Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are licensed to provide nursing care only. We do not have any legal or moral obligation  to any physician. We provide health teaching assess physical as well as emotional problems coordinate patient-related services, and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. If, in any circumstance , we feel that a physician's order is 
 inappropriate or unsafe, we have a legal responsibility to question that order or refuse to carry it out. 
Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession. The emotional and physical stress, however, that occurs due to odd working hours is a prime reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction. 
It is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we change shifts four or five times a month . That disturbs our personal lives, disrupts our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except job-related friends and activities. The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations. 
Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced nurses finally give up trying to change the system  . Consumers of medically related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand changes in our medical system. But if trends continue as predicted, they will find that most critical hospital care will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately trained nurses
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护理，是一个以女性为代表的职业，护理每天主要做的事情就是站在主治医师旁边等待护理。作为一个护士，我们仅被允许提供护理服务，我们没有合法的权利去医治病人。我提供健康评估以及和调整病人相关的情绪问题。我们护理的职责就是决定对于病人进行最适合的是什么。有时，我们感觉医生的处方是不适合或者不安全的，我们有合法的责任去提问和拒绝实施这个处方。 所有的护士在她们进入这个领域时，她们都明白这一点，护理不是拥有一个朝九晚五的工作规律的工作，来自情绪和身体的压力，然而不规律工作时间是大多数职业的主要令人不满意的地方。有时间要求我们延长加班时间，我们在一个月内换班4-5次。它扰乱了我们正常的生活，扰乱了我们睡眠和吃饭的习惯，它隔离了一切，除了和我工作相关的朋友和活动。护理的质量也被这些各种情况戏剧化的影响。大多数医院雇佣一些刚毕业的学生去做，一些经验丰富的护士放弃改变这种体系。跟护理服务相关的病人们没有被影响，所以也不会提出改变体系。但是如果按照我们预想的趋势发展，那么我们将会发现我们可能接受危险的、缺乏经验的护理，有时候还有不适当训练的护理。