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 [...]
Posts Tagged quality
The whole shebang
Jul 20
Dissected to death????
Jun 8
What is it about nursing that makes funders/academics/anyone have to dissect every aspect of the nursing process/service/experience. We don’t see that volume of scrutiny focused on the doctoring process that I have ever noticed. Is it because we need to justify and prove the value of nursing because the financial benefits to an organisation from [...]
Penny wise, pound foolish?
May 27
I get really nervous when I hear of “specialists” being hired to “analyse” health services….especially when they are focusing on nursing. Maybe it is a hangover from the 1990′s when entire hospitals were brought to their metaphorical knees and plunged into a black hole of despair by such”analyst experts”. So I read the recent [...]
Quote of the day
Feb 24
Regarding common or garden GPs and the quality of such: “In fact, I’d have to say that the available supply of up and coming GPs seems to this wry observer to be improving. Friendly, not up themselves, thorough, competent, they could almost be nurses.” Bristol Michael