What is the hardest part about being a nurse in today's society?
I am asking this question because every year something gets improved or things change, and that can make it difficult for new incoming nurses.
2 answers
Pradeep’s Answer
Make life-and-death decisions for 7 people based on a 5-minute shift report?
Get berated by a physician for forgetting one thing when you have remembered 100 other things?
Think about what you are going to have for lunch while cleaning an emesis basis or a bedpan?
Have to know the etiology, classification, dosage, side effects, contraindications, and compatibility for 18,000 different medications?
Need to know the significance of obscure lab results and whether the doctor should be awakened at 3am because of them?
Have to obtain a physician's order to give a patient a Tylenol but have the authority to float a Swan-Ganz catheter through a patient's heart to measure central venous pressure and pulmonary artery pressure?
Coordinate respiratory therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, radiology, dietary, social services, consulting specialists, and wound care nurses for 7 patients but somehow forget where you put your car keys?
Spend 12 hours on your feet only to be told by your personal physician that you need to get more exercise?
Own 20 sets of nursing scrubs and own zero sets without a stain on them?
Thank you so much for answering my question.
Lamisha
philson’s Answer
Make life-and-death decisions for 7 people based on a 5-minute shift report?
Get berated by a physician for forgetting one thing when you have remembered 100 other things?
Think about what you are going to have for lunch while cleaning an emesis basis or a bedpan?
Have to know the etiology, classification, dosage, side effects, contraindications, and compatibility for 18,000 different medications?
Need to know the significance of obscure lab results and whether the doctor should be awakened at 3am because of them?
Have to obtain a physician's order to give a patient a Tylenol but have the authority to float a Swan-Ganz catheter through a patient's heart to measure central venous pressure and pulmonary artery pressure?
Coordinate respiratory therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, radiology, dietary, social services, consulting specialists, and wound care nurses for 7 patients but somehow forget where you put your car keys?
Spend 12 hours on your feet only to be told by your personal physician that you need to get more exercise?
Own 20 sets of nursing scrubs and own zero sets without a stain on them?