jumpmasta: This one is obviously a disoriented paramedic...typical inferiority complex

991: There may be good nurses out there, but truth be said, 90% of Nigerian nurses is a disgrace to there profession. Yes i call them 'bunch of semi-educated savages' and you will agree with me if you have had an encounter with them. their services are so unprofessional! and they are not friendly with patients, especially the poor looking ones.
@ mods, i was typing and my fingers mistakenly pressed enter, hence the 'b' am surprised that the post got hidden even before i finished editing..

adeaugustus: Nurse:
I respect them a lot, they're always at the fore front with the patients. If a nurse is not too good at what she does, then the Doctor on call should be ready to have a messed up time.
On the other hand, if you meet the cruel ones, you'll not like their profession. Nurses in my school health centre don't bloody care if you're dying, because they won't attend to you until they're done with their food or some other silly things. While I see this as something very bad and unethical, I wouldn't blame them too much because most of the patients they attend too don't really appreciate their service, the government is not appreciating them too (In terms of wages).

Doctors:
I don't know why most of those guys think they are the one in charge, actually they're not, earlier on this thread i read somebody's comment about the doctor doing the brain work, (that comment breaks my heart). Doctors are not adding any value to the medical profession (at least the ones that are not into research). A very good nurse can always kick any doctor's azz any day any time, A physician assistant will function as a doctor on any given occasion.
I don't like it when they receive the glory that is supposed to be shared by all health professionals!
The above comment about doctors doesn't mean i don't respect them, I do respect them alot, because without their help, all medical research and findings wouldn't get to the reach of our people. But what I demand from them is that they should acknowledge those that are helping them to have a successful day at work.

From what i observed, this attitude is peculiar to Nigeria doctors alone, as I was opportuned to read Dr. Ben Carson's book "Think Big" He actually appreciate everybody's effort in the successful separation of the sesamese twins, from the surgical nurse even to his secretary.

Pharmacists are doing a great deal of work too......
Public Health Officers.
Medical Laboratory Scientist.
Biochemist.
Physiologist.
Anatomist.
Therapists.
E.t.c.

ziccoit:

No two professionals are equal even in the same profession. The problem starts when a nurse wants to think she/he is equal to a doctor by all possible factors you want to consider. That is why many of them would establish a "maternity home" where people are taken in and only got released to the hospitals after complications might have set in.
A doctor is held responsible for the mistakes of other health professionals that might have led to a patient death. He is expected to have trusted his medical judgement when a laboratory scientist might have brought a spurious laboratory result etc.

Nurses are the first contact in any hospital. They need to have carried out some preliminary routines on a patient, which many of them left undone, before a doctor except in emergency cases. A good nurse that understands and does her work doesn't have problem working with doctors.

Prettychyna: @beautiful onyi,You sounded so bitter,why? Can't believe that a doctor can be this myopic. Is that what you were told in school?that you alone make use of your brain while others are dunces. This is the same thing we have been saying all this while,your statement defines the kind of doctor you are. You mean to tell me that I spent 5years in the university learning just that? And am being paid well for it? Wow,that sounds so great! Did the pharmacist also spend 6years in the uni learning how to count and dispense drugs? You need to wake up girl,no need to ague with somebody who is probably suffering from delusion of grandeur

fellis:

That is how a lot of doctors think, unfortunately. Those ones always act like they are superhuman and believe that every other profession is inferior to theirs. Most doctors are not even intelligent; they just crammed their way through university but yet they act so pompous and arrogant as if medical doctor is another word for god.
Imagine what that onyi wrote, that a nurse's work requires zero iq and a child can do it. I wonder what type of treatment she deals to nurses working with her if this is the mindset she has.
That being said, I am not a nurse. I am just repulsed by the arrogance majority of doctors display.

adeaugustus:
Only in Hollywood Movies

agabasam: not 2b rude mam.... Pls kindly elaborate on some of ur brain work as a profession.......
Doctors have to make a spot decison based on what he has upstairs.....make diagnosis, prescribe d bst treatmnt possible....and monitor the progress...have you been to an emmergency call in a teaching hospital b4....doctors do all the work...nurses jst monitor them after d patients have been stabilized...and if anoda complications arise, they run again to call a doc......

oko-omoge:
I am not a dr nor a nurse, but I have loads of doctor friends male and female here in Perth Australia.

From what I have seen here in Perth, I will say nurses are the life wire of an hospital. Fine Dr diagnosis the patients but for an in patient, the recovery of such patients lies solely with the nurse not the doctors.

If you must know there are clinical nurses out there who are as good as medical doctors. Without any bias, I will say doctors are trained to be arrogant right from medical school, I will not go into that but I know that for sure.

Doctors generally have this mentality that they are super humans , as such they think any other profession is inferior to theirs. I am an engineer, a specialist at that but most of my doctor friend find it so hard to stomach the fact that I can match them dollars for dollars any day.

I am forever grateful to the midwives that delivered my son. The dude that came to give epidural to my wife was so rude, but I took him back to his days of pre-clinicals when he was still learning stuff about lower extremities and Atlas anatomy, the registrar had her mouth open when I took on the so called specialist. Very rude bunch of mofos.

I am so glad I dished medicine for Engineering. I have never regretted that for more than 10 years of hands on experience.

oko-omoge:
I am not a dr nor a nurse, but I have loads of doctor friends male and female here in Perth Australia.

