Ok nurses, I'm writing a research paper and I have to prove a point. The one topic I think would be good and related to what I want to do is this one; " Nurses are taught to be more compassionate to patients and develope a certain degree of closeness." Yes please tie in patient advocates. Nurses look after the patients day in and day out but doctors drop by occasionally. I believe nurses truely are patient guardians and spokespeople for them. Any advice or resources to back up this theory would be more than awesome. stories are good too. anything should help and please post fast. I need this evidence for tomorrow. Also i might tie in this paper about how it seems that doctors put off an arrogant air around them towards nurses. I'm not sure about this last bit yet but diffinitly help with the topic stated about. thank you very much for your input.

This topic is no longer needed for my research. Thank you to all who wanted to help. I appreciate it very much. If you wish to keep posting in here because you think it might help other people then go ahead. I just don't need the information anymore.

hi smee... your work is also related with my paper, Im a nursing student and im on the way to my research defense this upcoming month of march. mine is the communication between nurse and client, all about the barriers between it. so.. um.....REMEMBER that first thing first......... DOCTOR cures........... NURSES cares.... (^^,) Yeah, your post is true. Doctors aonly drop by inside their patients room for only a short time. but we, nurses.. we are the one who is always beside the patients. Nurse's characteristic of being humble,compassionate,kind,loving and soft hearted is not a lesson that our instructors taught us, but it is the inner soul of a good nurse. it is hidden deep inside our heart. you must love your work, your responsibilities and most of all... your client. good communication starts from us (nurses). we should be open minded, patient's do love friendly and cheerful nurses. They also love their doctors.. but nurses are the one who is always with them. here, check this out. the difference between doctors and nurses...

-Nurses act very much like soldiers on the front line, winning the small battles and calling upon the doctor when big problems arise. They interact with patients on a more personal level while the "generals" oversee the larger operation.

- Doctors also deal with much of business and politics that are associated with running a efficient and profitable medical practice. So while doctors and nurses do both share the same physical workspace, both play different positions on the field and view their environments in completely different ways.

-Nurses are educated to know how to perform many different tasks so as to free up time for a more specialized Doctor, who is usually focused on very technical aspects of medical care.

-Put a doctor and a nurse of the same age together, and I'll guarantee you the nurse has had more actual hands on experience at her job than the doctor has. The doc spends many years in school while the nurse was already getting their hands dirty on the job.

Differences between doctors’ and nurses’ communication with patients
Nurses’ contributions tended to be:

·  more dependent on interaction

·  connected and built to fit with, open to patients’ (and doctors’)

contributions,

·  more local and immediate in direction, tying with what has just

been said

Doctors’ contributions tended to be:

·  more self-sufficient and complete in themselves

·  distanced from, and independent of, patients’ (and nurses’)

contributions,

·  more extensive and far-reaching, imparting a sense of direction and

a trajectory that transcended patients’ (and nurses’) talk

·  Nurses tended to remain open to suggestion from the patient (or doctor), and

this offered opportunities for patients to say more.

·  When patients were talking, nurses tended to be open to the patient

continuing, whereas doctors tended to be moving on to a next turn or phase

in the consultation.

·  At those same points where nurses tended to invite patients to expand,

doctors tended to close down sequences of talk.

·  This gave doctors’ consultations a sense of direction not present in nurse

consultations. At the same time, it precluded certain opportunities for the

patient to speak.

i hope this post of mine wl help you :)

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