Can you become a nurse without making the effort?

My last night at work I had the joy of working with a nurse that just GETS UNDER MY SKIN!....she has a terrible attitude, shes rude, obnoxious, lazy.....just a true waste of the states income that put her through nursing school.....my own graduating class to make it even worse.....I had a cna come up to me and she started asking me about nursing school when I went. She wants to be an LPN. We began to talk about the pre reqs and the program itself and this other nurse just butted right in after I told this cna that in order to be a nurse one should actually put forth the effort in school because in real life its DIFFERENT than school because you dont have an instructor there to hold your hand and walk you through things and the things that we are all tested on in school play a role in how we become nurses. ...well...this nurse told her "ahhh...you dont even have to open your book! I looked at it maybe one time in school. its not hard at all. "....so I gave her a look and said "It shows!".....but it confused that aide. She is a young bright girl who has a huge desire to work and to learn. I was trying to encourage her and get her to see that not all nurses are like the one I had the displeasure of working with. I proceeded to tell her some of the differences in responsiblity between nurses and aides and how school played a part in learning that. It really hit a nerve when that nurse said that to her...it was almost like she was trying to be condescending and contradicting. I told the aide later on in private that not all of us nurses act like that and that some of us actually care about what we do and appreciate the education that we recieved. I know I do. Im not perfect in any way....but it was just offensive I thought. This same nurse also told me that she was thinking about giving up nursing because she hates it and hates nursing homes *which is where we work* and she hates other nurses etc etc. I asked her why she bothered to stay and waste her time and our facilities time if she hated it so bad? She never answered that one. so..my question is this....do you think that you would be a nurse today if you had just made no effort to reach your goal of becoming licensed? If so....how has it worked out ?
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