From what I have seen here in Perth, I will say nurses are the life wire of an hospital. Fine Dr diagnosis the patients but for an in patient, the recovery of such patients lies solely with the nurse not the doctors.

If you must know there are clinical nurses out there who are as good as medical doctors. Without any bias, I will say doctors are trained to be arrogant right from medical school, I will not go into that but I know that for sure.

Doctors generally have this mentality that they are super humans , as such they think any other profession is inferior to theirs. I am an engineer, a specialist at that but most of my doctor friend find it so hard to stomach the fact that I can match them dollars for dollars any day.

I am forever grateful to the midwives that delivered my son. The dude that came to give epidural to my wife was so rude, but I took him back to his days of pre-clinicals when he was still learning stuff about lower extremities and Atlas anatomy, the registrar had her mouth open when I took on the so called specialist. Very rude bunch of mofos.

I am so glad I dished medicine for Engineering. I have never regretted that for more than 10 years of hands on experience.

AVWENAGHA:

go ahead,am listening what happen?

adeaugustus: Nurse:
I respect them a lot, they're always at the fore front with the patients. If a nurse is not too good at what she does, then the Doctor on call should be ready to have a messed up time.
On the other hand, if you meet the cruel ones, you'll not like their profession. Nurses in my school health centre don't bloody care if you're dying, because they won't attend to you until they're done with their food or some other silly things. While I see this as something very bad and unethical, I wouldn't blame them too much because most of the patients they attend too don't really appreciate their service, the government is not appreciating them too (In terms of wages).

Doctors:
I don't know why most of those guys think they are the one in charge, actually they're not, earlier on this thread i read somebody's comment about the doctor doing the brain work, (that comment breaks my heart). Doctors are not adding any value to the medical profession (at least the ones that are not into research). A very good nurse can always kick any doctor's azz any day any time, A physician assistant will function as a doctor on any given occasion.
I don't like it when they receive the glory that is supposed to be shared by all health professionals!
The above comment about doctors doesn't mean i don't respect them, I do respect them alot, because without their help, all medical research and findings wouldn't get to the reach of our people. But what I demand from them is that they should acknowledge those that are helping them to have a successful day at work.

From what i observed, this attitude is peculiar to Nigeria doctors alone, as I was opportuned to read Dr. Ben Carson's book "Think Big" He actually appreciate everybody's effort in the successful separation of the sesamese twins, from the surgical nurse even to his secretary.

Pharmacists are doing a great deal of work too......
Public Health Officers.
Medical Laboratory Scientist.
Biochemist.
Physiologist.
Anatomist.
Therapists.
E.t.c.

Prettychyna: What the doctors have failed to understand is that nursing and medicine are totally different profession with different bodies governing them, so I don't see the reason why a profession will want to head another profession?my dear,in medical profession for example you have your hierarchy-from house officer to junior reg to senior reg to consultant. I don't see anywhere where the nurse is mentioned.same with nurses,from NO 11 to NO 1 to PNO to CNO down to nursing manager,I don't see anywhere where a doctor is mentioned. So you see what I mean by two parallel lines that can never meet. So stop comparing our work because we do differnt things entirely. The earlier they stop feeding you lies in medical school,the better for the entire healthcare system.I wonder if a lawyer will ever leave his profession to start heading accountants.you have not removed the speck in your eyes and you are trying to remove log of wood from another person's. Bunch of incompetents!

fellis:

That is how a lot of doctors think, unfortunately. Those ones always act like they are superhuman and believe that every other profession is inferior to theirs. Most doctors are not even intelligent; they just crammed their way through university but yet they act so pompous and arrogant as if medical doctor is another word for god.
Imagine what that onyi wrote, that a nurse's work requires zero iq and a child can do it. I wonder what type of treatment she deals to nurses working with her if this is the mindset she has.
That being said, I am not a nurse. I am just repulsed by the arrogance majority of doctors display.

beautiful Onyi: While I appreciate nurses, I believe one can state their point without bringing down another profession. I'm a doctor and I can proudly say that:
1) Nurses do not work as hard as doctors. They work an average of 6-8hrs daily, because they run 3-4 shifts per day. Doctors on the other hand work an average of 10-24hrs daily. Doctors run 24hrs -72hrs calls. 150,000 likes

2) Issue of strike: when doctors go on strike, they are more merciful. They may not admit new patients, but they still take care of the patients they admitted before the strike. Nurses are ruthless when it comes to strike. They don't show up at all. They leave doctors to do their work, which we do without much effort because truth be told, the work of a nurse requires little or no brain work, zero IQ. A primary school child can do a nurses work. No pun intended

3) Education: it takes 3yrs to be a nurse. It requires no university degree (bsc nursing is a recent development). It is not a profession for intelligent people. Really what do nurses do? Document, clean poo, make beds, hang IV fliuds, take instructions from doctors, shout on patients, nag nag nag, quarrel about 'days off'

Ps: the above concerns Nigerian nurses who should change their stupid attitudes and learn to accept and live with the fact that the doctor is the HEAD of the health team and always knows better.

Now, nurses abroad....a different ball game, pls nigerian nurses should learn from them.

Stegomiah: Your write up is 2long, try 2 summarize nxt tym