Amy Curtis: Here's What the Emergency Nurses Association Is Teaching Our First Responders - townhall.com
Excerpt:
"Nurses have a difficult and unforgiving job. When they work in emergency medicine, that job gets even more difficult. They sometimes have to deal with issues of life and death: car accidents, violent crimes, or other medical emergencies like heart attacks and strokes."You would think that the Emergency Nurses Association would focus on ways to provide better care that saves lives. You'd think wrong.
"Instead, the Emergency Nurses Association is teaching RNs to apologize for the sin of misgendering a patient, and how to use preferred pronouns."
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The following quote is from Another Day in the Frontal Lobe - A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside, by Brain surgeon Katrina Firlik:
"People often ask physicians how we handle the emotional stress of dealing with ill children. What are our defense mechanisms? Do we practice a cool detachment? Do we shut off our emotions completely? Or do we go home at the end of the day and sob over a reheated dinner?... The truth is that we are trained to do a job: recognize a problem, come up with a solution and execute that plan. Our ability to actually do something protects us from what you might expect would be a chronic depressive state. We feed off the satisfaction of being able to help and we know things would be worse if we didn't or couldn't, do anything. For that reason, the experience of taking care of sick kids is much different from a hopeless walk through a pediatric ward as a visitor."
