Section C
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 (36)________io provide nursing care only. We do not have any legal or moral (37)________to any physician. We provide healih teaching.
(38)________physical as well as emotional problems. (39)________patient-related services.
and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. If. in any(40)_________. we feel that a physician´s order is (41)________or unsafe, we have a legal(42) ______ 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 (43)________reason for a lor of the career dissatisfaction. (44)______________That disturbs our persona! 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. (45)
_____________________________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, (46)__________________________________________

36.licensed
37.obligation
38.assess
39. coordinate
40. circumstance
41.inappropriate
42.resposbility
43. prime

44.lt is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we change shifts four or five times a month.

45.Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced nurses finally give up trying to change the system.

46.they will find that most critical hospital cares will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately rrtrained nurses.