International Nurses Day - May 12th, 2023
Nurses around the world all deserve recognition, not just today, but every day of the year! Especially having gone through with the Pandemic, nurses have played a role just as important as all the other healthcare workers that worked hand-in-hand to fight against the Pandemic. We've also lost many throughout the outbreaks. Nurses working in hospitals, medical clinics, private clinics, etc. Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, etc.
My current career, I get to communicate a lot with Nurses working in the Operating Room. Although I'm not the one that are with them during the surgeries, but as what my position is called, "OR Core Aide", I'm one of the staff they go to when they need extra instruments or that they are missing from their instrument sets. I would either help them call the appropriate department for the item, or when it's sent up in the elevator, I will be the one handing it off to them in the Operating Room they are in. The hospital I work at, is a smaller one, not a trauma hospital, so the OR doesn't need to be opened for 24hrs, actually, our hospital is not considered as a 24/7 operating times. Only the ER is probably open, Nurses in the OR, are only on call until 11pm, Monday - Friday. So, as Nurses working in the OR at my hospital, they get weekends off, as well as Statutory Holidays.
Nurse Practitioners are usually the ones working in Medical Clinics, at least, that is where I've seen them.
Have you ever met a caring Nurse? What was the encounter like that you had with her/him?