The Three R ' s of Nursing

This blog post about what nurses really need and want was published in 2013; it ' s been updated for nursing in 2017. Enjoy!There are some very basic things that nurses look for--and deserve--in the course of their nursing careers. It ' s clear that this list could probably be expanded to include many other ideas as well. I posited in that previous post that there are "Three R ' s" of nursing, and I identified them as respect, remuneration, and recognition.In the aforementioned post, named "The Nursing Class Hero" , I stated the following:Back in the day, nursing was a non-professional, relatively unskilled form of labor wherein nurses were at the beck and call of all-powerful physicians. Over a long period of time, nursing lacked any quantifiable scientific data or practices to underscore the importance of our contributions, thus we were relegated to a rather working class level of recognition, remuneration and respect (the "Three R ' s" which I just identified).  Since we ' ve now identified my three R ' s, let ' s examine each one, shall we?RecognitionWe all want to be recognized, both for our efforts and who we are. As I stated in the previous paragraph, nurses lacked recognition of their importance for decades. In Victorian times, nurses were often seen as " loose women "  and " opium users " with poor morals, gallivanting with doctors when they should have been home in the kitchen baking cookies, feeding babies, and ministering to their husbands ' needs.E...
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