What Do I Get? Re-Framing the Art of Nursing
I think that sometimes mental health practitioners do expect something in return for the services that they offer, often in terms of verbal appreciation of the client, their family, other co-workers, and/or the organizations that we work for. We all want that "thank you," the pat on the back that indicates to us that we have done a good job, that we have made a difference. However, I think that, in my experience, as I develop my therapeutic skills as a mental health nurse the reward that I get in the care that I give is more intrinsic, in terms of me being satisfied by knowing that I have done that best that I can do regardless of the outcome. I think that because the population of clients that I work with, in some of the areas of mental health services that I have worked in, there is a range of responses from clients from being appreciative of the service to being dissatisfied with the service provided. I think that when we have conversations with our clients in a co...