How the nurse makes it possible

The day drags on; you hang in there until the job is finally complete. You are exhausted, tired, and sure something is clearly wrong. Arriving in the emergency department is never one of those moments you expect. Staff greetings are quickly followed by people taking your vital signs, pressure on various parts of your body, and placing you under X-ray machines. Symptoms come and go, and verdicts are read. Good news or bad, you have just been put thru a million-dollar work up all made possible by the dedicated healthcare workers of America.
Chances are one of the first faces greeting you was that of a nurse. From arrival to departure the nurse makes it all possible. Whether it is 7 a.m. Monday morning or midnight Saturday, the nurse will be there to greet you, assist you, carry out physician orders, monitor you, cry, laugh, and heal. After 20 years of nursing, it is my pleasure to help you understand exactly what nurses do.
To keep this post from reaching ten thousand pages, I will keep this dedicated to the hospital setting, more specifically on an acute-care medical unit. To the naked eye, nurses seem to run around and act busy. Fair enough since we often do this. What else is going on as the nurse sits at the desk, is on the phone, looks at computer screens, or talks with the physician? The nurse makes acts in a variety of ways to make it possible for the person sick or injured to get better.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 2, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/john-green" rel="tag" > John Green, RN < /a > Tags: Conditions Hospital-Based Medicine Infectious Disease Nursing Source Type: blogs