Do you agree that Nurses are on the Worst Driver List?

That is pretty cool. The government worker one, I can see that for sure. I have plenty of military friends who lack in the driving department lol!

That's ridiculous.

So if I get a career that is not in the top ten list of worst drivers by profession, that will make me a better driver?

Give me a break.

That's ridiculous.

So if I get a career that is not in the top ten list of worst drivers by profession, that will make me a better driver?

Give me a break.

Dude, read the article before getting yourself all worked up. The list mentioned above refers to people that adhere to rigid schedules who are prone to multitasking while on the road during rush hour when most MVCs occur. Nurses certainly fit into this group and yes, if you did not have a job mentioned in one of the above categories you would statistically have a lower probability of being involved in an automobile accident.

Dude, read the article before getting yourself all worked up. The list mentioned above refers to people that adhere to rigid schedules who are prone to multitasking while on the road during rush hour when most MVCs occur. Nurses certainly fit into this group and yes, if you did not have a job mentioned in one of the above categories you would statistically have a lower probability of being involved in an automobile accident.

Dude.........I DID read it.

Geeeez.........seems you're the one getting all worked up.

DOOd :cheers::beer:

Statistically yes, personally YES!

Maybe it's because we have to wake up at 0530, clock in at 0700 - spend 8 hours (or more) rushing around without a single thought for ourselves (e.g., food, drink or the bathroom) and then drive home - and that's just the day shift... :)

Maybe it's because we have to wake up at 0530, clock in at 0700 - spend 8 hours (or more) rushing around without a single thought for ourselves (e.g., food, drink or the bathroom) and then drive home - and that's just the day shift... :)

I work evenings(3-11) shift.. so I'm usually on my way home around 11:30. One night I was driving home on a road that has a business building/soccer field lower than it and I saw lights ahead and I'm like oh my god.. its a plane landing on the soccer field!!" It was just a car coming up around the bend in the other direction.

I doubt it's a reliable scientific study.

I will say that, knock on wood, I've only had one speeding ticket and never wrecked since becoming a nurse. But there have been a few times after working one of those 12 hour shifts that equal 14 hours with barely time to eat shifts that I've arrived home not knowing how I got there. :)

I was a bad driver before I decided to become a nurse. When I drove a F150 pickup, my mantra as, "I'm Asian, and I drive a 2 1/2 ton hunk of steel - Move it or lose it". :)

My initial reaction was that I'm a very good driver. Which is true. When I'm awake.

My commute to/from work is only three miles. My only moving violation, ever, was a speeding ticket on the way home one morning, when I briefly forgot where the speed limit went from 40 to 25. My only collision was on my way to work, when a college student rear-ended me at a stop sign. I don't take credit for that one, since I was stopped.

I've recently driven to work several times when sensible people were staying home, but I have all-wheel drive and good tires, and I didn't wreck.

In nursing school, I formed the habit of taking the car out of gear and setting the parking brake at stop lights. It's better to wake up not moving.

And then there are all those second nights at work, when you know on the way in that you'll have the same peeps you had the first night, and you're feeling a bit suicidal...