I have just attended an excellent conference including a presentation on performing pelvic exams on challenging patients. Which begs the question- why do “non-medical smear-takers” aka nurses NOT get taught to do bi-manual pelvic exams with their smeartaking? It is like teaching phlebotomy without teaching how to actually draw the blood. Can anyone tell me [...]
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The whole shebang
Jul 20
Saddened I was when I read the following excerpt in a student nurse’s blog this morning: “….the lecturer mentioned the nursing diagnosis and that it differed from medical diagnosis, in that it could only cover what we as nurses could treat. The example she gave was that instead of giving a diagnosis of diabetes, we [...]