Emergency Room Staff Tensions

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This five page paper examines doctor/nurse tensions in terms of its importance in the wider context of Canadian health care by examining scholarly sources such as nursing texts, professional journals, and government publications, which all provide professional views of this important issue. This paper examines why doctor/nurse tensions must be minimized. The writer discusses what causes doctor/nurse tensions in emergency rooms and how they are exhibited and then relates how nurses are responding to this growing problem.

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"In a recent visit to an emergency room with an injured friend, the writer observed significant tension between the attending doctor and two of the emergency room nurses. Observation of their dispute led the writer to examine the issue of doctor/nurse relations in an emergency room environment. From the research, the writer has unfortunately learned that the tension witnessed in that emergency room was not uncommon in Canadian hospitals, for tensions between doctors and nurses occur frequently, due to a variety of professional and gender-related factors."

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