Going through nursing school, I have to say that it's overwhelming. They throw a ton of information at you all at once, most of which aren't on the exams (they don't tell you what information will be on the exams, either). It's so overwhelming that sometimes I think you have to be a genius just to pass these classes.
Then I meet nurses who are... well, let's just say they're not the brightest people I've ever met. Some of them have horrible grammer (they couldn't pass a 4th grade english class for the life of them), can't do math, and just have absolutely no common sense whatsoever. I worry for the people that these nurses take care of.
I've also seen some people post on this very site, posting things that don't make any sense with horrible grammer and exhibit no intelligence whatsoever... yet they're nurses. How the hell does that happen?
No disrespect meant towards anyone whatsoever, I'm not trying to upset anyone, but let's face facts, there are some less-than-average nurses out there, so how do they do it? Admittedly, I don't see them very often, but they're out there. That just scares me and confuses me at the same time.
Hey Petunia, I will tell you a story about people.
Intelligent people laugh about them self always because they know how "dumb" they are, lolll. From where I come is a true REAL story how to make others to fall in front of you and step on them, are people that was growup like that, is them life style, they educated children in this style. To pick on others and to make you look PERFECT is another one. Is the same story here, good and bad people are everywhere, but the difference here is that USA is a country with so many languages spoken insiede, and the difference beetwen grammar, grammer or any other styles.... at one moment is going with the flow, as soon we don't consider ourselves THE super duper nurses, lol part of super duper classy ones, looool who DESERVE!!!
Intelligence will help a nurse always to know from where is come, where she is, to know her streight and weak parts... and to not forget to look in mirror each day to see WHO HE/SHE IS, for real not dreaming at, looool
As soon as we start to peak on others critisizing other intelligence is just a proof... how limitated intelligent we are.
A poor grammar nurse with a BALANCED personality, welling to work... ... hey... will going to work finally.... BUT a unbalanced personality and twisted character nurse you will never changed it and neither you could dream at one change and sure you will never want to work with. IS like cancer...is spread arround...you don't want to be there...to see it, to work with!
Beetwen these two and adding many others facts ... here we are are with our discussion about intelligence and nursing
Some of this I didn't quite understand. I think you're telling me I shouldn't pick on the OP's spelling?
I know a staff member already pointed this out, but the post was all about less-than-intelligent nurses, and it was a bit ironic that the OP misspelled grammar while complaining about spelling and grammar. If you're going to post about nurses with bad spelling and grammar, you should make sure that your own post is perfect. I have never, ever picked on spelling issues until now. And YES, we all make mistakes sometimes and we're not perfect. And NO, I don't agree that nurses with bad spelling and grammar are "stupid". Some of the smartest people I know have terrible penmanship and spelling.
Then again, it's never a good idea to come to a public forum with judgments of others. Someone will always disagree with what you say, and it ends up looking like this thread.
Besides, clearly these less-than-intelligent nurses have some intelligence, because they pass nursing school AND they pass boards. That, in itself, is no small feat. And I'm sure that employers are well aware of which nurses don't cut it and which ones they need to keep an eye on.
I don't have much to say on this since I'm just beginning my nursing classes tomorrow, but I can say that when I get out there I hope those type of nurses aren't being crowd control. They are what give all the rest a bad name. I had to call someone out one time b/c they said that they don't see why nurses are all hyped and that they aren't s**t. That struck a chord with me and I just had to tell them that not all nurses are like that and you probably just encountered a bad seed of sorts. Then they went on to say that the whole hospital was like that and only the nurses of tomorrow could change it. "As far as I'm concerned", he said "anybody could do their job." Well, how about your job, mister!
You think nursing has dummies, try the other health care field vocations. Those schools are just churning people out like butter, promising them the world almost, and then when they get out there all they find is that they gave ~20k to a school that only wanted their 20k and could care less about them later. It's all about the profit! And then that makes it hard for people like my mom who has been doing Phlebotomy for 30 years and has a hard time finding a job with all the increased competition. From what I hear from her and patients, co-workers, and a few bosses when I used to tag along with her to work, she's one of the damn near best phlebotomists you could get. No vein digging needed!
In sum, I blame the schools for graduating dum dums. But hey, what can you do? The schools need to stop worrying about the numbers and instead worry about who they are sending out there into the world to represent their reputation.
Well, how about your job, mister!
petunia2016
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Some of this I didn't quite understand. I think you're telling me I shouldn't pick on the OP's spelling?
I know a staff member already pointed this out, but the post was all about less-than-intelligent nurses, and it was a bit ironic that the OP misspelled grammar while complaining about spelling and grammar. If you're going to post about nurses with bad spelling and grammar, you should make sure that your own post is perfect. I have never, ever picked on spelling issues until now. And YES, we all make mistakes sometimes and we're not perfect. And NO, I don't agree that nurses with bad spelling and grammar are "stupid". Some of the smartest people I know have terrible penmanship and spelling.
Then again, it's never a good idea to come to a public forum with judgments of others. Someone will always disagree with what you say, and it ends up looking like this thread.
Besides, clearly these less-than-intelligent nurses have some intelligence, because they pass nursing school AND they pass boards. That, in itself, is no small feat. And I'm sure that employers are well aware of which nurses don't cut it and which ones they need to keep an eye on.