WHAT DOES A NURSE REALLY DO?

Question

i am considering becoming a RN (Registered Nurse) although latey i have been having many doubts about it because i heard they have to clean up pee, poop and vomit is this true??? i always thought this was a janitors job

Answer 1

You are right it's not purely your job. Cleaning pee, poop or vomit is not the job of a hospital nurse but in some hospitals or polyclinics nurses are forced to do. So it depends. If you want to become RN, no matter, just make an agreement with the hospital incharge about it that you are not suppose to do it. Simple.

Answer 2

From what I know nurses do have to clean pee, poop and vomit, if the patient is still in a room waiting to see the doctor, and any of those kind of things happen. The janitor only cleans it, after the patient have left and is done seeing the doctor, not before or during. I don't know about outside in the waiting room in the front, where the check in area is. I remember in an episode of ER, Julianna Margulies's Nurse Carol Hathaway, the head Nurse had to give a homeless patient a bath at the hospital. There are also the not so bad things nurses do, like giving the blood, watching a patient in recovery room after surgary(leave the same day type surgary), weighing the patient and taking the patient's blood pressure.

If you still don't want to be a doctor and go through all the medical school, which cost so much, and still be paying so many years after you get out. I would say think about becoming a physician assistant. My guess is this a step better then a nurse, and when a doctor is not able to be there in the same room in the ER, you can take control as the lead until he or she get there, even when they are just in the next room. That is the impression I got from ER on Gloria Reuben's Jeanie Boulet, who is a physician assistant. If you or anyone who wants more info on physician assistant, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician%27s_Assistant http://www.medicalcareerinfo.com/physician_assistant.htm



Just to let you and everyone else know, I am not in the medical field at all. So I might be wrong on some stuff.

Answer 3

Nurses do everything a doctor does and cleans up patients urine, feces, and vomit. The only thing different between a nurse and a doctor...a few years of medical training about about 100K more a year.



Janitors clean the HOSPITAL, not the patients.



-Em

Answer 4

-they do a LOT of paperwork

-make sure the LPN's, aides, pharmacy techs ..etc are doing their job for the best of the patients

-they are in contact with the MD and or resident MDs as needed regarding a patients condition and care

-they do clean up a mess if necessary

-they monitor lab values

-they are the patients and family's counselor

- they make sure the narcotic count is correct

-they get info from the last shift and pick up what ever problem hasnt been completed

-they have patients lives in their hands

Answer 5

Are You KIDDING !!! :o -EVERY thing a Doctor doesn't !!! And Believe Me; there would be NO "Health Care System"- if there WERE No Nurses..! So PLEASE train to become one. The Work is hard- but the Pay is GOOD- & you can get a job in almost ANY Hospital in the Country ! :)

Answer 6

Nurses treat the patients like children when they actually go in the hospital room to see them. The rest of the time they are hiding at the nurses station pretending to be helping other patients.

Answer 7

that's what nurses aids are for. RN's don't do the dirty work like that how ever you will need a strong stomach as some patients come into the er all torn up.

Answer 8

i think the job descriptions you are stating belong more to LPN (Licensed Practitioner Nurse). My friend is an ER nurse and usually deals with very critical situations she loves her job and a little less of her co-workers lol.

Answer 9

It's a vague question because RNs can specialize in a many areas hospice, er etc. Think of them as a Dr.s pit crew. M.D's have the know how and run the show but all else is done by RNs.

Answer 10

they do the real work as well as that in rare cases but they put in IVs, take vitals,symptom,charts,assist doctors , realy u should become a nurse practitioner u will ahve more responsibility like u can up dosage on meds and dont have to wait on comfirmation from the docter

Answer 11

Yes it is true......those 'janitor' jobs are not beneath us you know! we also do 100 other things too.

Answer 12

they are like the mothers of the patients. give them whatever they need, keep them in good condition, maintain good health, etc.

Answer 13

Wipe asses and screw doctors.