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Happy New Year!!! At the end of December, codeblog turned 9 years old. It amazes me that I’ve been doing this for that long. I was so excited when I was asked questions for the Reader’s Digest article “50 Things Your Nurse Won’t Tell You.” My comments appeared in print, and in the online version [...]
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Sign in nowCongrats on being printed in Reader’s Digest, and also congrats on being voted one of the top nursing blogs of 2011!
Just in case you where not not aware of it, here is the post: http://www.resumeservicesonline.com/blog/resume/top-36-nursing-blogs-to-help-with-your-nursing-career/
Keep up the great work!
I agree with your comment as well. As a nurse, I don’t always know what the best treatment is (especially when it comes to something like cancer, but even in my specialty), but I will be able to help guide a patient through the experience. The doctor is usually the best for explaining options. Plus, with some patients, no matter if the doctor and I use the exact same words, the patient wants to hear from the doctor.
Well congratulations of your “9″ years of blogging and congratulations on your posts with Reader’s Digest.
I felt pretty honoured myself this year as I my blog and postings were noted and referenced in the Canadian Nurse January edition.
As for telling the patient. I’m with you. I don’t tell them, or I tell yes they are in but that they will have to speak to the doctor about their results. I let them know I am not at the liberty to tell and or know what the doctor has planned for a course of action if any.
I got tired of not being able to tell the patient their information, so I went back to school so that I could. Of course, it’s not a reasonable goal for everyone but stranger things have motivated nurses to further their educations! Congrats on the inclusion in RD!
See, that’s what I mean though – “Yes, they are in, but I can’t discuss them” seems cruel to me. That’s why I’d probably tell them they weren’t back yet.
I wish we as nurses could tell the patient more about their situation. Congrats on the RD publish!
Surgery can be scary. I’ve had 5 over the last 2 years, the most serious being an anterior cervical spine fusion. The one that hurt the most afterwards was the knee arthroscopy for a torn meniscus.
Glad you live through your surgery.