tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post4900618927774314313..comments2024-03-28T18:32:00.146+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: "Never ask a question to which you don’t already know the answer…"JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-71544582092833098402009-11-30T09:42:11.265+00:002009-11-30T09:42:11.265+00:00In a former life, I trained and qualified as a ope...In a former life, I trained and qualified as a operating theatre nurse in a military hospital. I assisted anaethetists in setting up drips and administering drugs and post-op care but I would never have even taken it upon myself nor would I have wanted the responsibility of precribing drugs for patients.<br /><br />Leave that sort of thing to them that knows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-17960939268764797112009-11-30T09:09:20.918+00:002009-11-30T09:09:20.918+00:00I remember an episode of 'House' in which ...I remember an episode of 'House' in which he asked a lippy paramedic:<br />"You wanna be the doctor? Shoulda worked harder at High School"dr cromartynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-90292141994395271762009-11-28T12:21:41.086+00:002009-11-28T12:21:41.086+00:00Nurses are an important and highly-regarded part o...Nurses are an important and highly-regarded part of a medical team; this does not give them the training or ability to take on work that is rightly done by qualified practitioners, or DOCTORS, as we used to call them.<br /><br />Division of labour, because that is what this is essentially about, should not - must not - be used an an excuse for passing medical care into 'semi-skilled' hands.<br /><br />Nurses, do what you were trained to do; doctors, do what <b>you</b> were trained to do. <br /><br />The 'one size fits all approach' has been proved wrong so many times; how long must we keep on proving it is wrong.The Lost Packetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-39836181316193931732009-11-28T11:07:08.779+00:002009-11-28T11:07:08.779+00:00Sadly, cost is aa factor in health care as much as...Sadly, cost is aa factor in health care as much as in anything else. Clearly a doctor is more knowledgable than a nurse, and also more expensive. In exactly the same way that a licensed conveyancer is adequate to handle a property transaction (once a monopoly of solicitors), but not to conduct a court case, I see no reaason why a qualified and experienced nurse shouldn't be competent to carry out some (definitely not all) of the functions traditionally reserved to doctors. Reducing the cost of health care would make it better not worse.<br />As ever, the devil is in the detail- deciding just which functions are within the competence of nurses competence of nurses and which are not is not easy- neither is it simple to ensure that nurses pass on all cases for which they lack competence.Patnoreply@blogger.com