Nurses Are Nuts

Nurses have very busy jobs in the hospital, and the other hospital disciplines do not help nurses with their jobs, yet nurses always help them. There are lots of things that the other hospital disciplines can sometimes do to help nurses with their jobs, but they are never done. Nurses, on the other hand, can be found helping out many other disciplines with their jobs. Most of the things that nurses do for the other disciplines do not have to be done and should not be done, but when the other disciplines ask nurses for help with their tasks, the nurse will usually always help them out. There are lots of times when the nurse will do work for other hospital disciplines if those disciplines do not get there to do the job in question in a timely fashion. There are lots of jobs that other disciplines are supposed to do, and if they don't get done at all or in a timely fashion, the blame will fall on the nurse, especially if they involve the patient's safety, and the patient takes a turn for the worse if the job does not get done. Sometimes the nurse will volunteer to do another discipline's job when she does not have to do it. There are also times when the other discipline will ask the nurse to do something that he should do himself and will tell that nurse that he is too busy to do his own job! The nurse, regardless of how busy she is, cannot get the other disciplines to help her with her job. It is my hope that nurses will one day realize that a large majority of what they do for other disciplines does not have to be done and should not be done by nurses.