Little Doctors

Merlyn · Apr 28, 2012

Well, at least I now know where I won't go to nursing school. I was attending an info session for newly admitted students when the head of admissions came out with this gem: The requirements for nursing have gotten so much harder that it's like nurses are expected to be "little doctors." Wow.

The sad thing is you will be a doctor by the patient's family or your own friends. The families of patients don't want to hear the worlds I don't know. They want to know what is happening to their love one. If you become a nurse you will be smother in questions. As to what is 'really' wrong with father. and at home I don't get any peace. My wife comes up to me almost everyday with "Do I feel warm to you? or what's this pimple on my back, I have cancer don't I." Get use to it, Kid. This is what you go to look forward to, and if you get a degree it will be worst. So, the instructor was right you if you become a nurse, will become a little doctor.

sejones · Apr 28, 2012

Just want to clarify that I'm objecting to the use of the belittling term little doctor and not to the concept of science-based nursing school curricula. I chose to go to nursing school instead of medical school because I wanted to be a nurse and not a doctor. Had I chosen the medical school route, I would not expect to be called "a big nurse." Viewing nurses as inferior doctors doesn't help either profession.

Merlyn · Apr 29, 2012

Just want to clarify that I'm objecting to the use of the belittling term little doctor and not to the concept of science-based nursing school curricula. I chose to go to nursing school instead of medical school because I wanted to be a nurse and not a doctor. Had I chosen the medical school route, I would not expect to be called "a big nurse." Viewing nurses as inferior doctors doesn't help either profession.

Lighten up. I could have follow another career that I have a degree in, but I chose nursing. With everything going on in the world war, hunger,and hate, you going to kvetch about somebody saying nurses are 'little doctors'. That to some people is what we are. Just wait, if and when you become a nurse and have been in the business for a while, that will be the kindest thing people will say about nurses. Just remember if the patient gets well the family will thank God or the Doctors first. If the patient dies it will be the nurses that screwed up.