why nursing is a mess. three simple facts

Nurses Professionalism

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Specializes in Internal medicine/critical care/FP.

If you are expecting an elaborate article, you won't get it here.

1. cost too much to transfer license from another state. About 220 bucks just for me to transfer my RN license since I am moving to another state. Lame. it's not like ive performed any crimes in the past few months.

2. Phd in nursing- LOL? Who would get a phd in nursing? it is not like it is as an elaborate field as chemistry, biology, or psychology. WHAT A JOKE. This is pretty much just a bullbeat way to try to OVERLEGITIMIZE the nursing profession. What are you performing double blind controlled studies on.... HOW TO GIVE A BEDBATH OR BREAK THE SEAL ON THE ASPIRIN TABLET???? Keep it simple folks.

3. Overcomplication- nurses are probably the worst at over complicating things. I remember back in undergraduate, we were taught those elaborate care plans. Do you know what care plans are? GARBAGE. You never use them and nobody cares about them. Unless you are one of those old hags with a Phd IN NURSING..... You know what else is dumb. NURSING DIAGNOSES. you know what those are? cheap copies of medical diagnoses, aka nurses trying to legitimize themselves with medicine. I remember having to come up with these stupid things. IMPAIRED NUTRITION SECONDARY TO DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING. ARE YOU KIDDING ME, NO CRAP, IF YOU CANT SWALLOW YOU CANT EAT. NO CRAP ROFL. I also remember the nursing skills manual. 10 pages on HOW TO FOLD A FREAKING WASHCLOTH AND MAKE A BED. Go home overcomplicators, go home.

I also remember having to learn indepth about diagnoses such as cardiac tamponade. WHENS THE LAST TIME YOU PAGED THE DOCTOR AT 3 AM "Hey I think this patient is in cardiac tamponade, you know when they stick the tampon in lemonaide???" ARE YOU KIDDING ME... NEVER.

I could go on and on about point 3.

Overcomplication is a simple way to try to self-legitimize. Something the PHD level nurses are professionals at. Good professionals simplify as much as they can, not do this garbage.

This gunna be gud.

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

I hope that helped you feel better.

So much to say....however I will address this....

I also remember having to learn indepth about diagnoses such as cardiac tamponade. WHENS THE LAST TIME YOU PAGED THE DOCTOR AT 3 AM "Hey I think this patient is in cardiac tamponade
If you work in Trauma or cardiac surgery you make this phone call.

Hehehe, so glad to see someone else who doesn't get Nursing Diagnoses. And those ridiculous nursing care plans that take time and people just copy from one day to the next, mindlessly. I'm with you Chillnurse, get rid of them.

Specializes in Internal medicine/critical care/FP.

I do I feel much better. 240 bucks is a lot

Specializes in Internal medicine/critical care/FP.

Another thing I never understood. NURSING DRUG MANUALS. These things are thicker and have more elaborate over kill explanations that anything I ever used in graduate school and practice. It's just a for show thing. Just as those nursing diagnosis manuals that are 10 x as big as my pocket hospital medicine guide.

Excuse my typos just got off a 12 he shift of doing discharge summeries since it was slow.

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

It is...it is...I get frustrated at times as well. What can one do? There are so many times I just want to scream I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!!! But I realize that my energy can be used for more useful and satisfying things. ((HUGS))

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Another thing I never understood. NURSING DRUG MANUALS. These things are thicker and have more elaborate over kill explanations that anything I ever used in graduate school and practice. It's just a for show thing. Just as those nursing diagnosis manuals that are 10 x as big as my pocket hospital medicine guide.

Yeah....they are ridiculous I agree. There have been so many times I listen to other instructors explain things and I think....why are you making it so complicated when in reality it is rather simple?

Take ACLS for example. Rhythms are slow fast absent. Patients either have a pulse or they don't. They are breathing or they aren't. They are stable or they aren't. Treatment...CPR, bag them, give drugs, Shock them, cardiovert them, or code them. Then they go into the Class IIA IIIb IVC...really? They patient has either gotten better or coded by the time you run through the possibilities

Nursing diagnosis in school...CAN be a useful tool in teaching how to think like a nurse....but they get all hung up on wording and the process. Then they give assignments to do a care plan with no assessment on a fake patient....:facepalm: What are they thinking? You do use nursing diagnosis more than you realize but are they REALLY done at the bedside? No they are not exactly....sigh.

Kudos for the nurses who have made a successful business venture and sold it to the masses for profit...frankly I'm jealous...why didn't I think of that? :banghead: LOL

Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

OMG! I LOVE this thread.:roflmao:

Specializes in ER.

Unfortunately, academia has a vested interest in bloating higher degrees with a lot of nonsense. It's happening in other fields as well. Then, those most successful and dedicated to pursuing these bloated degrees are the ones who get jobs setting regulatory policies.

Often these folks lack practical experience in actual nursing. Instead they live in a world filled with research papers, statistical analysis, and academic fluff. This leads to them imposing their nonsense on bedside nurses through regulatory requirements, thus clogging the workplace and and actually impeding patient care.

Specializes in ICU.
I hope that helped you feel better.

I also remember having to learn indepth about diagnoses such as cardiac tamponade. WHENS THE LAST TIME YOU PAGED THE DOCTOR AT 3 AM "Hey I think this patient is in cardiac tamponade

If you work in Trauma or cardiac surgery you make this phone call.

Yup, that follows the line one of my instructors said years ago: "Some of you may never do this, and some of you may do this every day." :rolleyes:

Otherwise SPOT ON!! :)

Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

... and instead of respectfully disagreeing with another nurse and having a professional debate, some nurses have a tendency to resort to over-generalizations, stereotyping, and name-calling.

Fortunately, not all nurses are so closed-minded and unprofessional.

Let's all keep this conversation respectful and civilized, folks.

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