I am not yet a nurse, but I am planning to go to college to major in nursing.
My boyfriend & I had a heated discussion yesterday about nursing.
He basically said "Anyone can be a nurse. You are gonna go to college for it, when my sister who dropped outta high school is taking classes & she will be YOUR boss. It is an easy job. You dont really do much; it just consist of memorizing info. You really don't do much work. ANYONE CAN BE A NURSE!"
I got so ****** that he actually did feel that way. I seriously want to be a nurse & for someone to say that all I'm doing is working under a physician & "handing him gloves" hurts my feelings.
He said that I want to get int nursing because I'm "dumb" && it's fairly easy.
He said they are making nursing easier & easier because it's such a huge shortage & they need more nurses.
I hate to be rude to you but you need a new boyfriend for several reasons.
he's obnoxious to you what kind of person calls their significant other dumb or even hints that they are?
If nursing is so easy and the schooling for it even easier then why isn't he in nursing school?
He's abusive to you in and there is nothing cute or playful about him threatening to hit you even if he pretends he is joking
Once he isolates you from your friends, family, and nursing school he will hit you for real and you will be so brainwashed by then you will actually believe you deserve it.
You're young get away from and get into nursing school and follow your dreams.
Many men out there would love to date a nurse, marry a nurse, hang out with a nurse you name it. There are dozens more men I have seen who work 2 jobs to pay for their girlfriends/wives schooling.
The husband of one girl in my class took a contract job in Afghanistan so that he could make nursing school money for her superfast. He just got back last week but 6 weeks into school he airmailed her flowers vase in all on a refrigerated cargo plane all the way from over seas. We all got to enjoy them. The week after that he mailed the largest box of chocolates I have ever seen in my life just so she could have something nice.
My husband rubs my back, my feet, lets me snivel and cry and practice assessments on him. He listens. He cares, he may as well be in nursing school too. He also listens to the complaints of any fellow students who happen to call my house and keeps them calm and focused as well.
Don't give up the best of yourself for some ungrateful, conniving weasel. You deserve so much more than what you are being handed. I want you to have a guy that will rub you feet, listen to you whine and just plain support you and think you and his mom are the best things ever invented.
I agree wholeheartedly with statements above....my husband is the same way, and always will be. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with him (for now). The truth of the matter is, he will never see that you have to (in essence) be a pharmacist, doctor, social worker, secretary, CNA, and oh yeah, also a nurse!! Just remember that what they said about people just seeing a nurse for a few minutes checking things and thinking that's all they do, and not understanding all that is being thought of and going on and all that is done on their behalf, is how people form their opinions, and if they really knew what goes on, they would be much more grateful. Yes, it is nice to be appreciated, but YOU will know what you've done for that patient, and there can be great satisfaction in that.
Wow--He is uneducated himself. Nursing nor Nursing school is not getting easier. It is getting more difficult as the hospitals get busier with an aging population. The patients on a medical floor have a higher accuity now, than in the past. He may want to shadow an RN one day to truely see how easy nursing is not!!!!!
Also, if he needs to talk to some people who didn't make it through nursing school, about half my class is available as many of them failed third semester.
What a jerk! Get rid of him.
I was so offended yesterday!
I am not yet a nurse, but I am planning to go to college to major in nursing.
My boyfriend & I had a heated discussion yesterday about nursing.
He basically said "Anyone can be a nurse. You are gonna go to college for it, when my sister who dropped outta high school is taking classes & she will be YOUR boss. It is an easy job. You dont really do much; it just consist of memorizing info. You really don't do much work. ANYONE CAN BE A NURSE!"
I got so ****** that he actually did feel that way. I seriously want to be a nurse & for someone to say that all I'm doing is working under a physician & "handing him gloves" hurts my feelings.
This has nothing to do with nursing, absolutly NOTHING!!!!! It has to do with commen respect for the goals and wishes of someone you love. If you had chosen ditch digging, he would have found a way to make it wrong. If you had chosen computer graphics, you would have been a geek! It is not about what you choose to do. It is about him. If you want to make your life about him, then so be it. But there comes a time when you have to think about where you want to be and how you want to live. (and who you want to spent that time with). Now may be a time to think about that.
As I have repeated this many times before, Hilary Clinton has said, and I quote "Nurses are overpaid and underworked" and another retired nurse heard her say, "Nurses are not worth anything over $6.00/hour"
I am not yet a nurse, but I am planning to go to college to major in nursing.
My boyfriend & I had a heated discussion yesterday about nursing.
He basically said "Anyone can be a nurse. You are gonna go to college for it, when my sister who dropped outta high school is taking classes & she will be YOUR boss. It is an easy job. You dont really do much; it just consist of memorizing info. You really don't do much work. ANYONE CAN BE A NURSE!"
I got so ****** that he actually did feel that way. I seriously want to be a nurse & for someone to say that all I'm doing is working under a physician & "handing him gloves" hurts my feelings.
Your boyfriend is wrong, on several counts: 1.Someone "taking classes" who hasn't a degree, won't be giving orders to an R.N. with a degree
2. Nurses are no longer doctors' handmaidens 3. Once someone walks the walk of a Nurse they can discuss the job, until that time, anything they say about Nursing is invalid!
He said that I want to get int nursing because I'm "dumb" && it's fairly easy.
He said they are making nursing easier & easier because it's such a huge shortage & they need more nurses.
OK, that does it! Drop that deadweight, and don't look back. His interest in you involves demeaning you and your chosen work. He is a millstone around your neck! What he knows about
Be smart and hang with others who appreciate you and your profession.
love184em
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That is a horrible thing to say to anyone.