big bad nursing myths busted

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In the name of nursing week I will defend our profession. I'm not trying to stir up controversy, but lets admit nurses perpetuate myths about their own profession and injure nursing's rep way more than everyone else can. Ever heard any good ones?

For example:

Geriatric nursing is only for untalented nurses and ones gearing down for their retirement.:trout:

Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Love the "nightshift doesn't do anything" one.

I would love to sit and 'only' rock babies when I'm in the nursery!

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Nursery nurses get paid to rock babies.

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Even better, "NICU nursing is so great All you do is sit and rock little babies all day!" :angryfire

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Specializes in Geriatric and now peds!!!!.

Dang, I am in the wrong speciality!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol. I would love to hold and rock little babies all day long!!!!!!!!!

Wendy

LPN

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Specializes in Obstetrics & Gynecology,Medical/Surgical.

All nurses do is empty bedpans and wipe butts.

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Education.
How can you tell a psych nurse from her/his patients?

I thought they were the ones with the keys! ;)

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Even better, "NICU nursing is so great All you do is sit and rock little babies all day!" :angryfire

It would be mighty hard to sit and rock the baby with the isolette or vent, I'll try it tonight (when they are all sleeping through the night) at work and let you know how it went.

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Specializes in Lie detection.
At my first job in a LTC facility I met a nurse in her 70's who had been an RN for over 50 years. She once told me that when she graduated from nrsg school, only the poor students without good references, took jobs in home care (private duty). Working in home care meant you weren't good enough to get a job in an acute care hospital. The attitude was that private duty home care was akin to "maid". Since I'm a home health nurse, I'm glad that attitude has changed in (now) 60 years.

Oh I don't know how much it's changed. I still get the feeling that a lot of people think that home care nurses "weren't good enough" to work in the hospital setting. Uh, where do they think many of us came from? ;) Things said on this very forum have been offensive to home health nurses.

So, THAT is a myth. Home health Nurses have good and bad nurses just like evry other area. Many good nurses and hopefully very few bad .

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Med-Surg..

Here's one I just heard from a member of my family who is not a nurse:

"All these nurses today have such attitude, they are paid well and always have a job, yet they won't give backrubs anymore". Yes folks, I really did hear this. :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

canadian nurses skidoo to work

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na haa muffie. I take a dogsled.

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Go to school to be an RN, because only the LPN's and NA's have to do bedpans, baths, etc...

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Specializes in Medical Telemetry, LTC,AlF, Skilled care.

LPN's are the retarded version of RN's :angryfire

Med/Surg and LTC is full of all the lousy nurses who don't know what their doing

If you enjoy taking care of Hospice patients then you enjoy watching people die

Psych nurses are weird and are mentally ill themselves

It must be nice to work Night shift because you get to sleep LOL yeah right

Men only go into Nursing because they're not smart enough to get into Medical school

Those are the ones I hear most often, ugh lol

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