Do you have to deal with these?

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do you have to deal with poo,pee and vomit in the ER if you're a RN? a PA? a NP? if yet, on a daily basis? just wondering. if this question sounds weird, dont mind me :rolleyes:

Actually guys.... Most places are requiring a PharmD degree to take Boards and become a licensed Pharmacist. That is a 7 year (?) degree and does entitle the pharmacist to be listed as Dr. So and So, as well as write some orders.

While in the past, one may have only needed a Bachelor's (5 year program), or a Masters Degree, and I believe that previous pharmacists with licenses have been "grandfathered" in,the group that governs pharmacists have been phasing in the PharmD requirement.

I only know this because I am friends with a rather chavinistic one that insists on the Dr and Mrs. (insert masculine first name) XXXXXX on all their addresses.

I keep wanting to ask when his wife changed her first name to (insert masculine first name), just because I find it annoying.

To clarify- I'm sure the OP was referring to an MD by using the term "doctor", and that she would not have any knowledge of what a pharmD is.

My own dh is a PhD research scientist. I don't mind "Dr. and Mrs" on our correspondence. I'm rather proud of him. :)

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Could I please remind people to debate ideas and provide opinions/information and not insult other posters?

TOS please.

i know. and these are the kind of people who will be helping new nursing students out in the future when there is a need of nurses :uhoh3:

you know why nurses are sooo stressed out a lot of times? they dont take care of themselves. taking care of pts is important, but not if you are not happy with yourself. go on a vacation and come back when you can have a sense of humor and it will make nursing a better field to be in for the rest of to be nurses.

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most doctors are on drugs anyways :rotfl:

wow you really know how to take a grudge on something dont you? there are pharmacists who are DOCTORS. didnt you know? you probably didnt until you read one of the last posts :uhoh21:

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oh and i think it is very possible for you to bond with pts even if you are grossed out my bodily fluids. you dont have to show that you are grossed out by something when youre in front of a patient.

i think there is a difference in the mindset of new nurses vs experienced nurses and there is nothing wrong with that and maybe it cant be helped. that does not mean that your way is right and our way if wrong. instead of trying to insult new nurses why dont you try to understand them and show them your ways and work together :uhoh21:

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most doctors are on drugs anyways :rotfl:

wow you really know how to take a grudge on something dont you? there are pharmacists who are DOCTORS. didnt you know? you probably didnt until you read one of the last posts :uhoh21:

There is a big difference between a "doctor" with a PhD and a medical doctor. Pharmacists go through college, often all the way through to a PhD, and get licensed to distribute medications. Medical doctors go through college, medical school, and three years of residency at a hospital. Too many people out there confuse the two. Like Dr. Phil - he is NOT a medical doctor, he just went to graduate school to get his doctorate (aka PhD). So while a pharmacist who went to graduate school might go by the name Dr. Smith, he/she IS NOT a medical doctor.

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ithen they shouldnt use the word "doctor" to refer them huh? :rotfl: who care if someone is a doctor or not. really.

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who care if someone is a doctor or not. really.

You cared enough to point it out a few posts ago, basically making nurses feel like they aren't as smart as "doctors" like pharmacists because they go through more science classes than nurses do.

Just try making it through a nursing program and then talk to me about science classes. Between chemistry, anatomy & physiology, microbiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology....plus all the nursing classes...we're quite educated in the area of science.

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then why do they make more money than RNs? i never said that nurses are too dumb to take the classes that for example a pharmacist takes. it is true that the classes that to be pharmacists take are harder because a person who went through it and then decided to become a nurse told me.

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Actually, the word "doctor" originated in academia, with the PhD. The medical profession "borrowed/adopted" the title.

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You cared enough to point it out a few posts ago, basically making nurses feel like they aren't as smart as "doctors" like pharmacists because they go through more science classes than nurses do.

Just try making it through a nursing program and then talk to me about science classes. Between chemistry, anatomy & physiology, microbiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology....plus all the nursing classes...we quite education in the area of science.

GOOD POINT--- JUST GOT A NEW SHIRT FOR NURSES WEEK MAY6-12 IT SAYS "NEED A DOCTOR? CALL A NURSE" :chuckle

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even a pharmacist school used the term "doctor" for pharmacists. i guess people want to be called doctors for studying a LOT. i heard that there is a law that will add a doctor in front of NP for nurses. so you would call them "doctor practitioner" or something like that :uhoh21: and there were medical doctors going crazy over that one

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do doctors really constantly tell nurses what to do?

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