LETTER TO MY FELLOW NURSES.

WE NEW BREED NURSES MUST CHANGE OUR ORIENTATION TOWARDS CERTAIN ISSUES. WHENEVER WE ARE WRITING OUR NURSING REPORTS, PLS LET’S STOP WRITING THINGS LIKE POST OP ORDER, TRANSFUSION ORDER, DOCTOR’S ORDER etc. INSTEAD, LET’S WRITE TRANSFUSION NOTE, POST OP NOTE, DOCTOR’S PRESCRIPTION. IN D DICTIONARY, AN ORDER IS DEFINED THUS:- A COMMAND GIVEN BY A SUPERIOR THAT MUST BE OBEYED. ARE DOCTORS OUR SUPERIOR OFFICERS? SO IF A DOCTOR ERRONEOUSLY MADE A WRONG PRESCRIPTION, SO THE NURSE MUST FOLLOW IT PER LETTER BCOS IT IS A DOCTORS ORDER? PLS, EVEN WHEN A SURGEON OUT OF HIS/HER IGNORANCE WRITES POST OP ORDER, PLS LET’S CHANGE IT TO POST OP NOTE IN OUR OWN NURSING REPORT BOOK. MY GREATEST WISH FOR NURSING AND MEDICAL PROFESSION IS FOR BOTH TO BE INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER BUT I CAME TO REALISE THAT BOTH ARE LIKE SIAMESE (CONJOINED) TWINS THAT SHARE SOME VITAL INTERNAL ORGANS TOGETHER, WHICH ANY ATTEMPT TO SEPARATE THEM MIGHT ENDANGER ONE OR BOTH LIVES. IN CONJOINED TWINS ONE TWIN IS NOT SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER, THEY LEARN TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND LIVE HAPPILY TOGETHER.