Mental Health and discrimination

monster · 08-15-2013, 07:21 PM

I have many nurse friends/acquaintances, but away from their work (which is where I see them) most of them strike me as the people least likely to become nurses. maybe they save all their empathy for the patients. The one I know best certainly says some horrible things about the families of her patients, much of them stereotyping/labeling-type comments that make me very uncomfortable. But she deals with children with cancer and I suspect it's a mechanism to stop her "caring too much". But I think I might be more concerned if she were deciding the course of treatment.

08-15-2013, 07:21 PM	#17
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I have many nurse friends/acquaintances, but away from their work (which is where I see them) most of them strike me as the people least likely to become nurses. maybe they save all their empathy for the patients. The one I know best certainly says some horrible things about the families of her patients, much of them stereotyping/labeling-type comments that make me very uncomfortable. But she deals with children with cancer and I suspect it's a mechanism to stop her "caring too much". But I think I might be more concerned if she were deciding the course of treatment. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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