Comments on: Grey's Anatomy – True or False http://travelnursingblogs.com/nursing-in-general/patient-expectations/ Tips for your travel nursing life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:19:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: killersuz http://travelnursingblogs.com/nursing-in-general/patient-expectations/comment-page-1/#comment-210 killersuz Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:03:00 +0000 http://www.travelnursingblogs.com/?p=691#comment-210 I would agree. Nurses seem to be unable to do anything unless told what to do. Last time I worked a night shift they were telling me to do what I wanted, and to let them sleep. WE (nurses) are the ones that need to get out there and inform people what we really do and that we don't just take blood pressures and change bed pans...we are more than that. Suz RN 15yrs I would agree. Nurses seem to be unable to do anything unless told what to do. Last time I worked a night shift they were telling me to do what I wanted, and to let them sleep. WE (nurses) are the ones that need to get out there and inform people what we really do and that we don’t just take blood pressures and change bed pans…we are more than that. Suz RN 15yrs

]]> By: @rdfraser http://travelnursingblogs.com/nursing-in-general/patient-expectations/comment-page-1/#comment-209 @rdfraser Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:07:35 +0000 http://www.travelnursingblogs.com/?p=691#comment-209 I have not experienced this yet, and I don't think that these televisions show would ever produce an experience when the patient has an experience worse than portrayed. On the whole I believe that these shows have a very negative portrail of nurses. Many of the dramatizations show very stereotypical, or negative protrails of nurses. Other than ER, I can think of few televisions shows that demonstrate that nurses have their own scope of practice, contribute to the decision making for care of patients or that they are self-regulated health professionals. I can understand how these shows may give patients a false sense of reality and perception of what happens in a healthcare environment, but I hardly think of many opportunities that the level of care provided by nurses is much worse than is predicted by these shows. I have not experienced this yet, and I don’t think that these televisions show would ever produce an experience when the patient has an experience worse than portrayed. On the whole I believe that these shows have a very negative portrail of nurses. Many of the dramatizations show very stereotypical, or negative protrails of nurses. Other than ER, I can think of few televisions shows that demonstrate that nurses have their own scope of practice, contribute to the decision making for care of patients or that they are self-regulated health professionals.

I can understand how these shows may give patients a false sense of reality and perception of what happens in a healthcare environment, but I hardly think of many opportunities that the level of care provided by nurses is much worse than is predicted by these shows.

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