If I Said on Here What I Wanted to Say.

[DixieRedHead]

I don't know if I am just hard hearted after so many years of nursing, or if I have just seen too many malingerers, or just too many people who blame their problems on anything and everyone but themselves. But if I answered half the posts on here with what I really feel, I think I would be thrown off.

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

heck, I have permanent demerits here because of saying what I was thinking. I think I called someone a butthead.

OH, say it isn't so!!! A butthead??

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

I would love to know (aside from financial gain- which is always THE reason for anything in healthcrare/"pre-healthcare"/whatever) how anyone could believe that nursing is going to be some glorious job.

Do they have posters with lovely, smiling, beautiful/handsome young things skipping down a glistening hallway with a golden bedpan, and odor-free puke in a Waterford puke pan? Do the patients in these recruitment posters all sit up in bed, walk themselves to the loo, and thank them for existing? Do the family members come in like June and Ward Cleaver, and leave promptly at 8pm?

Are doctors sitting on the edge of their beds at 2 am, just HOPING that one of those smiling newbies will call them, and ask them for an order for APAP??? Do the charge nurses have HOURS each day to come around and hug each and every new recruit "just because"

Are the nursing school instructors chuckling lightly when a student drops a patient on their head, and saying "Golly gee- we ALL make mistakes!! Next time, maybe you should get some help from someone to transfer that 500 pound double BKA patient from the bed to the BSC".

(image of Lily Tomlin in "9 to 5" flitting around in the ditzy costume with birds floating around her head)

Reality is frowned upon. So, we have students/newbies who want someone to say how brilliant they are, when they may not be able to find their way out of a paper bag. Twenty replies can say the same thing, and the OP keeps looking for someone to blame- NOT just think through what is being said, and get a clue. After all, what can 20 people with experience possibly tell someone who has never had a license????

I loved being a nurse. And I miss it (how it was in 2004 and before). With the things I hear from SOME posters, I pray I don't meet them.

[nursel56]

Klone!! Right on! Oops I meant where is the compassion?

I had someone accuse me of raising my daughter to hate her. Huh?? Turns out it was in a texti message thread to which I stated "both my daughter and I hate "u" without the quotes around it - thinking most people could infer what I meant based on context but no. It made more sense that I raised my daughter to hate a complete stranger.

My pet peeve lately is students regurgitating what they learned in Therapeutic Communication 101 in replies to vents/rants.

"you need to e-d-u-c-a-t-e the patient"

Really? Gosh I wish someone had told me that before!! Thanks!!

angry family member throws chair across the room "these families are stressed out you know" "you need to therefore understand him because he's scared"

Actually, no. He threw the chair because he's a jerk and if he does it again the big security man will send him to the curb.

Is nursing hard?

Yes.

Will I ever be a nurse?

No.

[caliotter3]

OP, found myself thinking the same thing during the past week.

[klone, MSN, RN]

And just to clarify for the admins - I absolutely harbor no ill will for the demerits. In your shoes, I would have done the same thing. It just makes me chuckle sometimes when I think about it. I've been trying harder to censor my fingers.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

heck, I have permanent demerits here because of saying what I was thinking. I think I called someone a butthead.

Ha! I have had demerits ('cause Administration doesn't understand that swearing is "our art" - We disagree because creativity is soooooo subjective, sigh)

If you speak the TRUTH no matter how bad, or shocking, you won't get deleted.

[nursel56]

OH, say it isn't so!!! A butthead??

When my very scholarly (PhD/MBA) brother returned to the States after two years in Switzerland I asked him to expound on the experience he said, "The Swiss are buttheads." *

That was it. I paused for a sec, with an unspoken annnnnnnd. .? that was still it. He went for another glass of punch. This closes the second episode of The Butthead Files. We now return to the regularly scheduled thread topic.

*if you are Swiss and not a butthead I'm not talking about you.

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Political correctness run amok.

[klone, MSN, RN]

Political correctness run amok.

Now don't tease us. You can't dangle such a potentially inflammatory statement in front of us without expounding!

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Now don't tease us. You can't dangle such a potentially inflammatory statement in front of us without expounding!

I tried to delete it. I just like the word amok.:)

36 hrs awake..............please don't say what you really think.:)

[Nascar nurse, ASN, RN]

At least daily I pound out some rather obnoxious reply that says exactly how I feel...then I re-read it....then I erase it and just go back to reading different threads. If I really feel strongly about the subject I will return later with a more appropriate response that I can hit the submit button. I'm just thankful that SO FAR, I've never actually hit the submit button at the wrong time.

It feels good to just get it out. Does anyone else do this routinely? Maybe I am just the butthead.

(Hitting submit now and there was no previous obnoxious response that was erased).

[caliotter3]

And just to clarify for the admins - I absolutely harbor no ill will for the demerits. In your shoes, I would have done the same thing. It just makes me chuckle sometimes when I think about it. I've been trying harder to censor my fingers.

Naughty, naughty little fingers! No pudding for you tonight!