Comments on: the H in nursing http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html a nurse blog. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:47:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: blogosphere buzz #2: “the intellectual nurses” » about a nurse http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-83650 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:17:09 +0000 http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-83650 [...] i have mentioned this in a post a long time ago, and i will say it again. we cannot work with just our head, overruled by theories and scientific explanations we memorized and understood in unitversities and act like we do not have hands therefore we are not supposed to clean up poop. it is not enough that we know what a dirty behind can do to a patient. it is not enough that we have the hands to keep them clean. if we are rough and impersonal, not valuing a patient’s privacy because we think keeping them clean is enough, we are wrong. [...] […] i have mentioned this in a post a long time ago, and i will say it again. we cannot work with just our head, overruled by theories and scientific explanations we memorized and understood in unitversities and act like we do not have hands therefore we are not supposed to clean up poop. it is not enough that we know what a dirty behind can do to a patient. it is not enough that we have the hands to keep them clean. if we are rough and impersonal, not valuing a patient’s privacy because we think keeping them clean is enough, we are wrong. […]

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]]> by: House Cleaning Professionals Are Licensed http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-69668 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:28:32 +0000 http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-69668 <strong>How to Clean Your House in a Hurry!</strong> You're lying on the couch in your living room, in one of your husband's old t-shirts and a pair of baggie sweatpants, watching last night's taped episode of Desperate Housewives, when suddenly - the phone rings. You don't recognize the number on ca... How to Clean Your House in a Hurry!

You’re lying on the couch in your living room, in one of your husband’s old t-shirts and a pair of baggie sweatpants, watching last night’s taped episode of Desperate Housewives, when suddenly - the phone rings. You don’t recognize the number on ca…

]]> by: Heb http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-14413 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:35:18 +0000 http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-14413 Hi May, Loved your 3 H's. Our instructor said to us, "It is more important to be a good nurse rather than a nice nurse". I knew what she meant right away and still remember to this day. I "reflect" on my practice everyday as I remember a presentation in N.school on this very subject and going through all the papers to collect enough info on "Reflective Practice". It does make you think and become "better". I also remember another Nurse saying we have to "move forward" after we've made a mistake. Another said "to fix it in the moment, and not let it go on forever".... I can think of another "H"--health, ours and our patients.. Hi May,
Loved your 3 H’s.
Our instructor said to us, “It is more important to be a good nurse rather than a nice nurse”. I knew what she meant right away and still remember to this day. I “reflect” on my practice everyday as I remember a presentation in N.school on this very subject and going through all the papers to collect enough info on “Reflective Practice”. It does make you think and become “better”. I also remember another Nurse saying we have to “move forward” after we’ve made a mistake. Another said “to fix it in the moment, and not let it go on forever”….
I can think of another “H”–health, ours and our patients..

]]> by: host http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-9183 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:34:51 +0000 http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-9183 am a nursing student and i find your 3H formula just magic....unfortunately not everyone use their HEAD to start with...across my placements i have seen managers/ charge nurses running and panicking as headless chicken with no sense of planning or prioritising....its a pity HEART - i ahve also seen HCA abusing over patients - wrong manual handling and adressing them as if they were just a piece of shiii ....or some nurses with the attitude of // oh i just cannot be bothered - he will wee or pooh again so leave it for next shift... god knows why they still do this job? Money i doubt - some jobs are better much paid than nursing HANDS - Managers and charge nurses often forget who they are ... i have seen managers or charge nurses just ignoring the bell from patients opposite the nurses station...even if it was for a tissue / cup of tea / towel / adjusting blanket - simple patient demands were unmet while the team allocated to the unit were sweating with the daily chores. Hands that are ready to help to deliver quality care seem to be a disappearing specy. having said so - i have also come across fabulous teams who are ever ready to apply the 3H - i wish i join such a team after i graduate. everyone should reflect on this 3H to underpin am a nursing student and i find your 3H formula
just magic….unfortunately not everyone use their
HEAD to start with…across my placements i have seen
managers/ charge nurses running and panicking as
headless chicken with no sense of planning or prioritising….its a pity

HEART - i ahve also seen HCA abusing over patients -
wrong manual handling and adressing them as if they
were just a piece of shiii ….or some nurses with the attitude of // oh i just cannot be bothered -
he will wee or pooh again so leave it for next shift… god knows why they still do this job?
Money i doubt - some jobs are better much paid than nursing

HANDS - Managers and charge nurses often forget who they are … i have seen managers or charge nurses
just ignoring the bell from patients opposite the
nurses station…even if it was for a tissue / cup of tea / towel / adjusting blanket - simple patient demands were unmet while the team allocated to the unit were sweating with the daily chores. Hands that are ready to help to deliver quality care seem to be
a disappearing specy.

having said so - i have also come across fabulous
teams who are ever ready to apply the 3H -
i wish i join such a team after i graduate.

everyone should reflect on this 3H to underpin

]]> by: intelinurse2b http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6482 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:13:42 +0000 http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6482 I'm a newly licensed LPN and an RN student and I am very moved by this post. Wonderful! Thank you for the insight. I’m a newly licensed LPN and an RN student and I am very moved by this post. Wonderful! Thank you for the insight.

]]> by: Liana http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6150 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:32:46 +0000 http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6150 Hi, I found your post through emergiblog. I'm a resident doc and just wanted to say that your post sums up everything that I try to do everyday, albeit in a slightly different way. It also makes me thankful (yet again) for good nurses! Thank you for a beautiful post. Liana Hi,

I found your post through emergiblog. I’m a resident doc and just wanted to say that your post sums up everything that I try to do everyday, albeit in a slightly different way. It also makes me thankful (yet again) for good nurses!

Thank you for a beautiful post.

Liana

]]> by: Eileen http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6138 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:04:16 +0000 http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6138 What an inspiring post. There are too many nurses leaving because of their inability to do all that they want to do and therefore feel unfulfilled and ineffective. It's hard to keep going back but without nurses like you, with your commitment, the patients suffer even more. Hang in there. What an inspiring post. There are too many nurses leaving because of their inability to do all that they want to do and therefore feel unfulfilled and ineffective. It’s hard to keep going back but without nurses like you, with your commitment, the patients suffer even more.

Hang in there.

]]> by: shrimplate http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6065 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:05:15 +0000 http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6065 Things take time. Bureaucrats have little concept of this. They dwell in small rooms in which time goes by at the rate of continental drift. That is to say, quite slowly. And they take regular breaks and eat lunch every day at 12:30. For that, can they be trusted? No. Things take time.

Bureaucrats have little concept of this.

They dwell in small rooms in which time goes by at the rate of continental drift. That is to say, quite slowly.

And they take regular breaks and eat lunch every day at 12:30. For that, can they be trusted?

No.

]]> by: unsinkablemb http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6053 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:41:53 +0000 http://www.aboutanurse.com/2007/01/the-h-in-nursing.html#comment-6053 Wonderful post, May! Hang in there... I hope they change their minds about the PCA situation. ~m. Wonderful post, May! Hang in there… I hope they change their minds about the PCA situation.
~m.

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