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1. Touching with a caring touch.
2. Listening to patients experiences.
3. Seeing the critically ill get better.
4. To hug a family member and have them say thank you.
5. Have a good cry with a family member.

1. Encourage staff to care and support new members and never stop.
2. Do not complain unless you have a viable solution
3. No clicks, the unit is a team.
4. An admin. that will say thank you and mean it.
5. Train, teach new nurses. Lets stop tossing them out of the nest to let them crash or fly. Developing a nurses attitude about nursing starts in the first 6 months.

just my opinion and every body has one

[Anonymous]

1. Knowing you have everything you need to do your job in your hands and head.
2. Helping patients understand how to take care of themselves.
3. Being a liasion between patients and doctors.
4. Getting what your patient needs even if it makes a doc upset.
5. Bonding with people.


1. Being understood by administation.
2. Having administration believe you when you tell them you need more staff and that you aren't lazy or slow.
3. Having management reward us with something other than pizza..Come on guys put some thought into it.
4. Letting student nurses learn from experienced nurses.
5. Starting an apprenticeship form of nursing education.

WR,,, three commas for Becca

I wouldn't want to do anything else.. Nursing has been good to me.

[mercynurse]

1.Actually helping people and making a difference in their lives.
2.Helping paitients and their families understand their medical condition and answering their questions.
3. Facilitating a new or inexperienced nurse in the transition from student to staff nurse.
4. Working with other nurses, intellegent, caring people who do their best to care for the sick and dying.
5. Learning, always new concepts and material to keep up on.

1. Administrators who have no idea what the real work world is like.
2. Physicians who think they are infallable.
3. Physicians who lie, out right to families.
4. Physicians who withhold information from patients.
5. Red tape that ties the hands of the nurse at the patient's expense.

Thanks...this is a good one!!