take for granted are the people who are there for you that day you end up in health care, The Angles in White, which you can call them is often a forgotten profession for most of us. You can see them mostly on the news to help an old lady walking chair but is often forgotten how low their salaries are, and how much they have to do during the day and how many hours they work in a week.

They are there for you the day you really need them, and they will be there the day you leave them, the Angels in White's job to make sure you have it as good as you can at the moment, they give you medication or they give you food, job dealing with all aspects of life as a whole, they do not have a high salary or normal business hours and often work overtime. Everything to ensure you are doing well, The original post is Norwegian, but I'll translate it here so you all can read it
The original link is here


Care is not appreciated 
When you read in various media, there is little doubt that the need for trained manpower in the health sector will only get bigger and bigger. For years we heard about an "old wave" that allegedly were to hit us like a tsunami. The last I heard was that this wave would now change its name to "old flower". I personally am not so concerned with what we call it, but is rather concerned with the facts. The facts are that the need for trained personnel in the sector will increase in future years.

I work as a nurse at a suitably large hospitals. I'm happy in my job and I am glad that I have taken this training.

The problem is when I talk with people who do not know what to get. When they ask what I like to think that they are considering to start nursing. Based on that I enjoy the job, and I am glad that I have the education I have, so would the answer to such questions is simple. But now they are not. I consistently advise people to start on nursing education ..

Many think this alone is related to the "low" wages we have as nurses, but it's not here you can find my justification. Of course I could have liked more money into the account on 12 of each month, but I think that if you are interested in wealth as has never considered this profession anyway. It makes me so strongly discourages the profession is that in this case is left with a "bachelor" in the low staffing, high time pressure and responsibility be able to imagine ....

When we nurses are at work there is a varying number of patients who trust hundred percent for us. They add just the lives in our hands. We have a responsibility to ensure they get the medicines they need, we care for them, we make sure that all measurements are acceptable and we must be alert to detect changes and developments in the clinical picture. No doctor who stands by the bed when my patients are poor. It is I, the nurse, who stands there. Of course I told the doctor, and it is of course the doctor has the ultimate responsibility, but you could try to stand and hold a very sick patient in his hand while we should think that "oh, it's certainly not my responsibility that this is going well. " This is not one of Norway's nurses screwed together.

We have been seen as a group that always cries out our lament, but is it really so strange? If you ask patients who are important people for them, during such a crisis as an illness is, so is the doctor and nurse they refer. It is almost not a day that one or more patients a nurse refers to the group as "angels in white". When the patient in pain is what we coming with pain killers and when they need someone to talk to it is we who pops up.

For this job, appreciate the state's low funding.

Of course, our purse should be bigger, but the important thing for nurses, I think that they want more jobs and a slightly quieter life. Yes we are certainly lazy, but I'd like to have time to eat my lunch, not to mention to go to the bathroom when I pee penetrated. It happens every so often that I or my colleagues simply do not have time to go to the toilet. We are extremely concerned about what comes out of our patients, but we have not even able to squeeze out the precious drops.

 I'd like and set the economist or the engineer who found that they did not go to the toilet ..

A bit of the reason I'm so skeptical of the profession is because I'm not sure what happens the day I accidentally make a great and fatal mistake. I have often been at work for six hours and I've gotten into my food or drink. Maybe I'm completely in a daze because I am so pee penetrated. I went home from work the night before at 22 and I got up at 06 to reach jobs just this day. Maybe "chunks" and I give wrong medicine to the wrong patient. Maybe I do not see the signs that day that the patient is on my way into the pulmonary edema.

 

What happens then?

 

If the employer would be quickly on hand and say: 

 

"Like this, we just expect us because we are manning the way we do. We think it's okay that some human lives are lost every year because we save money ".

 Then it would be okay. Or had it? No one with Norwegian authorization Nurse will think that this is okay. But then, at least the responsibility is placed where it belongs. As it is today I'm afraid the full responsibility will remain on the poor nurse

Some will obviously say that we must be better to just bring us the breaks we are entitled to, but I want to tell them that when there are people talking about this is not so easy. The same as throwing such comments to me would probably not have been very happy if it was their relatives who remained a half-hour in excruciating pain waiting for the painkillers because the nurse is entitled to a half-hour lunch break. I understand that it is possible to grant himself all sorts of breaks when working with numbers or other cold thing, but did not come and tell me that this is possible when to deal with a face, a name, perhaps a grandmother or perhaps a child .

No more hands in the elderly is needed. It is not me advocating for the profession, but perhaps the state has some good ideas. I'll do my for my patients and colleagues are doing well, but it will be up to Anne Grethe to address health policy (she earns after all, probably five times as much as me).


Now Please take a moment and think about The Angels in White


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