:angryfire I'm just discovering this now, as a student. I currently work in another field and no one has any experience with nurses, but they are reasonable college-educated people. So, I've just started my ADN program, have a good education behind me from when I was a few years younger, and am a pretty sharp employee (humble, too! :chuckle )
Now I hear:
It takes two years to become a nurse!? (yeah, more with pre-reqs!)
You are still in school? How long does it take to learn that stuff? (I dunno. It took you 4 years for your degree and you're always asking me for help.)
Nurses have to get degrees? (duh! and it's difficult too!)
You're so smart. Are you sure you want to go be a nurse?
So, are you learning how to take notes for doctors?
Don't you just want to hose those people down? (well, no I want to help them. Because I'm not a jerk, like you. Wait until you're 85 and incontinent.)
Regarding getting a MSN: Why wouldn't you just become a doctor? (i don't know. Why don't you become a lawyer? What? That's not your field, you say? )
Fraggle, please see my post in instructors make up words. I am sorry, but I have to agree with all the people outside the profession and the MDs. I believe most nurses do not present as educated and all the other education comments people expressed to you were correct. Generally, not the most difficult degree to obtain intellectually, it is all the incorrect rubbish that is time consuming and is churning out uneducated nursing people.
Interesting, what I get is the horror story of why I/my spouse/my child/my sister/etc. withdrew from the nursing program. I don't think this is really all that common, but I've gotten several stories from people about how everything was going swimmingly and then the student had an absolutely horrific clinical experience with a horrible patient - usually it's gross, too - -- and that's when they said "this is not for me" and quit. The latest one was that a woman in her last semester of school went to visit an elderly patient at her home (which surprizes me, do we do that in clinicals?) and found absolute filth and disgusting smelly wounds relating directly to neglect. You know...feces and cockroaches...and worse...she went directly back to school and quit that very day.
The implication being that I must not know what I'm getting into, I guess!? I disagree...I'm not thinking this will be a bed of roses or anything like TV shows. I've worked as a volunteer at the ER so I see some reality. Not all of it (of course). Why do they feel the need to share this? Maybe it's just a story to tell, and I'm making too much out of it.
All_Smiles_RN
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Speaking of sounding uneducated...