THANK THE NURSE

Thank the Nurse

"Thank the Nurse"

1. Doctors and Physicians diagnose and prescribe.
Surgeons can operate but they don't save your life.
For when the fever's burning, who helps you through the night
Gives you medication and checks your vital signs?
When you wake up in recovery who's right there by your side? 
With a smile and reassurance, restoring your self-pride.

CHORUS:
Thank the Nurse that's nursing you.
The one that nursed you through.
Thank the Nurse that's nursing you,
For saving your life....for saving your life..
For SAVING YOUR LIFE!

2. Oh, the Doctor is important of that we can't deny.
But when you get down to it, the Nurse keeps you alive.
The one who cleans your body and bandages your wounds.
The one who makes your bed, gives you medicine and food.
Helps you through contractions, until the pain subsides.
Encourage you to make it 'till you hear your baby cry!

CHORUS:
Thank the Nurse that's nursing you.
The one that nursed you through.
Thank the Nurse that's nursing you
For saving your life....for saving your life...
For SAVING YOUR LIFE!

3. When you're sick and convalescing you're seldom in the mood
To pay attention to the one attending you.
So full of rack and worry you think you'll lose your mind.
You survived the accident but all your friends have died.
When the orderly is sleeping and physician can't be found
No need for apprehension a nurse is making rounds!

CHORUS:
Thank the Nurse that's nursing you.
The one that nursed you through.
Thank the Nurse that's nursing you
For saving your life....for saving your life...
For SAVING YOUR LIFE!

Summary:

The song Thank the Nurse shows how important nurses are to patients facing darkest hours, particularly in war. It is suggested that physicians provided all important care to those wounded in the war.  But this song gives more respect t o nurses than doctors.

    This song Thank the Nurse is all about what nurses do to save and improve the lives of people. It compares the nurses to Physicians. As the song is only Thank You to nurses, it has less a story. It relates to the characteristics of the living things. The song has a general chorus.

    The lines in the song emphasizes about the round the clock care of the nurse. It talks about the important role of a nurse. This kind of care is not associated with any great technical skill. However, it focuses on psychosocial care. The Nurse ‘helps’ you, stays by your side, smiles and offers reassurance, encourages you, cleans you, makes your bed, gives medicine and food, and makes rounds. Surely the song has many suggestions that nurses make to keep one alive.

    Then there are physicians’ lines. These are almost shocking, as they actually suggest that nurses are more important. It says that the physicians diagnose, prescribe and operate, but often they ‘cannot be found’ and finally they don’t save your life. As key parts of the health care team, nurses and physicians with statement of his society is that physicians save lives and nurses are their helpers.

    The most important thing is the firm psychological care that dominates the song. The song gives no direct sense of patient advocacy. These lyrics neither tell about the skill nor about the advanced physical care. Here the nurses seem to be doing all of these things as part of their own duties, rather than at the directions of physicians. This at least implies autonomy.