Most compassionate health provider: Doctors or Nurses?
By aceabrea
@aceabrea (184)
October 4, 2011 2:59am CST
They play a very important role in the society specifically with our health needs. They are both excellent health disciplines. But who do you think is more compassionate in providing health care to the people? Is it the doctors or more on the nurses? Come think, and share your views. =)
3 responses
@evanfred0219 (209)
• Philippines
4 Oct 11
Doctors focus on curing patients. they just surface on the scene when they provide new prescriptions or assess patient's laboratory findings. nurses on the other hand, are the ones who come face to face and directly comes in contact with patients. they are the ones who focus on caring then followed by curing. Most of the times, they are the ones who patients run into about their concerns beacuse they're more accessible. Nurses are more compassionate, but not all nurses.;-)
@aceabrea (184)
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4 Oct 11
Hello evenfredo219, you've got good points there. I can also see that, when someone seek help related to health the most accessible are the nurses. They get our vital signs and they talk with us regarding our health concerns. They give us health teaching and simplified the doctors diagnosis for us to understand it easily. I love talking to nurses specially when they truly cares.
I hope doctors could spend more time with their patients like nurses do.
@evanfred0219 (209)
• Philippines
4 Oct 11
yes, but as of my experience, both doctors and nurse do physical and mental works. because a professional can't perform a task if he / she is not knowledgable about it. and it is very important for nurses to know about what the doctor orders so that it can be assessed by herself or himself if its for the better of the patient. because some doctors interchange some of their orders because of so many patients.
@evanfred0219 (209)
• Philippines
4 Oct 11
yeah nurses just follow doctor's orders but nurses should check the doctor's orders first if it's for the right patient not just follow it directly. because there was this one incident that 2 patients were simultaneously admitted through ER, so there were 2 charts for the Doctor to order. what happened was the one patient was an adult and on her chart the doctor ordered medications that the doses are for pedia. so still, it's very important for the nurses to verify the doctor's orders not just follow them directly. verifying something is not bad especially in the medical field since their dealing with lives.
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
4 Oct 11
Depending on the real reason for choosing nursing as a career, nurses in general are more compassionate than doctors.
One of the reasons is that nurses spend more time with the patients. There is a greater personal interaction between them. Thus the nurses understand patients' feelings and emotion.
Most nurses rend to be humble, and do not look down at the patients under their care. They listen and respect them.
@aceabrea (184)
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10 Oct 11
I love the thought that nurses do care for their patients. And i hope to see real nurses that do really care and not just after to something like a good pay (for those working in first world counties). It amazes me seeing nurses who volunteer for a medical mission and even spending hi or her own resources just to extend help to those in need. That the reason why i love the medical profession compared to business and other disciplines.
@larribel (21)
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20 Jan 12
hello.
just want to share my idea.
for me. it is not a nurse or a doctor. i guess it is more on the type of the person the nurse/doctor is. yes, nurses are more hands on when caring patients while doctors are more on ordering or looking for ways to treat illness based on what they learned.some nurses are compassionate and some are not. same to the doctors as well.
nurses and doctors can be both compassionate to their patients, only if its already their personality/attitude.
