If I had a dollar every time I heard....

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Recently, I have heard the same thing a MILLION times from newby nurses and talking with my fellow co-workers we have a running joke about it.

New nurses who say: I want to get into the ICU and go to CRNA school!!!

When a student comes to our unit I love to bait them until I hear them express this. If all these students actually went to CRNA school who would be available to perform all the other nursing jobs? It kills me! God love 'em!

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Specializes in ER.

I'm a hard stick, they only get me with a butterfly.

I was talking to (hospital bigwig) just the other day.

How much longer do I have to wait?

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Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.

I work in the OR. If I had a dollar every time I heard "I do it the same way every time" or "it is on my preference card" from a surgeon, I would have a nice big house a the beach!

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I'm a hard stick, they only get me with a butterfly.

I was talking to (hospital bigwig) just the other day.

How much longer do I have to wait?

Yeah... the butterfly things kills me. What most of them is really trying to say is "I'm afraid of needles, please use the small one." Which is fine by me. :p

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Specializes in LTC.

High school students who know squat about nursing wanting to be CRNA's.

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilites,.

"I don't know the name of the drug, but its the little blue pill. You know the one I mean. '

No, I really have no idea which little blue pill you take. Especially since you don't even know what it is for!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
"I don't know the name of the drug, but its the little blue pill. You know the one I mean. '

No, I really have no idea which little blue pill you take. Especially since you don't even know what it is for!

OMG I get this from parents when I ask what medications their child is on! :eek:

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I dont want to get into ICU and go to CRNA school? :) I dont even think Canada has CRNA's. :) Whatever happened to bedside nursing... im not even near graduation yet and half my classmates are only in nursing school because they failed at getting into med school.

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"you gals don't get paid enough" and then said taxpayer snarks and moans whenever the contracts for nurses are up for renewal.

"I couldn't do your job"

"I built this country and I deserve x,y, whatever" (uhm, so YOU voted Liberal in the '60s and '70s and created the mess my generation has had to clean up, I'd love to be able to say THAT)

"I'm a senior and on a fixed income" No, poop Sherlock, the rest of the country is on a fixed income. I don't get raises by asking, I can pick up extra shifts and those are becoming hard to find.

"Oh, Mum would never hurt a nurse, she respects them" said by the family of a patient who sent a male nurse to the ER after kicking him in the groin.

Gotta love those taxpayers.

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Specializes in Sub-Acute/Psychiatric/Detox.

If CRNA is what interests you then so be it.

As an LPN all I hear is oh I am going to school to be an RN (nothing against RNs)..

I respect what CRNAs do.. I fall back on what I believe in though you better love being a CRNA and eat and breath this stuff and have a full understanding of what they do before you think about taking on such an endeavor. CRNA doesn't interest me.

Then again people say if I was a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner all I would do is write all day.

I am so tired of people asking me when I am going to become an RN. I will do this when someone comes and pays my bills for me so I can live for free while I go to school in the day time.

I like being an LPN so far..

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Specializes in Developmentally Disabled, LTC, Clinic, Hospital.

All I want is a refill on my Xanax and Vicodin, why do I have to see the doctor for that?? Can't you just call them in for me?? :nono:

I hear that at least 5 times a day in my clinic!

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Specializes in Tele.

from nursing students/externs/interns:

I just really don't ever see myself wasting my time doing med/surg.

I'm going straight to the ICU, b/c thats where I'll learn the most.

I would never work for this hospital.

This is really boring, I don't feel like I'm learning much.

I love working nights b/c fortunately I don't have to hear it that often :)

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