Question: Is there a thread that ONLY belongs to nurses?

I'm a nurse and I don't.

Do you want EMT's and aides excluded?

Not really. We're a free and open forum to all.

Usually only those with knowledge of a particular topic posts so it's not a problem for the most part.

I'm a nurse and I don't.

Do you want EMT's and aides excluded?

amen .. the reason why this web site is so successful is because of the many different people and occupations. i like it just the way it is... i agree with sue:yeah:

That's really my whole question, if you're a NURSE you get me...

Do you mean actual thread or a separate forum? I interpret it to mean a THREAD(i.e.TOPIC); yes, if a nurse wanted feedback ONLY FROM NURSES on a topic, then he/she could specify so. It's been done many times(i.e. "LPN wages", someone asking for feedback from RNs).

Actually I do see where your coming from---sometimes I get irritated reading a post with a nursing dilema to have a wanna be somday future nursing student chime in and pretty much slam the nurse who is having the dilema.

I think this is a great forum for exchanging ideas and offering support but I have found myself gritting my teeth and mumbeling to myself---start nursing school 1st before you start offering up critisism to lic working nurses.

You just have to skim over those posts.

I dont want to start any war between wanna be nursing students/nursing students/new nurses/sr nurses/CNAs etc etc etc....I just want to say, yes I see your point. This forum though does offer a broad spectrum of focused pages---I have noticed if you have a technical question and really want some solid exp nurse feedback then post in one of the specialty areas...I have learned a great deal from those folks.

Let me preface this by saying I truly appreciate and respect all my fellow healthcare workers and all the experience and knowledge that they bring to this site and I also value the insight that nonhealthcare workers offer with their postings. That being said I completely understand what the OP is referring to with the post. I have visited and utilized this site for several years and it just seems that the number of nonnursing posters has increased along with the "Bad nurse,mean nurse" postings. All you have to do is read a post that deals with venting,difficult patients/families,or anything that doesn't scream I Love My job and you can get a general idea of what I am talking about. I understand that nurses don't work or live in a vacuum but I do wish that sometimes there was the option of only addressing a post or discusssion to licensed healthcare workers and leave the general public out of the equation.

Just MHO; let the abuse begin.

I understand where you're both coming from, but what I don't get is why, when someone is obviously a neophyte with no experience, anyone has to engage her.

I don't find it difficult (usually) to ignore kids who don't have a clue. But then, that might be an advantage of being close to decrepitude.

:)

i think it's great that non-nurses post on an but the judgmental responses from some of the unlicensed people gets to be extremely annoying after a while. it's like you can't ever say anything negative about a patient or your working conditions w/o getting a ton of responses from the clueless about what a horrible nurse you are.

what good is it to have a forum for nurses if you can't ever vent about anything w/o having people who haven't walked in your shoes jump down your throat?

I think this is a common problem all over the boards. I post in the nurse educator forum; invariably, if a (occasionally controversial) topic of interest to educators is raised, the thread becomes populated with students who want to chime in.

Unfortunately, their contribution consists of wanting to add their (often ill-informed, occasionally irate, and invariably intrusive) view of the matter, which has the effect of stopping all dialogue by educators. We have our own students who want to “debate” with us, on just about everything, and we don’t want to do it with someone else’s students online.

Educators have ONE forum, students have at least six. If you point out that they can raise similar topics in the student side of all nurses, let’s just say the reaction is not always positive.

I have read many threads on the ED section of all nurses, and have laughed/pondered/learned from all of them, but have never posted here before today.

I think you should have a place where you can vent without the “you bad, bad nurse” comments from (brainless, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, dodo, doltish, dopy, dotterel, dull, dumb, dummy, foolish, futile, gullible, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, irrelevant, irresponsible, laughable, loser, ludicrous, meaningless, mindless, moronic, naive, nonsensical, obtuse, pointless, puerile, rash, senseless, short-sighted, simple, simple-minded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick, thickheaded, trivial, unintelligent, unthinking, witless) persons.

I’ve been a nurse for 30 years, and I think ED nurses rock. I always have, and nothing I read here has changed my mind.

Valmore, I agree with you. I love AN, but there are times that everything seems to be focused on those who are not working health care providers and/or trying to get there someday.

When the forums get too fussy and full of students and gonna-be-a-students, I have to take a break.

What bothers me the most is new threads where it is obvious that the OP did not bother to search the forums for answers before asking the SAME QUESTIONS again (usually related to schools, testing or moving or some such.) In the beginning for a while I had set responses copied to Notepad, and I just copied and pasted. Then I tried to link them to the other threads. I got tired of that, and stopped responding to those altogether.

I like to actively ignore those who fuss at us because they perceive some lack of love for our patients or jobs.

But I still come here very frequently (per DH.) I get great support and guidance from this site; thanks to everyone. :redbeathe

i, too get sick of students, wanna be students and random members of the public posting on our vent threads to tell us what mean, nasty horrible persons we are and how we should just find another career. and i get tired of new nurses posting about how horrible their preceptors are, how mean people are just following them around to make their lives miserable and about how none of their problems are their fault because everyone knows that most nurses are women and all women are mean, catty backstabbers. unfortunately, i don't get my own forum (or even my own thread!) of just folks i like to read or who actually have something worthwhile to contribute. but it is a nice fantasy, isn't it?!