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.
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
Actually, Some chick in one of my undergrad classes pulled up a picture of the tampon in lemonade. It was some sort of picmonic I guess. Give me a few hours and I'll write a double blind peer reviewed 15 page article over the benefit of picmonics also. Let me pull out my monocle.
I am also glad somebody finally realized I don't put a bunch of time into my posts. I am glad you guys do. Keep it coming lol.
OK, but only because you said lol rather than lulz. :-D
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
That scares the crap out of me. Do NP programs not require any bedside critical care experience?
It truly is frightening to think that someone with no bedside critical care experience and a blatently bad attitude toward nursing, older nurses and presumably anyone with advanced degrees is a critical care NP.
It truly is frightening to think that someone with no bedside critical care experience and a blatently bad attitude toward nursing, older nurses and presumably anyone with advanced degrees is a critical care NP.
People like this, though, underestimate the power of "old hags". This supposed 25 yr old critical care NP will find out. For all we know, though, he is merely an internet mischief maker.
Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
As a student, I actually like care plans. They make you think of the client in a holistic view rather than he's on a ventilator what can I do for that. The care plans make you think of spiritual disturbances or at risk for things like if you have a patient who is unstable, altered mental status, urinary incontinence, along with IV lines, anyone can think of fixing the mental status alteration and the urinary incontinence, but the care plans make you think further into it. Like the patient is at risk for falling. To a seasoned nurse this may seem like a "no-Duh" type of thing, but to a baby nursling who has yet to step foot into a hospital, its a new discovery. I see the point the OP makes, because some nursing professor make it too complicated. However, I see the true value in them and how they will help nurslings like myself grasp a better holistic view on the patients! :)
I guess I don't see why you need nursing diagnosis to think about these things. To me, they just come intuitively. I don't need a circumlocutory NANDA dx. to figure out how to care for a patient. They made no sense to me as a student, and nearly 30 years later, they still don't.
Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
It truly is frightening to think that someone with no bedside critical care experience and a blatently bad attitude toward nursing, older nurses and presumably anyone with advanced degrees is a critical care NP.
And then people wonder why I refuse to see nurse practitioners for my care.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
And then people wonder why I refuse to see nurse practitioners for my care.
There was a time when I preferred to see nurse practitioners for my care. They were well-educated, experienced and took the time to listen to you. Now that experience isn't required, they may have an education, but they're missing a big piece of the whole. I refuse to see them anymore.
Specializes in Med-Surg, Ortho, Subacute, Homecare, LTC.
I think you're all just being trolled. He literally has changed his icon from a vain "selfie" to one of those "troll face" drawings. Methinks he is pleased with the outcome of his trolliness.
I have an awesome Nurse Practitioner. She is someone I previously worked with, she has extensive nursing experience prior to her becoming an ARNP, she is open to various holistic outlooks and LISTENS! I'm so grateful. She also has a great patient portal where I can communicate and also view my labs! She is truly a gem.
Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
There was a time when I preferred to see nurse practitioners for my care. They were well-educated, experienced and took the time to listen to you. Now that experience isn't required, they may have an education, but they're missing a big piece of the whole. I refuse to see them anymore.
Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
This is news to you? Most NPs program barely have any requirements aside from your RN and maybe the GRE. A day out of nursing school most programs will accept you as long as you have your bachelors.
A bachelors isn't required for NP and lots of programs accept ADN RNs into their NP programs.
Wow can you guys not tell that this OP has put very little time into his posts and has succeeded in eliting an 82 comment response? I actually partially agree with him, much of nursing is fluff, but the context of how he/she states it is somewhat too harsh. I also find humor in the people who have gotten angry with him/her and thrown attacks out at him/her, obviously he/she does not care, and you are more than likely just fueling the fire and inspiring future trolliness. Lol suckers.
I just joined and Don't like to comment but I could not resist this. LOl!
This is news to you? Most NPs program barely have any requirements aside from your RN and maybe the GRE. A day out of nursing school most programs will accept you as long as you have your bachelors.
I've seen many Acute Care NP programs requiring at least one year of acute care nursing experience, as well as Neonatal NP programs requiring 1-2 years of neonatal nursing experience. In contrast, most FNP programs don't require any RN experience.
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OK, but only because you said lol rather than lulz. :-D