Nurses are often the first and last person a patient sees; therefore nurses must be prepared to answer the patient’s questions. They must know the learned material to properly inform the patient. Nurses must also know how to explain the material to a patient who may not understand medical terminology to the same degree. It is important to explain things clearly, descriptively, precisely, and accurately for the patient to fully understand. In the article, consistency is one of the qualities of critical thinking. It says, “… enable the student to predict client responses to the administration of the drug…” When Nurse Evers gives Hardman penicillin, he does not react well and ends up dying. Earlier on, Nurse Evers should have administered penicillin to her patients and inform them about having syphilis. She should have decided there was sufficient evidence to give penicillin. Her priorities should be her patients’ lives and helping them every possible way. As a health care provider, she should have given the proper treatment and informed the men, but instead, she lied to these men for years. To keep the men coming back for “treatment,” she suggested giving $50 as insurance to buy a coffin when they die.
Nurses are often the first and last person a patient sees; therefore nurses must be prepared to answer the patient’s questions. They must know the learned material to properly inform the patient. Nurses must also know how to explain the material to a patient who may not understand medical terminology to the same degree. It is important to explain things clearly, descriptively, precisely, and accurately for the patient to fully understand. In the article, consistency is one of the qualities of critical thinking. It says, “… enable the student to predict client responses to the administration of the drug…” When Nurse Evers gives Hardman penicillin, he does not react well and ends up dying. Earlier on, Nurse Evers should have administered penicillin to her patients and inform them about having syphilis. She should have decided there was sufficient evidence to give penicillin. Her priorities should be her patients’ lives and helping them every possible way. As a health care provider, she should have given the proper treatment and informed the men, but instead, she lied to these men for years. To keep the men coming back for “treatment,” she suggested giving $50 as insurance to buy a coffin when they die.