How my negatives notions about nurses were validated.

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It doesn't have much to do with infection-control procedures actually. From what I know, it has to do with being bed-bound and not moving around much, so that mucous settles in your lungs. Anyone who's bedbound, at home or in the hospital, is at risk for pneumonia for that reason. Because I was mainly bedbound after my surgery as a kid, I had to do breathing exercises 10 times every hour in order to avoid pneumonia. I also doubt the stitches would come out just from coughing- I had a six inch line of stitches across my abdomen, and throwing up constantly, while it pulled at the stitches and was uncomfortable, didn't pop any of my stitches. And throwing up is more strenuous than coughing.

Well, REGARDLESS! THEY thought I wasn't into it, etc... I may not have started as fast as they wanted, but I hit their goals months ahead of when they thought I would. Today, it is like it never happened. BTW I NEVER caught a cold there.

1. coughing properly after open heart surgery is done so that you don't get pneumonia. it's evidence based practice, and it should be done every two hours. yes, it hurts......you just had open heart surgery, of course it is going to hurt
2. if you had open heart surgery, it means you have heart disease. if you have heart disease, then you should be eating a cardiac diet. why should you get to have expensive surgery and then keep eating whatever the hell you feel like? you have to put some effort into your own health!

People in retail talk about their customers all the time. Watiresses talk about their customers all the time. I'm sure businessmen make fun of their customers all the time, I'm sure lawyers do, the police do, teachers talk about their students....so why can't nurses? I'm not saying there aren't bad nurses out there...of course there are! But to just hate all of nursing is silly. You have never done nursing! It is very difficult. And as for us only doing what doctor's say and cleaning up, it's absolutely not true! It takes experience, training, and lots of good judgement to be a good nurse, and it's very challenging! Maybe you should try being even a nursing assistant for one single day and then see how you feel about nurses.

I would agree that many nurses do not have appropriate psych training and are judgemental because they do not really understand psychological disorders. There are many good psych nurses out there, but sometimes medical nurses are bad in this area. I have noticed this just from going to nursing school. This should not really be surprising to anyone however when you consider the mental health parody in this coutnry.

Well, I'm glad you didn't get sick. Some infections do spread easily in hospitals- most notably MRSA and VRE. I spent 2 months recently as a speech therapy intern in a hospital, and MRSA especially is a big problem.