Counter Argument Analysis

Being declared as a pre-nursing major, this counter argument is not something that should be even placed into the picture. A nurse is someone with a soft loving touch. They are the person who doesn’t care about getting all the credit of caring a patient or resident back to full health. Becoming a nurse is a dream for many people who are compassionate about healing, who could care less about the reward. A nurse’s reward is seeing a patient be able to walk again, or even being able to see Mrs. Jones use the bathroom continently without soiling her own clothes. Many people don’t realize that nursing isn’t for everybody, it is for a special breed, the type of breed that is not scared to wipe somebody’s genital area, give a urinary catheter, or even …show more content…
The counter argument may fall into the picture for some people but if what I described is not being a nurse, then most of us must be in the wrong career field because that is what nursing is in many of our eyes.
As a certified nurse assistant, witnessing situations of nursing home neglect and abuse is completely inhumane. By law we are a liable to report a case when they occur but encounter a problem doing this because the facility will most likely take the licensed nurses word over the certified nurse aids word. The other problem will occur when a resident is accusing worker of the act of neglect or abuse. A resident with Alzheimer’s disease of dementia is not in the complete right state of mind for somebody’s job to be at stake. Nursing home neglect and abuse is a problem that needs to be resolved soon because if it doesn’t we may one day lose a family member of our own one day. Also, for the people that live in a nursing home, their quality of life may become more and more diminished if the problem continues. Nursing homes were created as a safe haven, they were not created to be a place of fear and doubt. Seeing nursing home neglect and abuse from the perspective of a nurse aid is heartbreaking. It