Cortney Davis Nurses Poetry.

The writer in this article is expanding on the increasing scholarly articles in the field of medicine.

She is however dismayed at how the writing of registered nurses has been undermined. This is

because readers show a preference for doctors' opinions when it comes to medical literature. She

states that the doctors' perspectives do not tell the whole picture when it comes to health care.

She further states that what is presented to the public about the profession of nursing actually

shapes public opinion. Also states that what has been said and written about the nursing

profession often contradicts what nurses understand about themselves. Furthermore, and his

opinion on patient care is not as important as a doctor's. She continues to say that the very reason

physicians write about their work, illness, and health is similar to theirs. However, she contrasts

this by stating that nurses usually focus on physical details of their bodies while doctors focus

more on illness, death the burden of decision making, and their intellectual struggles. She states

that even in the face of death, they do not usually attempt to fight against death but focus more

on palliative care avoiding the fact that death might be imminent. Furthermore, they try to

identify with the patient as well as their caretakers in order to fully understand what they are

going through fostering the emotional and physical connection. Therefore, the writer states that

nursing poetry should fulfill the role of a counter story to the mainstream medical opinions. Their

voices should be as important as doctors' voices for students and other professionals. This is

because they convey different opinions but are equally important in the understanding of

caregiving.
Cortney Davis, when their Rhythms Become Mine.

In this article Courtney, who is a nurse practitioner, expresses how she has become proficient at

her job. Courtney compares attending to her young uninsured women and teenagers to deal with

horses while growing up. She states that horseback riding was her passion when she was young

and could remember the challenge she faced and she dealt with a frightened horse. Courtney says

that the young women that she sees in the clinic on a daily basis are frequently frightened

requesting so many different tests and imagining that something wrong has happened. Just like

she has land to deal with horses, she says that she has come to know how to manage her patience

experiencing roughly the same thing. Operations came to the clinic for the first time all by

themselves having been raped, abused drugs, or became sexually active long before they were

able to drive. This contrasts with the way her parents took care of her when growing up. She

continues to say that she has never been afraid of dealing with these kinds of girls just like she

was never afraid when she rode horses. Some cases make her question whether she should give

up due to some more desperate circumstances like when she discovered a patient had three

sexually transmitted diseases as a result of rape and torture in an abusive home she has however

learned to manage just about every case.

In this article, Sally Gadow is mesmerized by how technology has brought about changes in the

concept of nursing. This has brought about a shifting view over caring professional relationships

to one fundamentally based on a cure. Therefore cure has become more important than the

traditional concept of making patients as comfortable and cherished as possible. She further

continues to expand on what she understands by a caring relationship and whether it is

considered a moral attribute or a constellation of behaviors that elicit care. According to her,

caring as a moral attribute involves the promotion of human dignity. She states that dignity

comes from within and is associated with personal integrity rather than an external factor. It

should also be understood to mean far more than just ego integrity. Caring further involves

personifying people as opposed to reducing them to the moral status of objects. Sally is

wondering whether the concept of curing conflicts with the moral aspect of caring. This is

complicated by resuscitative, intensive care measures and ' death by dignity' getting it as a

violation of moral ideals caused by technology as they reduce people to mere objects.

Furthermore. The complication of the intensive care unit contravenes the aspect of human

dignity because of the less human involvement creating an aspect of otherness. This reduces

patients feeling as though they are Maya objects and not at the center of their experience. She

states that the dilemma is a moral commitment to dignity while at the same time objectifying

people. The study further states that giving a patient more understanding of management

protocols to be instituted is ambiguous and further objectifies patients regardless of the manner

or reason it was provided. Furthermore, undermining the nurses' opinion does not help the

patient in forming an understanding of what they are dealing with. She further states that

physical care reduces the objectivity of patients and this is well understood by the health
workers. This has greatly been reduced by technology. A good example is the use of a

stethoscope in auscultation as opposed to the traditional ear to chest method. She states that a

caring relationship, through touch, reduces the concept of the subjectivity of patients. Lastly, she

contrasts the differences between empathic and instrumental touch which contributes to the

father subjectivity of patients.

Davis, Cortney. "A Patient Tells Me about Her Suffering." AJN American Journal of Nursing,

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Article Davis compares and contrasts the differences in opinions expressed by nurses and doctors

through poetry. He states that they should all narrow this gap in differences and promote the

poetry written by nurses in the understanding of caregiving. He further states that their poetry

should not be disregarded as they are able to empathize with patient’s by creating closer

connections with them. He further advocates for additional training of all students and graduate

nurses on creative writing and physicians should study nurses' through his poetry and vice versa.

Through his poetry, he states that he shares in the agony of patients that he attends to. Even

though currently there is a greater connection between Earth and medicine, there is a difference

between the narration of Physicians and nurses regarding healthcare. Nurses relate more

personally and directly to their patients making them better able to understand the agony of their

patients. This is in contrast to The Approach taken by Physicians Who focus on a patient's

disease and clinical therapy with illness as an adversary. He further states that while a doctor
tries to prevent a patient from the complications of the disease, it is nurses that stand together

with the patient in empathy and understanding. This is coupled with the fact that nursing school

emphasizes description while Physicians focus on diagnosis which contributes to the authority

that Physicians get and nurses being more vulnerable. In conclusion, David states that they

should all respect the differences and try to close the gap through a more collaborative

understanding of caregiving. He states that health care workers should see patients suffering as if

it's their own.