Nurses working harder than doctors?

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I came to conlusion that although I respect (the doctor's knowledge and ultimate decision making) that nurses work harder in physical and mental way.Sure the doctors are on the call 24 (not talking about surgeons cause they sure work hard) but we nurses coordinate everything,watch patients 24,have to recognize changes in health status,as well as know pathophysiology/diseases,deal with ongoing issues.

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I hate ganging up against one poster- so I will say that if anyone spends any amount of time on that dreaded other forum (SDN)- it certainly seems like docs have nothing but contempt for nurses. Also, I know I had my fair share of run-ins with ******** docs when I was a nursing student. So, I just hope that the OP is not getting too discouraged with the profession of nursing and hangs in there. I hope that she will continue on in nursing and have more pleasant interactions with the docs.

Ok- enough from me, I'm about to be on after a sleepless night and a long vacation :)

The majority of people on that particular forum are premedical and medical students who have just as little or less real world experience as the starter of this thread, so their opinions are also quite skewed.

Also, neither their forum nor ours are representative samples of our respective populations. We're both the vocal (and dare I say technologically proficient) minority.

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

I know the majority of the posters dont agree with the OP but please refrain from personalising your comments or I will close for moderators review

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Well, I think by now we've seen that this opinion by a nursing student is not widely shared by experienced nurses

Nor by some of us nursing students...

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For those of you who think Nursing school doesnt teach nothing I admit Nursing school is very easy,you dont have to even bring a pen and a paper to the class,what we do in nursing school is repair stethoscopes,on my first day working as RN I will administer a crushed synthroid to a patient with hyperthyroidism mixed with grapefruit juice and make sure the patient has big fat meal just before,on the day when I loose my license I will make sure to blame and sue my nursing school for producing a air head nurse with no reality check.

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For those of you who think Nursing school doesnt teach nothing I admit Nursing school is very easy,you dont have to even bring a pen and a paper to the class,what we do in nursing school is repair stethoscopes,on my first day working as RN I will administer a crushed synthroid to a patient with hyperthyroidism mixed with grapefruit juice and make sure the patient has big fat meal just before,on the day when I loose my license I will make sure to blame and sue my nursing school for producing a air head nurse with no reality check.

This conversation appears to be deteriorating.

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

Obviously this thread has run it's course will review

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