tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455700514377143758.post6445068446100163062..comments2024-03-28T07:00:06.844+00:00Comments on Now Appearing: What has happened to nursing?Brian Clegghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12723555872580740773noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455700514377143758.post-86112907357946271322017-03-15T07:48:44.351+00:002017-03-15T07:48:44.351+00:00Thank you for sharing. Its informative and full of...Thank you for sharing. Its informative and full of information.Nursing in Australiahttp://www.medicaljobsaustralia.com/jobs/australia/nurses-and-midwives/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455700514377143758.post-71769650662474842222011-11-17T19:15:18.244+00:002011-11-17T19:15:18.244+00:00Thanks for that interesting insight. I am sure a l...Thanks for that interesting insight. I am sure a lot of nurses still remember the 'human' side of nursing, but your observation sadly doesn't seem to be unique.Brian Clegghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12723555872580740773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455700514377143758.post-12863394183867017522011-11-17T16:50:52.057+00:002011-11-17T16:50:52.057+00:00I was a med-surg nurse from the 1960's until...I was a med-surg nurse from the 1960's until the early 1990's, who voluntarily and reluctantly left the profession I loved to enter a more "lucrative" field. For many years, I rarely graced a hospital door until the past four years, at which time a some family members have required hospitalization. What has come to my attention about changes in nursing is threefold. First, the nurses with whom I have come into contact recently appear very competent "medically" speaking, but basic nursing measures such as turning and ambulating patients and basic hygiene seems to be relegated to family members or overlooked. Secondly, most nurses appear to be relatively humorless. Everything is strictly business. It appears that most of them only know a patient as a diagnosis, not as a human being. Technology also seems to have replaced personal contact. Most nurses rarely smile. Thirdly, when a physician tells a patient he or she will visit, it usually means a physician's assistant or nurse practitioner will visit. It is often impossible to speak directly to the medical doctor or surgeon. I have observed these factors to be prevalent in several hospitals, in different states. I had considered returning to school and re-entering the medical/nursing field, but I did not think I would be happy in this seemingly impersonal, high-tech setting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4455700514377143758.post-86569213325379286012011-10-14T10:58:37.377+01:002011-10-14T10:58:37.377+01:00"At the beginning of the 20th century, it was..."At the beginning of the 20th century, it was asserted that Nightingale reduced the death rate from 42% to 2% either by making improvements in hygiene herself or by calling for the Sanitary Commission. The 1911 first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography made this claim, but the second edition in 2001 did not. However, death rates did not drop: they began to rise. The death count was the highest of all hospitals in the region. During her first winter at Scutari, 4,077 soldiers died there. Ten times more soldiers died from illnesses such as typhus, typhoid, cholera and dysentery than from battle wounds. Conditions at the temporary barracks hospital were so fatal to the patients because of overcrowding and the hospital's defective sewers and lack of ventilation. A Sanitary Commission had to be sent out by the British government to Scutari in March 1855, almost six months after Florence Nightingale had arrived, and effected flushing out the sewers and improvements to ventilation. Death rates were sharply reduced. During the war she did not recognise hygiene as the predominant cause of death, and she never claimed credit for helping to reduce the death rate."Henryhttp://www.henryberry.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com