Make It STOP!

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Trigger Warning: This is a general venting thread. Toes may be stepped upon. Snowflakes may face warm temperatures. No one person is the target.

Please, fellow AN participants, make the following stop:

1) Referring to your particular work environment as 'busy'. They are ALL busy. We get it.

2) Using the word 'devastated' in regards to something that does not involve death, loss of limb, or major natural disaster.

3) Talking about the PVT- I think I speak for 99% of the million or so AN members when I say this - "Patience is a virtue"

4) Doing people's homework for them when they have made no effort beyond copy and pasting to do the work themselves.

5) Asking a complex question and, upon getting a thoughtful answer from an expert who took time and energy to compose said answer, failing to thank the stranger who took time to help you.

6) Mistaking the straight truth for bullying.

7) Mistaking an answer that differs from what you want to hear for bullying.

8) Telling experienced nurses you'd NEVER want to be like them when you have no CLUE of how their experience influenced their answer.

I don't understand people who need the help of strangers to make simple decisions like, "Should I work days or nights?" Which do you want to work?

Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
I don't understand people who need the help of strangers to make simple decisions like, "Should I work days or nights?" Which do you want to work?

THIS x 1000!!!

Specializes in Gerontology.
I don't understand people who need the help of strangers to make simple decisions like, "Should I work days or nights?" Which do you want to work?

Or should I have a baby/another baby/stay at home with baby or work? Good lord, don't let strangers make life changing decisions for you!

And no don't have a baby. Get a cat. Cats are amazing

Specializes in ED, psych.

"ICU/ED/NICU/Flight nursing are the most coolest/beatest/glamorous nursing specialities ... whyyyy would anyone want to do med surg/psych/rehab/school nursing? That's not TRUE nursing."

ENOUGH already, people. We all work hard.

Specializes in Gerontology.

My favourite. What unit is most important, most glamourous, most exciting? Or sometimes, which unit is easiest because I don't want to work hard.

And how can I get out of working weekends and holidays?

Specializes in ED, psych.

Oh! "Should I go to (insert specific college nursing program here)?"

... well, I don't know, should you? I live 5000 miles away from that state, you tell me.

"Should I go into nursing?"

I don't know. Are you a serial killer or anything like that?

Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.

Or How about: I can't get a job anywhere, I have filled out soooo many applications and I am not even getting an interview. The managers should at leasts call me to tell me why I didn't get an interview. They are so unprofessional. Oh, and I only filled out 5 or 6 applications. But they should still call me and I won't relocate because I only want to work at this particular hospital.

Specializes in OB.

I saw the title of this thread and thought, "Maybe someone else besides me is going to talk about how they never want to hear the word ECLIPSE ever again!" One more question on my Facebook feed about where to buy eclipse glasses and I'm gonna go the hell off.

Now that I've actually read the thread, I'd have to agree with Wuzzie that the threads about "Should I become a nurse?" are the most puzzling. Literally no one can answer that but you. I understand wanting feedback from people in the field if you're not really that familiar with it, but at the end of the day, we don't know you, we can't tell you what to do.

Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

I'm a new grad and it JUST occurred to me that being a nurse entails working weekends and holidays. How can I avoid this - because my family is really important to me (unlike all the rest of the unwashed masses out there in Nursingland).

"Want to be a CRNA, what is the easiest way to do it, etc..." I'm not an elitist, but I don't want a fast-track CRNA. I'd prefer someone with several years of nursing experience, thanks.

"What is the fastest NP school?" I don't know, the one that lets you print out your own diplomas? Again, doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

"I have student loans from my first career, want to be a nurse ASAP, this program costs $80K, should I do it?" NO.

Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

As I was typing my post, it is literally number 3 in the must read topics

https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/which-is-it-1115080.html

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