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It's not all bad!
by LauraRN | Oct 29 '00
Pros: rewarding, making a difference in people's lives, flexible hours, many different career options
Cons: backbreaking, stressful, little respect
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Re: ADN (Reply to this comment)
by LauraRN
If you read my article you will notice that I said the idea of getting an associates degree was a stupid idea for me because I was already enrolled in a 4 year school. I never said anything bad about ADN nurses. Maybe you should read more carefully before starting the age old debate.
Laura
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Jan 08 '03
5:48 am PST
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Re: I appreciate your perspective on your experience, but..... (Reply to this comment)
by LauraRN
You're absolutely right. My point about the speech pathologist was that the nurse is often pulled in several different directions by many different specialties and each of them expects the nurse to do what they want them to do right then and there. There was one particular speech pathologist that would get very upset if she wanted to do a swallowing evaluation on a patient and that patient's nurse didn't materialize in 3 seconds. She didn't seem to see that other people are busy too and she would just have to wait until the nurse got her other patient off the bedpan or whatever. I believe that is lack of respect that the nurse is also a busy professional, just like the speech pathologist. We don't call the speech pathologists for evals and expect them to show up in 3 seconds, because they are busy! Nurses deserve the same kind of respect and often don't receive it because they are viewed as the person who will do whatever the other person doesn't want to do. I didn't say the speech pathologists were mean.
Thank you for reading my review.
Laura
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Jan 02 '01
8:23 am PST
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I appreciate your perspective on your experience, but..... (Reply to this comment)
by jsaunt
....as someone who works in a hospital, I have known many nurses who do command respect, and many others who do not by their attitudes toward those they care for. The same could be said about any profession--physicians, attorneys, teachers, physical therapists, and even a mean speech pathologist who might ask for your help in suctioning a patient who is unable to swallow safely.
Leslie, SLP
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Jan 01 '01
3:16 pm PST
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Re: I gained a new respect (Reply to this comment)
by LauraRN
That's really nice to hear.
Thanks for reading my review.
Laura :)
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Dec 01 '00
6:56 pm PST
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I gained a new respect (Reply to this comment)
by purrkitty
for nurses when I looked after my Mom during her last week with lung cancer...
The paleocare nurses who came into the house every day where the only thing that made me keep my sanity.
I have never seen such professionalism, and I just wouldn't have made it through that week without them.
>^.^<
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Nov 30 '00
2:43 pm PST
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