It’s easy to remember the people that care about you every day, whether it be family or friends, but it’s hard to remember the complete strangers that do their little part to make your life a little bit easier. It is nurses and other health care professionals job to care for you in your time of need. “Caring is an example of nurse’s hidden work that may go unrecognized by patients and their families, except when the behaviours and attitudes that constitute caring are missed.” (Robinson Wolf, Riviello Giardino, Osborne & Stahley Ambrose, 1994, p. 107). Mistakes in health care, depending on the severity, are unacceptable but nurses are human like the patients they are treating. This is what patients have to remember. It makes the biggest difference in the nurse’s career to know that they have had an impact on their patient’s life. I know that this is what I am looking forward to when I become a nurse. Remember pay tribute to your nurses.
References
Robinson Wolf, Z., Riviello Giardino, E., Osborne, P., & Stahley Ambrose, M. (1994).
Dimensions of Nurse Caring. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 26(2), 107-112. Retrieved November 21, 2008.
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