The Mockery of Nursing

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Just a bit ago the top three threads involved:

1.I have a DWI. Can I be a nurse?

2.I am stupid. Can I be a nurse?

3.If it takes me five times to pass NCLEX, Can I be nurse.

Not much left to add. Says it all.

I once worked with a nurse who told me that an employer had told him to print due to his bad handwriting and he started printing from then on. Unfortunately, he stated that this caused him to take so much more time to get his charting done and it was really distressing to him at times. I have no idea how he made it through school.

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Specializes in Ortho Med\Surg.
I have had a multitude of discussions about handwriting with my seven year old (she's in second grade). She scores off the charts in all other subjects including scoring at a fourth grade reading level. Every time I talk to her teacher, she says she's doing wonderful in reading, math, spelling, social studies and science. Yet, she has the most atrocious handwriting one has ever laid eyes on. When I tell her about it, she says, "Printing is dumb and a waste of my time." I tried to explain to her that she needs to know how to write so she can communicate all of her wonderful ideas to the rest of the world to which she responds, "They have computers for that. I could just type them up." She goes to computer class once a week where they teach her to type. She hasn't started cursive yet, but needless to say I'm not looking forward to it. It's important, no doubt, I just am not ready to start that daily battle. The worst part is that her teacher doesn't really seem to care. She'll say things like, "She so far ahead in the other subjects. What are you so worried about?" Jeez, maybe about the fact that I can't read anything she writes. Nice.

My middle child (6th grade now) had a 2nd grade teacher that hell on wheels when it came to neat printing. That has stuck with all of her students and my daughter has the prettiest, neatest printing I've ever seen. Cursive, however, is another story! Her cursive is illegible! Funny how different kids excel at different things

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Specializes in ICU.

All of my teachers were incredibly stict about printing/writing. I have ridiculously neat handwriting and I think that's why hers kills me even more. It's not a can't thing, just an I don't want to thing.

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... The worst part is that her teacher doesn't really seem to care. She'll say things like, "She so far ahead in the other subjects. What are you so worried about?" Jeez, maybe about the fact that I can't read anything she writes. Nice.

Send her to medical school.

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Specializes in ICU.

Haha, that's what I told her I was going to do. She wants to be a vetrinarian/ballet dancer/gymnast so hey, it might just work out after all :rotfl:. She wants to stay as far away from human hospitals as possible and I don't blame her.

On a related note (and I'm not sure I've ever told this story here), it was my first code during NS and I got to participate fully. Of course, I shared it play by play with my husband. A few weeks later my daugher, who was about 5 and a half at the time, had the following conversation with me:

Her: You got to do that CPR thing a while ago, right mom?

Me: Sure did.

Her: Were you the one squeezing that purple bag thing or the pounding on the chest one?

Me: Pounding on the chest. We call it compressions, though.

Her: Right. The guy died, though?

Me: It was sad, but yea. We did everything we could but he ended up dying.

Her: Have you ever done it right so the person actually lived. When they do it on TV the person lives.

Nothing like a 5 year old to give you the dose of confidence you need...

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

Right there with ya -- it was several years I had someone survive a full code, even initially -- they didn't live to go home, but we got them back long enough for the family to get there form out of state and say goodbye.

After my first code in school, the other students wanted to know what it was "like" -- I said, hot, sweaty, and I needed to pee. Probably not the answer they were looking for...

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
and don't you know they'd show up in my er, afterwards?

ruby, you wanna come over and help me clean my computer? 'cause i just snorted up my cup of tea laughing over this one and coughed it all over everything. almost had to heimlich myself with my keyboard...

you're on your own with the computer clean-up, sport. i've had to clean various fluids off mine, too and you're probably just as guilty of causing said paroxysms of laughter as anyone else!

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After my first code in school, the other students wanted to know what it was "like" -- I said, hot, sweaty, and I needed to pee. Probably not the answer they were looking for...

S*** ALWAYS happens when you have to pee...

It's a rule, don't ya know?

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All of my teachers were incredibly stict about printing/writing. I have ridiculously neat handwriting and I think that's why hers kills me even more. It's not a can't thing, just an I don't want to thing.

in high school, one of my son's teachers found his cursive so atrocious, she had it eval'd...

and was officially dx'd with dysgraphia, per ot consult.:icon_roll

i wasn't buying it, my son just had bogus handwriting and was lazy/unmotivated, to boot.

still, i am flabbergasted that school(s) are taking away cursive???

can this really be true?

seriously, that is an outrage.

leslie

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LET ME BE THE FIRST TO TELL YOU...YOU WILL BE WIPING SOME ASS. How dare you choose a career like nursing and then say something like that? Nursing is not just popping a pill in someones mouth or starting an IV. You have human beings that you are in charge of caring for. How would you like it if you were unable to wipe you OWN ASS and had to depend on someone to do it. The floor is short of CNAs and you have a total care patient lying in feces and urine and you have to change their dressing located on their behind? Would you change the dressing and leave them in **** all day waiting on the overworked CNA to clean it up,or would you be a GOOD nurse and clean them yourself. Better yet what if that person was your mother and you see the nurse come in and say," the CNA will clean her whenever she makes it in." DONT EVER BE A NURSE...YOU WONT MAKE IT... YOU HAVE NO MORALS OR COMPASSION. Why dont you do us all a favor and fill out an application to a bank or something

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LET ME BE THE FIRST TO TELL YOU...YOU WILL BE WIPING SOME ASS. How dare you choose a career like nursing and then say something like that? Nursing is not just popping a pill in someones mouth or starting an IV. You have human beings that you are in charge of caring for. How would you like it if you were unable to wipe you OWN ASS and had to depend on someone to do it. The floor is short of CNAs and you have a total care patient lying in feces and urine and you have to change their dressing located on their behind? Would you change the dressing and leave them in **** all day waiting on the overworked CNA to clean it up,or would you be a GOOD nurse and clean them yourself. Better yet what if that person was your mother and you see the nurse come in and say," the CNA will clean her whenever she makes it in." DONT EVER BE A NURSE...YOU WONT MAKE IT... YOU HAVE NO MORALS OR COMPASSION. Why dont you do us all a favor and fill out an application to a bank or something

Are you on the right thread?

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Specializes in OR.

Wow. I'm a pre-nursing student who's only going for my ADN now so I can get a job quick because I heard RNs make lots of money and I want a job that will give me a lot of money fast so I know I'll get a good job and my new employer will pay for me to go back to school so I can get my BSN. Do you guys know which hospitals will hire new grads and pay for more schooling? It's okay if I have to move to a different city, but if the hospital is in a different city, you have to tell me where the fun places are because I do want a life too and I'm a party girl so I want to know where to go to have fun.

On a more serious note, I really am a pre-nursing student -- one of those "non-traditional" older students. In English 1101 last semester, many of the younger students had a good laugh at my expense when we had to pass papers around. Most of them had difficulty reading mine because I was one of those dinosaurs who wrote in cursive. In fact, the second week of class, I joked with my instructor that she couldn't already recognize me handwriting. She revealed that actually, she could, as I was one of the very few students who wrote in cursive. My 12-year-old son has learned just enough cursive to be able to sign his name.

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