Nursing Aide

It does not matter where you work you will always encounter different types of individuals in any working condition. I work in a hospital as a nursing aide. I encounter different types of individuals every day. The personalities that I work with differ from day to day but we do have some individuals I work with on a daily basis.

Anyone who has been to a hospital is aware of the different workers there. The nurses, doctors, aides, and food service workers all come to mind. For anyone who has worked in a hospital you can classify these people even more.

There is the ever evasive specialty doctor. They have went to school for many years to focus their work on a particular field of the body. These physicians can keep a patient waited to be discharged for many days. They are not required to be at work every day and report only to patients that have a problem within the area of the body that the physician specializes in.

There is the common yet still ambiguous medical doctor who is the physician upon admission. These physicians make their rounds when they arrive at the hospital and ask the nurses to do most of the basic care. These individuals will appear when they wish and in the situation of emergencies. Before a patient can return to their homes these physicians must tell the patient of any future medications and treatments that they will have to go through to continue a healthy life. These individuals must also determine if the patient is healthy enough to go home.

The next level seen commonly throughout the hospital is that of the nurses. These individuals must perform most of the hands on treatment of the patient. If a patient requires pain medication then the nurse is the individual who actually administers it. The nurse is the person who will follow out the orders given down by the physician. These nurses can be broken down into two types.

There is the friendly nurse who will listen to the patient. This nurse will also work efficiently with the aides and other individuals below them. These nurses will become busy just like everyone else but choose to react in a positive way. They will ask for help from other individuals and will demonstrate to the newer individuals procedures that they will learn to help make the day less hectic for everyone. These nurses strive to make everyone around them more educated and have a better idea of how to efficiently care for patients.

The other type of nurse that is present at a hospital setting are those who become overwhelmed when they become busy. These nurses feel as if they do not have time to listen to the patients or aides when they present them with a problem. The “grumpy” nurse feels that they should only be notified if it is an emergency. These nurses will be rude to anyone who speaks to them when they are busy and will avoid going into rooms and listening to aides when they are busy.

The student nurse is an individual who is currently in nursing school. These individuals cannot participate in all of the actions that a nurse can but they can help the registered nurse with some tasks. These individuals can give shots, discontinue IVs, and remove catheters. Individuals at this state are usually very interested in learning and are willing to help with most procedures even if they are only watching.

The nursing aides have the most time spent actually with the patient. These individuals are responsible for basic patient care including changing linens and ensuring that patients have a bath. Aides are the faces of the hospital they are the people that the patient and their family becomes acquainted with throughout their stay. The aides are the individuals who first notice if a patient is not acting as they normally do. Aides are who the patient usually bases their stay upon because they are the member of the hospital most frequently in their room and helping to inform the nurse and doctor if there is a serious problem with the patient. Aides can be put into different groups as well.

There are the happy aides who are more than willing to help the patient in any way that they can. These aides will gladly get anything the patient or family needs, a water, coffee, or notifying the nurse that the family wishes to speak to them. These aides will negotiate with the patients to help them feel better. Some patients do not to physically exert themselves and would much rather for the aides to physically bathe them and care for them. If the patient can care for themselves their stay will not only be shorter but the time it takes to heal would be less.

There are also aides who believe anything that a patient says. These aides will allow patients not to bathe if they do not feel like it. They will allow patients to refuse meals and will leave the tasks of getting patients to participate to an aide on a different shift. These aides will do as little as possible and will leave anything that they do not have done to the aide coming in to cover their next shift. These individuals typically do not last long at my particular hospital because the administration at my hospital believes in equal work distribution.

The administration team at the hospital in which I work believes that all work should be equally distributed between all members of the hospital staff. This helps to ensure that everyone has a pleasant working experience and that patients are taken care of efficiently and thoroughly.