PA speaks poorly of RN's

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PA's who are they? I just heard of them within the last few years. If not mistaken, I believe there are two per state (joking). Any hoot, I had an interesting conversation with a high school friend that I have not spoken to in about a year. She is now a physician in the OR and currently working on her residency to become a surgeon. As we were catching up on current situations, she had the audacity to put a PA on the phone after I told her I was in nursing school. The PA kind of caught me off guard as I was in the midst of running errands and in and out of loud places. To be respectful I stepped out of the store to speak with this unknown person and to be able to hear her clearly. I was told that they are now phasing RN's out, so getting a BSN will soon be worthless. I chuckled as I could not believe what I was hearing. I remained calm and did not unleash the "pitbull" from its skirt. I was told that in order to get $$$$ one will have to become an NP. RN's are getting paid bedpan money for doing bed pan work. I was flabbergasted by her comments. Has anyone else heard of such a thing? Please share your thoughts and comments. If I ever have an opportunity to speak to this person again I thought about given her a piece of my mind, but then again why bother; not worth the time and energy.

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Ridiculous. That's all.

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Specializes in Pediatric/Adolescent, Med-Surg.

Yeah I wouldn't even know where to begin responding to such bs. Clearly this PA has a beef with nurse's from some reason.

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You have a pitbull in your skirt?

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There are idiots in every field, sounds like you got to talk to one.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Agree how stupid. I wouldn't give it any thought at all.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

To paraphrase a line from the movie The Guardian, Nursing as a profession has been around for over 150 years I doubt a clueless PA is going to tear it down.

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Wow. Don't let that person give you the wrong idea about PA's. Some people feel they need to qualify their jobs by attacking others. Shame on them. :mad:

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Specializes in FNP.

I don't take uninformed opinions seriously.

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I am going to have to agree with the "bedpan money" comment. Pay is definitely not equal to knowledge and work preformed, imo.

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Specializes in ER/ICU/STICU.

That makes me smile because I know more than one PA that are jealous of the money nurses make. If anything I would think PA's will be phased out by NP's because NP's can basically do a PA's job, but PA's could not do ours.

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So I'm wondering who this idiot thinks is going to be doing all the work that nurses do........who is going to be on the front lines and taking care of these patients day in and day out, 24/7? The PAs and NPs at the bedside????? REALLY????? That is hysterical!!! They would quit after the first week!! And if they think all nurses do is change bed pans let them have family in the hospital and realize how it's the nurses keeping their loved ones alive!!! That PA must be a real joy to work with!!! Likely she heard a conversation about the whole LPN vs RN or ASN vs BSN debate that we all know are out there and was too stupid to have any clue what the conversation was about. And funny thing is here in NY a PA is a 5 year BACHELORS degree and an NP is a MASTERS so that PA needs to have a reality check. Nurses are not going any where! God forbid SHE is ever a patient!!

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