Birth Date Identifiers

I agree, the nurse was very good displaying proper techniques. At work, we use the name and birth date identifiers as well. I usually say, "for your safety, would you please verify your name and date of birth". Not many people ask why I am doing that, stating the safety reasons, along with the question usually tells them why. In my opinion: I agree that safety and respect need to be part of every interaction with others, not just with patients, but there is a growing madness that is put on nurses these days of patient satisfaction. We (as nurses and doctors) must always say the right thing or the satisfaction score will reflect bad care. For quite some time, I have felt that there is more emphasis on what we should be saying versus the care …show more content…
In this age, not many of us practicing nurses have that much time to spend with each patient, no matter what environment one is working in. People who do not do the work today like we do, sit in an office and make up rules to this game. I am certain that at one point these people worked in our field, but have been sitting behind a desk for a while and have not had the pleasure of increased patient censuses, increased patient acuity, and all the other aspects that nurses are facing today. So, I do believe that the video shows proper techniques; I also believe that it is not realistic in the hurried atmosphere we are expected to work in today. I have told my family, after a busy night in ER, that I feel like a farmer that is herding the specimens in one by one at a fast rate. Hurry up and work harder, but don't let the patient see that you are in a hurry. People are not as dumb as administration thinks they are, they know when things are hurried and they should understand why; although most of them do not. Life, in my short 44 years, sure has changed and I am not sure it is for the