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I'm a first year nursing student and to be honest, the majority of what I've seen nurses do is charting and give meds. Is this all I will do?

Daaamn. Everyone is in their feelings tonight lmao. Yes i am a nursing student but i would NEVER in my life be a nurse. EVER. The **** nurses go through and have to do for the salary they get paid is horrible. I knew coming into nursing school that I didnt want to be a nurse, and just being in the clinical setting, strongly reinforced that decision.

And for the example above.. :o Are you really bragging about digging in someones feces. Like thats something you enjoy doing? Lmao. Anyway, i stand by the comments I have made. NURSES think they use their brain alot? Than what do doctors do? LOL. Doctors are the ones truly saving peoples lives.. Nurses are just babysitting. Stop acting like nurses analyze every single little thing over every single second of work. Most of the time youre being a waiter, cna or housekeeper :)

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Specializes in NICU.
Yes i am a nursing student but i would NEVER in my life be a nurse. EVER. The **** nurses go through and have to do for the salary they get paid is horrible. I knew coming into nursing school that I didnt want to be a nurse, and just being in the clinical setting, strongly reinforced that decision.

And for the example above.. :o Are you really bragging about digging in someones feces. Like thats something you enjoy doing? Lmao. Anyway, i stand by the comments I have made. NURSES think they use their brain alot? Than what do doctors do? LOL. Doctors are the ones truly saving peoples lives.. Nurses are just babysitting. Stop acting like nurses analyze every single little thing over every single second of work. Most of the time youre being a waiter, cna or housekeeper :)

So you are nursing student, but "would never in my life be a nurse" and "I knew coming into nursing school that I didn't want to be a nurse". Then why are you in nursing school if you never wanted to be a nurse?

FYI, Doctors don't save lives, nurses do. Doctors see the patient for 5 minutes per day and nurses are there 24/7. Nurses are the ones assessing the patient's condition throughout the shift, not the doctor. You act like "Oh, your BP is dropping, you can't breathe, and you're coughing up blood. I'll call the doctor and have him come and save you. He should be here in an hour. Do you think you can hang on until then? In the meantime, here is some water and a magazine".

I think your posts are getting into troll territory.

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Oh im a troll all of a sudden because im just speaking my mind? Ever hear of a profession called nurse practitioner? I stand by my comments. Who cares about the amount of time a doctor spends with their patients. You're acting like nurses only have 1 patient at a time and spend 100% of their time with that single patient. Doctors do the important work- they diagnose, prescribe medication.. And nurses do the dirty work and babysit. But ****, bless everyone who is willing to become a nurse and do all that work for that amount of pay lmao.

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Specializes in ICU.
You're acting like nurses only have 1 patient at a time and spend 100% of their time with that single patient.

I do this all the time. Or two nurses to one patient. Recently three nurses to one very, very sick patient. You seem to have very little idea of what nurses do outside of a med-surg or LTC environment. I also haven't brought water to a patient in more than five years, since that seems to be a task you're really hung up on. But I'm sure you'll make a fantastic nurse practitioner!

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Oh cool, so you work in the home setting. Im speaking on my experiences so far in the clinical setting. Being a nurse is just very unappealing for me and I have no idea why so many people are jumping on my back like that. And yup- Im going into a REAL profession, where i will ACTUALLY help people out.. Not just babysit and call the doctor when there is a problem!

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I am a proud nurse.

I chart and I pass medications frequently. I also fly in a helicopter when I go to work, so there's that.

The opportunities in nursing are endless, and you are only limited by your own attitude. Focus on absorbing all the knowledge you can from the experienced nurses around you when you are at clinical.

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Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.

If the OP thinks they'll ever make it to nurse practitioner, they are sorely mistaken. And it's we nurses who keep the junior residents from screwing things up and catching their mistakes. Good bye.

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Specializes in ED, psych.
Oh im a troll all of a sudden because im just speaking my mind? Ever hear of a profession called nurse practitioner? I stand by my comments. Who cares about the amount of time a doctor spends with their patients. You're acting like nurses only have 1 patient at a time and spend 100% of their time with that single patient. Doctors do the important work- they diagnose, prescribe medication.. And nurses do the dirty work and babysit. But ****, bless everyone who is willing to become a nurse and do all that work for that amount of pay lmao.

Oh geez. Sweetheart, this type of post has been DONE before: "I'm not going to be a nurse, I'm going to be an APRN!"

Yeah. "LMAO" and "smh."

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I'd hardly consider a couple of months real experience in the clinical setting. If you have no interest in being a nurse why are you on a website called "All Nurses"... better yet, why are you wasting your time in nursing school? With that attitude you wouldn't make a good nurse let alone a nurse practitioner or doctor. If you enrolled in nursing school and realized that it's not the profession that you anticipated then you can still find another career field to go into. There are hundreds of other degrees out there. No need to be so arrogant and bitter to other people.

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Specializes in kids.
Daaamn. Everyone is in their feelings tonight lmao. Yes i am a nursing student but i would NEVER in my life be a nurse. EVER. The **** nurses go through and have to do for the salary they get paid is horrible. I knew coming into nursing school that I didnt want to be a nurse, and just being in the clinical setting, strongly reinforced that decision.

And for the example above.. :o Are you really bragging about digging in someones feces. Like thats something you enjoy doing? Lmao. Anyway, i stand by the comments I have made. NURSES think they use their brain alot? Than what do doctors do? LOL. Doctors are the ones truly saving peoples lives.. Nurses are just babysitting. Stop acting like nurses analyze every single little thing over every single second of work. Most of the time youre being a waiter, cna or housekeeper :)

I.Cant. Even.

I do believe we have been tricked.

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Oh im a troll all of a sudden because im just speaking my mind?

No, you've revealed yourself to be a troll because you so clearly don't know what you're talking about. Your ignorance is shining through like a beacon, but with the inflammatory language and juvenile slang, it reveals that you aren't just completely talking out of your $%$#, you're trolling.

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Specializes in RETIRED Cath Lab/Cardiology/Radiology.

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