P.S. Conflict of interest. My beloved mother was a nurse before she was a
mother and my current wife is a nurse.
[Paul Bailey]
I wonder what your future wife will do.
PB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vic" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: I think we have this all wrong
I feel I started part of this. Let me make it clear. Experienced nurses have
always taught doctors what to do when they were training. Experienced nurses
are more appreciated by patients than inexperienced doctors. But if you make
the experienced nurses into ENP's, who spots the potential for the pressure
sore? Or is the patient just left in the shit?
Nursing and doctoring are two different, and sometimes opposed systems that
are essential to save life. I don't care who does what, in 1975 I told the
night sisters on my ward that if they defibrillated and intubated whilst
they waited for me to arrive then I had done it. I trained them and trusted
them, they trusted me. I helped change beds, they gave heparins. I covered
them, they covered me. If the ENP's do my old job, who does theirs?
Patients still piss, puke, bleed and crap. But who the hell cares now?
Please tell me that the nursing care is still there, 'cos I'm growing old,
and one day I'll need my arse wiping..
Vic Calland
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