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equal opportunity employment journal
September 2020
3 Common Myths and 3 Realities about being a Nurse N
ursing has gained increased attention throughout the years as a viable and successful career path. A nursing position is relatively easy to gain as an entry-level professional, and the demand for nurses has not decreased throughout the years, but instead has continued to increase. With our aging population and our society's increased dependence on organizational healthcare, nurses remain in high demand. Before you decide to be a nurse, however, you will want to read this list and see if some common nursing myths versus realities make the career as attractive to you.
Myth 1: You carry out the doctor's orders after (s)he makes all the decisions about the patient's care.
Fact:
A nursing position is relatively easy to gain as an entry-level professional, and the demand for nurses has not decreased throughout the years, but instead has continued to increase.
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No. Instead, the fact is that bedside nurses are heavily relied upon to make decisions about the patients in their care. Often, bedside nurses see an issue, intervene with a previously successful treatment, many times without the doctor's order. This is especially common during night shift nursing when a doctor simply may not be available, or when a patient's stability is quickly declining, and there is no time to involve a doctor before making decisions about a patient's care. Doctor's are often managing many hospitalized patients, as well as their office patients, and they may miss details such as lab-work that is contraindicated with an ordered medication, drug-drug interactions that are actively causing symptoms in the patient, or early physical indications that the patient is
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