So hard to care…critical care nursing in Hellas
Journal
Nursing in Critical Care
Date Issued
August 14, 2006
Author(s)
DOI
10.1111/j.1478-5153.2006.00184.x
Abstract
How will more knowledge
help? I have my patients, I have my orders, I know my way.
When the shift is over I go home and that’s the end of it. We need to face it, the decisions are not ours to make [means clinical decision making], they [physicians]
make the decisions, they do not listen to what we have to say, and we might have something to suggest. I used to read a lot, I
attend seminars and conferences, there are things we can do.
NURSING [interviewee’s emphasis] things that will help them [means the patients]. But even nurses do not care, we are exhausted
not able to endure any more you know we work for weeks without a day off? . Yet we are
invisible, they do not respect us.
It is US, WE are the problem. It is like nursing is not a profession.
we are scared to argue. Do not get me wrong, I do believe our contribution, what we have to offer to patients, is TREMENDOUS.
BUT only because we CARE, WE CARE for them
[means the patients]. It is so hard to care
help? I have my patients, I have my orders, I know my way.
When the shift is over I go home and that’s the end of it. We need to face it, the decisions are not ours to make [means clinical decision making], they [physicians]
make the decisions, they do not listen to what we have to say, and we might have something to suggest. I used to read a lot, I
attend seminars and conferences, there are things we can do.
NURSING [interviewee’s emphasis] things that will help them [means the patients]. But even nurses do not care, we are exhausted
not able to endure any more you know we work for weeks without a day off? . Yet we are
invisible, they do not respect us.
It is US, WE are the problem. It is like nursing is not a profession.
we are scared to argue. Do not get me wrong, I do believe our contribution, what we have to offer to patients, is TREMENDOUS.
BUT only because we CARE, WE CARE for them
[means the patients]. It is so hard to care