[RN1989]

I've seen 2 people that got looked down on but that was their own fault. When they came through on their residency they treated the nursing staff like crap. They expected to be waited on hand and foot. They wanted everything done IMMEDIATELY even if someone else was dying. They got mad when you paged them. They seemed to have totally forgotten what it was like to be a nurse and wanted the staff to be their handmaidens.

As long as you treat everyone with respect once you leave nursing you should probably be ok.

[Woodenpug]

Originally Posted by Hey There Elizah

I don't know why I worry about it. It seems like such a big deal to everyone else I have talked to. My adviser and a few of my teachers have told me not to tell anyone that I plan on going to med school. They said that people look down on it because I would be leaving a perfectly good profession and that a nursing education would be wasted on me if I was just going to go to med school.

That is a good point. Not that they would look down on you, but a different path to medicine would probably be more efficient.

If it's the scope of practice, then nursing scope can expand into most areas of medicine as a NP or CRNA.

I see the medical approach to patients as very different from nursing.

[blueheaven]

Most nurses that I have known that have went to medical school have been darn good doctors because they have seen both sides of the bed. You always have some that act like God but that is the way it is.

[BlueRidgeHomeRN]

[quote=Tweety;2842827]
Lot's of people think I'm an abomination because I'm gay. quote]


We all know you are a happy, upbeat guy! Why would that be an abomination????

[pagandeva2000]

I can see it happening, as another poster said that the crabs try to bring those that leave the barrel back down with them. I also think it would be nicer to have an MD that comprehends the situations of nurses...in fact, I can probably get a more accurate order transcribed. Go for it, and then, please come work at my hospital!

[pagandeva2000]

Originally Posted by Tweety

Do you care?

Lot's of people think I'm an abomination because I'm gay. I've long given up caring what people think of me. It's none of my business what they think.

How dare they...!!!! I love you and have never met you

[pagandeva2000]

Originally Posted by RN1989

I've seen 2 people that got looked down on but that was their own fault. When they came through on their residency they treated the nursing staff like crap. They expected to be waited on hand and foot. They wanted everything done IMMEDIATELY even if someone else was dying. They got mad when you paged them. They seemed to have totally forgotten what it was like to be a nurse and wanted the staff to be their handmaidens.

As long as you treat everyone with respect once you leave nursing you should probably be ok.

That is probably the other aspect that some of the nurses are anticipating...former nurses who forget where they came from. And, it would make me wonder if these nurses decided to become physicians in order to give the abuse that they received. If that is why they got into medicine, then, I REALLY feel sorry for their patients.