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I'm not a nurse, but I work in a hospital as a critical care tech in the ICU. I have nothing but respect for nurses. Looks like to me that doctors decide what to order mainly based on what the nurses observe. Why they don't get paid more is beyond me.

The work I do is mainly to help the nurses. The nurses are the ones who get the complaints about the bad food, lousy bed. The nurses get the insults from families. The nurses get things thrown at them, get hit, punched, spit on, cursed at. The nurses have to explain that they can't do something until the doctor orders it and then get called over and over again to the patient's room to hear the patient ask over and over again "has the doctor ordered it yet? Can't you call him again?"

I can't stand to watch the sniveling talk shows where some movie star comes on and makes a big deal out of how much work they do and things like that. After spending 5 years, 2 in a nursing home and 2 1/2 in a hospital and seeing the suffering of the patients and the miracles we call nurses, I can't stand to hear alot of the whining elsewhere.

I was a bit down last night & I guess my posts reflect that- didn't mean to sound harsh- IO have nothing but repesct for nurses & docs & all those who work in hospitals- you folks have to do some of the worst things sometimes & don't get credit- usually people are feeling so rotton after surgeries that we just don't have a good attitude sometimes & the drugs can make us kinda grumpy too- I really do try to keep from being grumpy-- but again, from a patients perspecitve, the drugs can over-ride good manners sometimes.

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