Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are ________ to provide nursing care only. We do not have any legal or moral ________ to any physician. We provide health teaching, ________ physical as well as emotional problems, ________ patient-related services, and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. If, in any ________, we feel that a physician’s order is ________ or unsafe, we have a legal ________ to question that order or refuse to carry it out.
Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession. The emotional and physical stress. However, that occurs due to odd working hours is a ________ reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction. ____________________. That disturbs our personal lives, disrupts our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except job-related friends and activities.
The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations.____________________. Consumers of medically related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand changes in our medical system. But if trends continue as predicted, _______________.
licensed obligation assess coordinate circumstance inappropriate responsibility prime It is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we change shifts four or five times a month. Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced nurses finally give up trying to change the system. they will find that most critical hospital cares will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.