The nursing program where I teach had a guest speaker come in this week and speak to a group of nursing students. Nursing students from surrounding areas within our system came, so there were probably 200 there. The fellow's name was Erie Chapman. He has written four books and been the CEO of several hospitals. He began his career as an attorney, then Federal prosecutor, then sort of backed into health care by accident. He became the CEO of several hospitals, including Baptist in Nashville from 1998-2002, before the evil Ascension Health bought them out. He is now a keynote speaker and CEO of "Baptist Healing Trust"
http://www.baptisthealingtrust.org/about/index.php.
He is considered the leader of the loving care movement and authored the book "Radical Loving Care-Building the new healing hospital in America". Interesting stuff.
I won't go on and on about how great this guys ideas for health care are, but I will say, if we all practiced this way, health care today would be a different story. I think it was good for the students to hear and I hope that some of it sank in.
I truly wish that hospitals would allow nurses to really care for their patients. With less staff (to save money) and sicker patients, it just isn't happening. Long gone are the days of the "bedside nurse". Nurses now are unit secretaries, technicians and transporters, and primary care givers.
I had one of my students come to the nurse's station last week because I told her that her patient had called out and needed her. She ran up to the desk, her eyes all lit up, so excited, with visions of catheters, IVs, and other invasive procedures running through her head. She asked me what he needed and I said, coffee with a cream and two sugars. Her face fell and she said, Really? are you kidding?
Welcome to nursing.
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