PreMed13

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1. Does it bother you when someone wants to be a nurse just for the money?

   PreMed13 replied to KhloRN2be's topic in General Nursing

   I feel I should amend my statement: I'm not bothered by people being in it "just for the money" until a patient or the family of that patient suffers needlessly because of it. I agree that we all deserve to make a comfortable living, but certainly n...

2. Sometimes... do you hate your pts?

   PreMed13 replied to FRESH_90's topic in General Nursing

   Even as just an observing student sometimes I abhor the people we see in the emergency room I shadow in. They can be violent, entitled, disrespectful, and amoral. I can't tell you how many times I've had an incredibly inappropriate comment directed a...

3. Should Doctors Have Guns?

   PreMed13 replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

   I think that your example might be a tad extreme in just the dealing with caliber and type. I hardly think that a Desert Eagle is appropriate for the scenario that seems to have been posed. In my reading the post, it seemed to me that the idea was th...

4. Does it bother you when someone wants to be a nurse just for the money?

   PreMed13 replied to KhloRN2be's topic in General Nursing

   This might just be my own bright-eyed and bushy-tailed naivete, but it seems to me that people who are only in it for the money would naturally get weeded out; it seems like if someone can't handle the gross stuff--blood, feces, etc.--that they'll ne...

5. Should Doctors Have Guns?

   PreMed13 replied to Anxious Patient's topic in General Nursing

   I shadow as an observer in a Level One Trauma Center, and I have to say that for all of the violent and crime-based cases we get, we've never had an incident where a member of the staff was threatened with a weapon. We have wonderful security personn...

6. Is being a Male nurse weird?

   PreMed13 replied to Daniel Floyd's topic in Men

   I don't think there's anything strange about it at all! I'm just a volunteer in a hospital right now and I have to say the male nurses were always far more willing to help me with the tasks I couldn't do by myself than the female ones. They're also j...

7. Ever seen a pt live after 5 chest tubes?

   PreMed13 replied to Darkfield's topic in MICU

   I'm only a pre-medical student myself, but my mentor has seen someone with eight chest tubes recover with no lasting side effects.