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In recent years, numerous studies show that nurses are becoming increasingly resentful and disappointed about how the medical staff is treating people in their line of work. Medical staffs are mainly composed of physicians and surgeons, and studies show that medical staff tends to use a heavy-handed approach when interacting with nurses. Many of them appear to belittle the work that nurses do on their behalf and think nothing of patronizing nurses. Although Dr. Mark Antman has never acted in such a way toward his nurses – and they can certainly vouch for this as well – he does acknowledge seeing the same thing happening in the facilities he work in or visit. Nonetheless, Dr. Mark Antman is adamantly against such practices. He does not hesitate in saying that the work of nurses is just as important as the work he or any physician does. In some cases, their work is even more important. There will come a time when a physician no longer has any treatment or medication available to cure or treat the patient. A nurse, however, always has an infinite supply of compassion to give to a patient as she or he takes over the patient’s bedside care until the very end. Because of their line of work, nurses also learn to be more understanding of a patient’s condition as well as the suffering that the patient’s loved ones are undergoing. For this matter, nurses often make the better choice than physicians when it comes to explaining the patient’s conditions and requirements to his or her family members. Nurses are always expected to coordinate with medical staff from different fields and departments, thus making them the perfect person to liaison with professionals from outside the hospital. Dr. Mark Antman points out how nurses can easily relate to social workers or psychologists that may have been called in to provide additional assistance to a patient. The ease in which nurses are generally able to work with non-medical professionals can rarely be observed in medical professionals. Given the choice, Antman would immediately suggest to hospital administrators to provide better workplace conditions and compensation packages for nurses. Administrators should also make a point to establish rules and regulations that would prevent nurses from being discriminated or treated unprofessionally by their superiors. Such changes will take a long time to be implemented, but Antman greatly believes that the best way for such changes to take place is to start from the very top. Today, the most Antman can do is to treat his nurses in the best way possible and to let them know that their hard work is always appreciated. He also strives to make his colleagues similarly aware for the need to treat nurses as equals rather than their inferiors.
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