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Nursing Ideal #1
In spite of what we nurses know about our work (which is anything but simple), it all goes bak to a simple ideal of caring for someone in need.
Simplicity is also needed in our language to our patients, who get frightened if we spout off medical jargon to them.
Simplicity means that we help our co-workerswhenever we can, just to get the job done, instead of pushing it off onto someone else's shoulders. You never know when you too, will need that helping hand.
Simplicity in nursing can also refer to meeting a pt's basic needs: feeding them when they cannot feed themselves, changing their diapers right away when they are incontinent, instead of waiting for someone else to do it, and providing human touch and tenderness, for those who are alone.
Even though technology and illness make things more complicated for the average nurse, nursing is really about simplicity.
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Nursing Ideal #2
Even though we are sometimes so busy on a pot-op unit, or things are chaotic in an emergency department, it is our job as nurses, to provide holistic nursing care.
We have to visualize our patients as complete beings with a mind, heart, and spirit as well as a body. Often times, the body cannot heal itself, if the spirit is in turmoil. This is when we should be sitting down with our patients and talking to them about what's wrong. If we really are too busy, we should offer the chaplaincy service, and a translator if need be.
Spirituality is also about taking the time to get personally involved (even though we have been taught not to). It's about grieving when you have lost a patient, and providing support to the family members even if they are hostile.
So don't forget that behind that tracheostomy, and beneath that necrotic bedsore, there is a spirit.
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Nursing Ideal #2
Here at Idealnurse.com we belive that nursing is about reaching out. During our day in the hospital or in the community, we are constantly reaching out a helping hand for those who have trouble ambulating, patients that are unable to feed themselves, and those who are unable to go to the washrooms themselves. We even turn and reposition bedridden patients to prevent them from getting bedsores. We clean the mouth and eyes of patients who are comatose or nearly comatose. We tidy the rooms so the patients can feel at home as much as possible. But nursing is more than that. As a nurse, when you see someone in trouble -- even in your personal life away from work -- it is part of our personality to reach out to help those who are less fortunate than ourselves. The next time you see a street person needing some food -- bring them some. The next time you see an elderly person slip and fall -- help them up. Reaching out to others, is what it's all about.
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