IlliniHelper

Nurses often assume an awful lot about people. Like presuming someone is coming to the ER for meds. It is not your place to judge, and you work under the Drs. license. I am 40 mind you and raised my kids first. I do have an accurate and appropriate view of lets say.......45% of nurses. I have raised three sons, I have been around drs and nurses and blood and gore and guts since 1991. Many of your were just born then. I dont need a stupid piece of expensive paper to say I am equipt to handle emergencies. I am working for a Drs office because I cant work with nurses. Obviously. I cant even post around them

This is why I cant work with a bunch of hens. You act as if no nurse, in the history of nursing is exactly as I describe. If I witnessed this then it happened. I am not jealous. I like working M-F from 8 am to 5 pm. With an hour for lunch. I also make 19.75 an hour as a medical assistant. See they way you jump all over me. Its the same day after day working with women. Why are you all such backbiters. Cant you just admit I am right, in some things and wrong in others. Berating me does no good. I dont envy your hours, the filth you encounter. All I said is BE NICE TO YOUR AIDES> you bring half the young girls to tears. There is no need. You are "professionals" right. And I am not impressed with record keeping as a legit part of the RN. All they did at the home was eat, hide in the lounge and occasionally check Facebook. Perhaps this is not the case in every place but it is the case in some. Act your age. This is my first post.

I have just finished my clinicals as a CNA, I am a PLT as well. I decided to stop for now and work as a Medical Assistant, a sort of "short cut" at my age of 40. I hold a 4.0 GPA and have 45 college credits, I can do wound care and test blood glucose, I can also bathe, feed and the hands on care that many RNs, and LVNs feel they are too good to do anymore. I can do stress tests, breathing test, strep, cultures and then take them to the lab and test them. I wipe away the tears of the elderly that cry for you and that many ignore. So if you are not one of these hellish nurses who have forgetten to check themselves at the door, please be nice. The aides are the ones who the family respects and often loves. I never plan to work as a CNA because I would have to put many haughty "nurses"in their place and would end up fired more often than not. I dont claim to be superior, because I dont view any of you as superior. It matters not in this profession how well you are loved, but how well you love and tolerate others. Many of you dont deserve the wages you reap. I am sorry, but a slip a paper doesnt warrant the exhorbinate wages you get. The ones who deserve that wage are the nurses in hosiptals. The ones in nursing homes simply do not. Sorry, you just dont. You took the easy way out. So just because some bully nurse treated you like dirt when you were a student, or you resent their youth and enthusiasm or vitality, or you resent having to teach them for 23 bucks an hour, I say...cheer up! Your never out of a job, you have made a choice to work long shifts, so dont call it sacrifice. Its work. Good old fashioned work. I waited until my kids were in Jr, and Sr. high. Its possible. Especially if your husband makes plenty of money to live off of. Please be nice, because these young women you are pushing around really dont deserve it. You are not out there wiping butts, and puke and being groped hourly by old men.