Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the physician.
护理学作为一个典型的女性类职业，必须要改变那种作为护士必须要跟在医生后面的错误观念
As nurses, we are licensed to provide nursing care only.
作为护士，我们有资格权力只提供护理服务。
We do not have any legal or moral obligation to any physician.
对任何医生，我们都没有任何法律或道义上的义务。
We provide health teaching, assess physical as well as emotional problems, coordinate patient related services,
我们提供健康教育、评估身体和情感上面的问题、协调与病人相关的各项服务
and make all our nursing decision based upon what is best or suitable for the patient.
并做出基于对病人最好或最适合的护理决策
If in any circumstance we feel that a physician's order is inappropriate or unsafe,
如果在任何情况下，我们觉得医生的指令是不合适的或不安全的
we have a legal responsibility to question that order, or refuse to carry it out.
我们都有法律责任来质疑这项指令，或者拒绝执行。
Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off.
护理不是一个朝九晚五、拥有周末的工作。
All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession.
在进入这个职业领域之前，所有的护士都明白这一点。
The emotional and physical stress, however, that occurs due to odd working hours is a prime reason for a large of the career dissatisfaction.
然而，由于加班引起的情感和生理上的压力，是产生职业不满的主要原因。
It is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we change shifts four or five times a month.
我们有时需要加班，我们一个月还会换班4到5次。
That disturbs our personal lives, destruct our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except job related friends and activities.
这打乱了我们的个人生活，破坏了我们的睡眠和饮食习惯，还把我们和其他一切隔离，除了与工作相关的朋友或活动
The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations.
护理质量是被这些情况影响最大的，
Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced nurses finally give up trying to change the system.
现在大多数医院都是应届毕业生来担当这个职位，因为经验丰富的护士最终都会放弃试图改变这一系统。
Consumers of medically related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand changes in our medical system.
医疗服务的消费者们显然没有受到足够大的影响，以至于让他们去呼吁医改。
But if trends continue as predicted,
但如果按照预期趋势继续发展下去
they will find that most critical hospital care will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.
他们会发现，最关键的医院护理工作将会由年轻的、经验不足、有时训练不足的护士来担任。