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!

Specializes in pulm/cardiology pcu, surgical onc.

When can I eat?

For the love of god you just had half your guts cut out 12 hrs ago and you're worried about food?

When can I get this NG tube out?

Well let's see you just put out 800ml in the last 4hrs. Hmm... not anytime soon.

But # 1 is still when will the dr be in.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTC/Geriatric.

Person-"I have this rash (non descript, tiny red bumps), what is it and what will make it go away?"

Me-If I knew the answer to that, I would have gone to school for 12 years and earn $50 for telling you the answer"

:nurse:

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Specializes in LTC.
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..

I don't think they realize that they are going to eat, sleep, breathe CRNA material.

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Specializes in acute care.

"Hi, can you list ALL the best Nursing Schools in my area for me? Thanks"

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Specializes in NICU.

Heh, my end goal is to be an ICU nurse, but I'll probably have to do Med/Surg first.

"We didn't talk about that in class"

"Hey, you're a nursing student. Why does *insert body part* hurt?"

or "Can you look at *insert body part* and tell me what's wrong?"

Are you sure you want to trust an unlicensed nursing student's opinion over a licensed doctor's diagnosis, which even when I am a nurse, I cannot legally give?

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