Nurses here are providing a high level of specialist clinical care. One of the most compelling arguments is where nurses are involved in special treatment units like Cancer Care centres. Weighting the Evidence in Gordon’s Argument We fail to acknowledge the hands on care that enables nurses to study the patients physical condition which both allows them to save lives and determine when conditions are right to help patients prepare for death.All too often this view is negated inn favour of a menial technician supporting the more senior medical staff.

Nurses go through an advanced form of medical training that requires subject matter expertise and expert judgement. The fact that nurses deal with menial tasks contrasts to the sophisticated clinical aspects of their work that often goes overlooked.It is this intimacy that brings the patient closer to their own mortality and even in extreme cases of terminal patients the nurses help them with dignity and care. It is clear that the nurses have a far more intimate relationship with the patients than the surgeons or doctors. Little acknowledgement is made of the “back office” and all that goes into the recuperative process. Doctors and Surgeons are seen as the “front office” and the skills that save human life.They find this difficult to tolerate and equally less willing to share the discomfort that the nurse helped them with Adults hate being reminded of their mortality and fragile grasp on life. Nurses cushion the frailties of human beings those issues of sickness that invoke fear, pain and loss of control.Gordon cites a number of reasons for this lack of recognition of nurses: The intimate care that nurses provide to those patients facing life threatening situations. The nurses ability to deal with traumatised patients handling both their anxieties and fears.

Nurses are so often associated with trivial tasks that their true skills are so often overlooked. Even though the nurses are part of the patients life support system during illness, patients quickly want to forget and rid themselves of the memory.

All too often they forget that it was the nurse who had to deal with many of the more unpleasant tasks and was the person that nursed them back to health.

They are quick to acclaim the success of the Doctors who carried out their life saving operation and ready to share this with colleagues and friends. Gordon claims that all too often patients either overlook or ignore the vital contribution made by their nurses. Relation of Global Warming and Extreme Weather ConditionĪn essay that describes the dilemma of the Nursing profession, why there is an ongoing shortage of qualified nurses, how the work is so often unrecognized and why the profession is considered to be on the endangered list. Power Point Presentation With Speaker Notes

Life Support by Suzanne Gordon