> So, when it comes to prescribing (...) Giving psychiatric medicine “as needed”? Go wild.
This implies a lack of duty of care which is painfully unfair.
As a counter story to this I have a friend of mine who is a _former_ ICU nurse with a gigantic scar on her forearm.
I much later in our relation found out that the scar is from a patient who basically ripped her forearm biting down on it while she was trying to stop him from tearing out a central line in his own neck.
It's ironic that in trying to stop a patient from having a massive central line bleeding she ended up bleeding herself.
Outside hospitals we fail to realize how disoriented and irrational patients can get when coming out of anesthesia or with certain diseases.
So yeah 'as needed' is absolutely right because everyone is entitled to work in a safe environment.
his "go wild" sounds like it's blaming the nurses, which it is partly, but I think moreso he's trying to point that this situation is just pretty awful. Or at least he should be trying to focus on the bigger picture. I certainly don't blame the nurses for showing up to work and trying. But I think we can all see how the 'path of least resistance' and financial incentives also leads us to this 'medical factory' type of treatment of people. And that's not the nurses' problem, that's just all our problem.
This implies a lack of duty of care which is painfully unfair.
As a counter story to this I have a friend of mine who is a _former_ ICU nurse with a gigantic scar on her forearm.
I much later in our relation found out that the scar is from a patient who basically ripped her forearm biting down on it while she was trying to stop him from tearing out a central line in his own neck.
It's ironic that in trying to stop a patient from having a massive central line bleeding she ended up bleeding herself.
Outside hospitals we fail to realize how disoriented and irrational patients can get when coming out of anesthesia or with certain diseases.
So yeah 'as needed' is absolutely right because everyone is entitled to work in a safe environment.