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Old Feb 08, 2008, 11:40 PM
pumpkin1984 (Female)
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Talking Question? - If you could make everyone a nurse, would you?

If you had the power of some sort to make everyone a nurse would you, and why or why not?

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Old Feb 08, 2008, 11:44 PM
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Re: If you could make everyone a nurse, would you?

NO! Some people just aren't Nurse material! My husband, for example.. God love him.. He just doesn't have the patience and compassion for people that it takes to be a good Nurse. Others are just lazy, incompetent or just plain (for lack of a better word) stupid.. lol.. I wouldn't want such people working alongside me OR as my Nurse!

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Old Feb 08, 2008, 11:53 PM
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Re: If you could make everyone a nurse, would you?

I would like to be able to make politicians, admins, and mgrs nurses for a day so they would have a clue.


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Old Feb 08, 2008, 11:53 PM
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Re: If you could make everyone a nurse, would you?

It would be nice for people to be able to understand what our job truly entails, but, like the previous poster said, there are some people who just have no business in the nursing business.

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Old Feb 09, 2008, 04:06 AM
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Re: If you could make everyone a nurse, would you?

could you imagine a nurse that passed out at the sight of a needle? or blood? or any of the various other things we get to see? NO WAY!!!!! how silly.

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Old Feb 09, 2008, 06:24 AM
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I wouldn't necessarily want to make everyone a nurse, but I would *love* to have everyone shadow a nurse just for a few hours to see everything we really do and put up with.

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Old Feb 09, 2008, 07:20 AM
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Some of my worst patients have been nurses! No way!!! (I wouldn't want me as a pt.) If everyone were a nurse, we'd have all of these non-compliant self-diagnosing hypochondriacs, like me out there!

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Old Feb 09, 2008, 07:20 AM
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I think everyone should get a birds eye view of what it's like, especially those who say we make too much money. But when I see those young girls at the hospital in their student scrubs, all I want to do is scream RUN!!!!!

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Old Feb 09, 2008, 08:11 AM
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No! I know there's a nursing shortage, but if this career choice was easy EVERYBODY would be doing it. Thats why I busted my tail & made it through school & passed NCLEX!
Sorry but fact of the matter is there are some TRUE idiots out there & I surely wouldn't want them out there taking care of my family.
I couldn't imagine some of my friends doing nursing. They just don't have the critical thinking that nursing calls for. It's a different type of thinking that not everybody is able to do.

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Old Feb 09, 2008, 08:33 AM
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If everyone became nurses who would fix my car or check me out at the grocery store?

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