Talk:Nurse/Archive 1

message: I have started some of the changes discussed below including moving information & images between the Nurse & Nursing articles as well as to RN & LPN articles as no one seems to care enough to comment against this.  There have been a couple of complaints about dividing the article topics by country but there are major differences in education & legal regulation, etc., in various countries. I hope people from other countries, including UK, Canada, Australia, Phillipines, New Zealand, etc. will start contributing more information related to Nurses & Nursing.
THB
Greetings! Im from the Philippines, and this is the first time i came to this discussion area though I have been to Wikipedia a number of times. As for Nurse(s) in my country, I will try to make a contribution soon as time permits. I am currently a Nurse Instructor for Angeles University Foundation and I would just like to say that I am pleased to find people like all of you here going out of your way to make an important contribution. Mabuhay! --WFNicdao 11:44, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Major Changes

message: Should the sections on RN & LPN be reduced to a few lines each and the rest of the information moved to the separate articles on RN & LPN?THB 00:42, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like a good idea. --Vincej 10:40, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Section on RN & LPN

message: Removed the following image. Too many pictures in the page.  --DuKot 20:10, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: hmm... there were three. I don't think that's too many. Besides, it's good to have a picture of a nurse that was taken within the past 30 years. Matt 03:28, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not believe this picture is suited for the article. I think the picture of a nurse in action ( ie nursing a patient) is more appropriate than just a picture a girl smiling. --DuKot 02:54, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New nurse pic 

message: I want to apologise about my typos - especially when tagging updates.  Most embarrassing.  
On another issue, I note that a person who has also been editing this article has been advocating that the form and usage matches that developed for use in describing medicine and medical schools.  I feel a little torn about this, on the one hand I can see the value in consistency between Wikipedia articles; and on the other hand it is a prime example of the paternalistic attitude that just because something is done a particular way in or for medicine that nursing has to follow suit, accommodate and conform.  The inference is that nursing is somehow lesser in value and cannot be self determinant.
The person concerned may feel surprised by my comment especially when they will (I am sure) have been acting with the noblest of intentions.  However, nursing is a distinct albeit complementary profession to medicine and as such has its own perspectives.  I think that includes this article evolving with contributions by nurses themselves from around the globe rather than having to conform to a certain pattern mandated for use by another professional group. adamm 01:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits 

message: What a terrible phrase.  I am changing it to "Other Healthcare Workers"
:Agreed. JFW | T@lk 11:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-Nurses

message: ...can identify themselves voluntarily by putting Category:Nurse Wikipedians on their user pages. Not that we have to do that kind of thing just because the doctors do... :) ←Hob 21:48, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  editors who are nurses... 

message: Is there a need to state after every type of worker... "are not nurses"
Deleted!!
Also it is the most american-centric piece of writing I have come across!
Panthro 16:29, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: May I suggest that the heading is demoted so that the paragraph comes under the USA section, as it does refer to the USA system. --Vince 13:16, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Fair enough. However, I am wondering why Certified Nursing Assistants get their own article whereas health care assistants, which looks to be virtually the same job, does not. Perhaps HCAs need their own article or else the Certified Nursing Assistants article needs to be amended to make it less USA based. --Vince 09:26, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Other healtcare workers

message: :See also the parallel discussion at  Talk:Nursing#Merge
I have added a merge request - it is simply silly having both, especially as this page is becoming too long - perhaps the section on 'countries' need to be individual pages, and these can each be part of a new category Ianguy 05:33, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge