It's been discussed here MANY times....how student nurses plan, often even before doing any of their nursing classes, to become CRNA's or NP's. It's SO very typical.
Labor Day weekend, I was up north with the fam. My mom's BF's grandson (who is about 8 years younger than me) is going in to nursing school. We were discussing career paths, and what does he say? You guessed it...he's going to be an anesthetist. "Or a NP," he adds a short while later. (so as to avoid the "messy" part of nursing....)
I didn't say a thing. Far be it for me to burst his bubble (and it's not like he can't do it, if he so chooses). He just seems to think it'll be one straight shot from start to finish. I tried to talk about needing experience, etc, before getting in to a Master's program...nope, he wasn't hearing it. I wanted to say, do you KNOW how many people think they are going to do that? Didn't say that either.
The whole conversation was such a cliche, after what I've read here, that I had to stifle a chuckle. Time will tell, I guess.
HaHa! That is TOO funny, but I think we all have done that very thing!! I decided not to go on to the second (RN) year as did 99% of my LPN classmates. I was already working at a nursing home and I felt that , for me, I was good with that after I passed my boards. I attended their graduations, and they almost ALL told me (in different words of course) that the RN year was a "nightmare"!! So far I am happy to stay an LPN. I am currently applying for endorsement in California, so who knows whats next?
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
I think the nonverbal communication we see and remember has a lot to do with some of our reactions. I was invited to give the convocation address at my Alma Mater last month.
Well that's kind of a big deal! What an honor! Maybe you could strip it of identifying info and post it as a nursing article!
My response: a cool smile, accompanied by "how delightful."
Perfect.
In other news . . .seems like my prediction has been pretty accurate! What we have here is a shortage of nuance, an absence of context, and people who want to continue bashing away at what they thought the OP was saying even though she repeatedly attempted to clarify it - is there an emoticon for running around the room screaming and pulling your hair out? I guess not. Darn.
. . .I don't want to do it for years and years to come, so I will move on with my education and look forward to giving orders in 3 years as opposed to taking them .
So that's how you interpret the meaning of writing orders? Giving orders and taking orders? As a servile/overlord dynamic? How unfortunate. It's a shame you have such a disrespectful attitude about what the role of a nurse is.
HaHa! That is TOO funny, but I think we all have done that very thing!! I decided not to go on to the second (RN) year as did 99% of my LPN classmates. I was already working at a nursing home and I felt that , for me, I was good with that after I passed my boards. I attended their graduations, and they almost ALL told me (in different words of course) that the RN year was a "nightmare"!! So far I am happy to stay an LPN. I am currently applying for endorsement in California, so who knows whats next?
Please do me a favor- go back and ask them if they REGRET their current license (RN).
Most times humans are like that (nurses especially), they gripe a lot, but wouldn't trade that license for nothing, except a better career with better pay, of course:)
[The NP role] was basically (to me) an affirmation that what we do has value that can't be duplicated anywhere else and adds a unique viewpoint leading into a diagnostic role that is not an MD or a DO or a DC, not a PA, not a PCA, or a ... whatever.
Seems to me people now are the opposite. They view the job of a nurse as a nuisance one must dispense with as quickly as possible.
It bothers me that people have the "N" in their title and contempt for the "N" itself.
I guess you're just not smart enough to do the fast-track accelerated direct-entry blah blah blah courses and it's really sad that you hate education.
I hate reading this on AN threads - it seems to me that people who take this tack don't appreciate that there's more than one kind of education essential to being a good nurse. Formal, tertiary, post-graduate education is absolutely a key component, but the knowledge one gets from actually (who knew?) nursing is also vital.
For some of us, and I hope the OP's okay with my including her in this group, the attitude that inspired this thread is disdainful, dismissive and discounting of this aspect. The assumption that clinical experience is irrelevent for advanced practice roles devalues nursing knowledge, as well as all the skills, craft, and awareness that it is only possible to develop through clinical practice.
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
Thanks for the kind words, Talaxandra . . . and I guess I should just accept the fact that most people won't have any idea what we're talking about because if it didn't happen when they were around it didn't happen, apparently. it's a blind spot and they don't seem to take the time to carefully read what the OP is saying.
On a related note, my daughter is in the 5th year of a PT - AT program. She wants to work with sports injuries, etc. Last week she told me she is seriously thinking about going to medical school.
I said "whaaat??? How dare you mention the idea that you want to further your education while you are still in school!!! That is just unheard of!! The cheek these young people have today! :uhoh21: Alright, I didn't. That would make no sense. Possibly I should take their word for it when they explain what they actually meant.
Perfect. 
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Wow, some posters here are in the "right church and the right pew"
some are in the "right church...wrong pew"..and then there are a few who are not even in the "right church!!"