Nursing ‘The profession of care and emotions ‘ has been misunderstood. Once you are in this profession, different questions may strike your mind like why can’t we prescribe medicine, why pronoun she is used referring to a nurse, why Norcet provides 80:20 ratio? Nurses now called nursing officers are in every community – large and small – providing expert care from birth to the end of life. They bring smile on sad faces , provide essential services to the people Nursing ‘The profession of care and emotions ‘ has been misunderstood. Once you are in this profession, different questions may strike your mind like why can’t we prescribe medicine, why pronoun she is used referring to a nurse, why Norcet provides 80:20 ratio? Nurses now called nursing officers are in every community – large and small – providing expert care from birth to the end of life.they bring smile on sad faces , provide essential services to the people even at low wages. Once thoroughly reading psychiatry, I found the pronoun “She” used with psychiatric nurse and ‘He’ used with others even with social workers, this left me disappointed.I slept on it and Alhamdulillah after few days what changed my mind ay change yours too. Being frank and honest, if you are in this profession for money which is a basic need ( no doubt) trust me and i repeat trust me you have choosen the wrong profession. Stop claiming and yelling in Facebook comments “Nursing chi Bakwas” “If you can’t respect your profession, you can’t expect other people to respect you and your profession. If nursing is just a waste and you are here by chance not by choice, then quite it today. Why do you wait? For what! . The day you stop comparing our profession with other professions will be the day we get more satisfied and happier. We are in competition with no one; we are simply trying to be better than we were yesterday. We are proud Nurses. Take nursing as profession, as responsibility, as essential services. Work for bringing smile on sad faces. InshaAllah we will rise and in fact we are rising and ruling. Nurses work hard, leave their families, don’t attend important functions, go through ups and downs. They work days and nights even at low wages, even sometimes are not able to attend the funeral of their closest ones.
“The day you stop comparing our profession with other professions will be the day we get more satisfied and happier. We are in competition with no one; we are simply trying to be better than we were yesterday. We are proud Nurses. Take nursing as profession, as responsibility, as essential services.”
Not only on clinical/bed side but teachers on the other hand go through the same experiences. Now the profession is upgrading. Nurses are now called Nursing officers. For a long time, the nurses’ associations in the state have been demanding to change the name of the posts on which they have been working. Since, they do not like to be called Nurse Grade-I or Nurse Grade-II, they want more respectful names such as nursing officers and senior nursing officers. For this purpose, they had approached the health minister, state Congress chief and others to get their demand fulfilled. In a notification issued on May 4, the department of personnel has directed that from now onwards, nurses at government hospitals will be designated as nursing officers. Honouring the services of nurses on the occasion of International Nurses Day, which is observed on May 12, the Karnataka government has renamed nurses as “nursing officers”. A government order to this effect was issued on Tuesday. Since different changes took place in the profession but something is still missing, something is lagging behind. I will highlight only some of the important issues which needs rectification
1. The Ratio in NORCET exam i, e (80:20), clearly shows female nurses (girls) are preferred more and given more opportunity than male nurses.. Nurses deal with humans not machines. Candidates should be selected based on their knowledge and capability not on gender differences. This is injustice and should be resolved.
2. A humble request to the nurses, kindly don’t work on volunteer basis, this degrades the profession. On one side you are highlighting the issue of pay scale. You get disappointed after you see any NOTICE regarding private job requirement with salary 10k per month, but on the other side you are ready to work on volunteer basis. Have some value and patience and stop going on volunteer basis.
3. Estabishment of private hospitals shouldn’t be encouraged. If they need more nurses, they should create more job opportunities. Instead of creating more job opportunities, they establish more private colleges to produce more students. More new nurses are produced means more job opportunities are created. But no they again do the same, establish colleges and no new job recruitments like an autoimmune disease. We are evolving, And we will continue to rise. Hope everything will be fine InshaAllah
(The author is Pursuing BSc Nursing At Desh bhagat university Mandigobindgar Punjab . The views, opinions and conclusions expressed in this article are those of the author and aren’t necessarily in accord with the views of “Kashmir Horizon”)
Adnan Shafi
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