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| Advertisement Sponsored Links | | | | No. 32 | 
May 08, 2009, 03:56 AM
 Re: Getting into Nursing Just to Get a JOB!!
Thanks God that Ud give the freedom of speach! WRONG WRONG WRONG, totally WRONG!
A nurse without a inner nurse path will be the worst nurse ever! Even if she will play all rules even if she will respect all codes and procedures, because she will not be THE NURSE, she will be just a BIONIC-NURSE a nurse for money, a nurse who a the last new opportunity he will go out from profession, a nurse who can be sell it and buy it, a nurse who want a cushion job with lot of money, a nurse FOR herself and for MONEY before a nurse for patients.
The schools need to select well the potential candidates for nursing, they will be your future american nurses. And if you will tell me that Miss Ford, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Manager, Director executive, PR or so many.... with high mangerial positons and "pretty classy" will be some good nurses one day if they will want....I will said you NO, is false.
I am not american, I barely understand your language and your culture, but your moms and dads will be one day on them hands (I already have a Visa to fly back on my old wild country, just in case, loooool so is not about me...)... you want the best for them, so choose good the people who enter and finish nursing schools. Are a loooot of aspirants to become nurses, choose wise!
Training creepy nurses you will have creepy nurses, training hearts, you will have nurses with hearts
 | | No. 33 |
May 08, 2009, 04:00 AM
Re: Getting into Nursing Just to Get a JOB!!
Well I am not going into to nursing not to get a job but I'm sure that's already been said.....
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May 08, 2009, 10:34 AM
Re: Getting into Nursing Just to Get a JOB!!
I'm sorry, but I would rather have a confident, smart, capable nurse who was not "called" into nursing to care for myself or my family than some vapid kid who has the idea that nursing is her "calling" but has not a lick of common sense.
Schools should admit the most qualified candidates. If that means someone who does not have the grades to get in but has this so-called calling is left out, then SO BE IT.
| | No. 36 |
May 08, 2009, 10:38 AM
Re: Getting into Nursing Just to Get a JOB!!
I actually bust out laughing when I read this. Originally Posted by loveshospital  If you dislike your job so much you can always go back to doing something else...I'm tired of people using the same old example of McDonalds,it is like people who come from different countries complaining how US sucks,this is not a jail just like nursing isnt so you are free to get out...
Thanks for the lecture...that's also another great thing about America opinions are like a certain part of the anatomy everyone has one and yours counts for just as much as mine does. 
It's amazing how self-righteous some nursing students can be. You're not in nursing for the right reasons (those "right" having been defined by me the nursing student) so you don't deserve to be a nurse and I DO. Whether you think someone should or shouldn't be in nursing is irrelevant because you aren't the gatekeeper of the profession and with NO experience except what you've acquired in clinical you don't really have a good idea of what it takes to make a good nurse.
Trust me for all my trash talk I do my job very thoroughly and the residents never see this side of me. These days I work a bit less and I float and when I see a resident who isn't on the floor I'm currently working they ask Ms. _________ when are you coming to my floor? I have never been disciplined or had a family make a complaint about my work. In addition I have graduated from NS, passed the NCLEX, and fulfilled all of the requirements of my states licensing board. Sorry but when I was filling out my application for my LPN license and just recently my RN license I didn't see any questions about why I was becoming a nurse nor did I see any disclaimers stating that giving the wrong answer would result in a denial of my license.  | | No. 37 |
May 08, 2009, 10:47 AM
Re: Getting into Nursing Just to Get a JOB!!
The arguement , that if you don't like something , stop moaning and go is a spurious arguement . Some of the greatest changes in this country have come about by people who did not accept their present circumstances , the best examples of this I can think of are women seeking the ability to vote and African Americans seeking equality . If either of those groups had shut up , this would be a very different country . This is also relevant to people who come from a different country , they have seen how other societies work , they recognise both the good and bad of the USA , one of those good's is freedom of expression , so if they feel they have seen something being done better in other countries they can say so . It does not mean they think America is terrible , or that they should get out ,because maybe their insight could , as it has in the past help this country develop further , remeber after all this is a country of immigrants .
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May 08, 2009, 10:52 AM
Re: Getting into Nursing Just to Get a JOB!!
This is getting a little heated, and I just want to point out that we can't generalize about people who say they are "called" to nursing and those who chose it because they thought it was a good career move. There are certainly a million different personalities out there, and good and bad nurses mixed among both groups.
The only difference is that those who say they are "called" to nursing felt at one time or another (maybe when they were very young) that it was the right choice. Those who chose later decided more logically, maybe later in life.
Either way, to get into nursing requires the person is determined enough to commit time and energy toward their education. The education determines if someone is worthy of being entrusted with patient healthcare, not some "feeling." The nurse's behavior after being hired determines if they are worthy of staying a nurse.
One may argue that a person who is enamored with the idea of being a nurse from a young age might be a better nurse, but I don't buy it. Infatuation often dies down in the face of reality.
I'm not saying one group is better than the other, I'm saying we can't generalize.
| | No. 39 |
May 08, 2009, 10:57 AM
Re: Getting into Nursing Just to Get a JOB!! Originally Posted by loveshospital Each to his own,however due to the high stress level,crazy patient acuity,physical demands,disrespect,no-so great pay,other risks it is hard for me to imagine why on earth someone with complete lack of interest,no people skils choose nursing profession,seriously.
I think it would be better to sit behind the desk sipping on coffee and flipping the pgs of victoria secret catalog.
I work with the new grad that you described. Last to arrive for report, first to leave for breaks and at the end of a shift. Rooms are a disaster, patients have complained, co-workers are complaining, but until she fails her exam again, we're stuck with her. We've even found her sitting watching TV in vacant rooms when every call bell is ringing and transfers are arriving on the unit.
Her first degree didn't give her marketable skills, but the high grades got her into nursing school. We mentored her long and hard during her placements with us but noted that she had issues that needed to be addressed in order to pass the course. Well, our manager went on holiday and guess who got hired? Yup she has a pulse and a degree and an interim licence...
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