"...Nurses are Doctors SKIVVIES"

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"Why do you want to be a nurse anyway? They're doctors skivvies!"

:devil::devil::devil::devil::devil::devil:

This was what a friend of mine said to me while I was at the bookstore buying some books on Nursing.

I just laughed it off there and then but it only really hit me while I was at home reading the nursing skills book I bought. It has made me so mad that I needed to come straight on here and vent!

I don't think in anyway shape or form that a nurse is a doctors skivvie. Nursing is a profession in its own just as medicine is a profession in its own right.

People [he included] obviously think nurses are hired by doctors! UGH!! I'm that mad right now I can't continue writing this..!:devil:

He's in college studying to be an English teacher..

Skivvy: a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work. It's used as a slang word sometimes in the UK and Ireland.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

Heeeyyyy...what's all this dissing of English majors?! I have a BA in English, and I'm working on my BSN!

My narrative charting will kick your narrative charting's a**!

So there! ;):clown:

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Heeeyyyy...what's all this dissing of English majors?! I have a BA in English, and I'm working on my BSN!

My narrative charting will kick your narrative charting's a**!

So there! ;):clown:

This made me laugh. Not at you, it was truly amusing to me. Please chart in poetic form at least once... :D

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If you don't like doctors, then why did you choose this field because you obviously have to interact with them in some capacity?

It's a general statement. I don't hate most doctors, just the ones we all hate. And I can interact with people I don't like in a respectful manner. It's part of being a professional adult.

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You will only become a skivvie if you allow someone to treat you like one - the answer be a professional. In my uk experience nurses often advise more junior doctors. It would pay them well to remember that sometimes as we also have the ability to make their working lives tricky. We are not inferior or superior to any other health professional. The patients all need us to be a team.

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"Why do you want to be a nurse anyway? They're doctors skivvies!"

:devil::devil::devil::devil::devil::devil:

This was what a friend of mine said to me while I was at the bookstore buying some books on Nursing.

I just laughed it off there and then but it only really hit me while I was at home reading the nursing skills book I bought. It has made me so mad that I needed to come straight on here and vent!

By all means vent- venting does make one feel better at times:).

So...did you later school your friend on what nursing is really all about?

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I told an MD ex-boyfriend (we're still good friends) that I wanted to be a nurse and he said "One good nurse is worth 10 good doctors" :D I love when doctors love nurses!

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Nurses are doctor's skivvies.. who cares? They get to work, we do our work. They get paid for services rendered, we get paid for our services. They have their scope of practices, we have ours and countless others

So what's the brouhaha? I guarantee, this wouldn't be the last time you would be hearing about this. Face facts, people are not going to think the way we are, just cos we are in the profession. Heck, I bet some nurses probably have not-so-very good thoughts about nursing- I know a few.

Does that make them bad? Nope. It just means they are entitled to their own opinions. All these unnecessary, I call it unnecessary venting, when someone, in this case your friend, makes a less-than adequate comment about nursing needs to stop.

I bet if and when we put all these venting into good constructive use and possibly have TV adverts and shows that school people on what nursing truly encompasses and not just as a profitable career, then people would have a more in-depth knowledge of the profession.

You did not get offended easily with your friend, you actually laughed it off. You had to go home, sit down, dwell on it before deciding to become offended... what does that say? If someone were to insult our kid, you would hurl and give it to them right away. But if you had to go and sit down and think about it, then it doesn't say much.

Color me bad, but this is so played. Heck I'm a skivvy...and, I ask. So what?

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Specializes in Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.

Well yeah... we do COVER THEIR BUTTS!!!

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Nurses are doctor's skivvies.. who cares? They get to work, we do our work. They get paid for services rendered, we get paid for our services. They have their scope of practices, we have ours and countless others

So what's the brouhaha? I guarantee, this wouldn't be the last time you would be hearing about this. Face facts, people are not going to think the way we are, just cos we are in the profession. Heck, I bet some nurses probably have not-so-very good thoughts about nursing- I know a few.

Does that make them bad? Nope. It just means they are entitled to their own opinions. All these unnecessary, I call it unnecessary venting, when someone, in this case your friend, makes a less-than adequate comment about nursing needs to stop.

I bet if and when we put all these venting into good constructive use and possibly have TV adverts and shows that school people on what nursing truly encompasses and not just as a profitable career, then people would have a more in-depth knowledge of the profession.

You did not get offended easily with your friend, you actually laughed it off. You had to go home, sit down, dwell on it before deciding to become offended... what does that say? If someone were to insult our kid, you would hurl and give it to them right away. But if you had to go and sit down and think about it, then it doesn't say much.

Color me bad, but this is so played. Heck I'm a skivvy...and, I ask. So what?

It is what it is.

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Specializes in Gerontology, nursing education.
The things I have to say when ppl. ask me why I didn't have the guts to go for med school & chose nursing instead:

"Behind every good doctor, is a great nurse"

"Doctors treat the disease, nurses treat the patient. I want to treat the patient"

"I'd like to graduate within 5 years!!! I don't want to be 30 at the youngest when my career gets rolling"

"Nursing school & pre-nursing is so insanely stressful already - I love myself enough to not put myself through anything worse!"

"I have no desire to take physics and calculus pre-reqs etc. like a pre-med student - I just want to learn the biology end of things and skip to the clinical stuff (in N.S.)"

I hear what you're saying, but, seriously, why should anyone have to justify his/her career choice to other people? If someone wants to be a nurse, shouldn't that be sufficient?

If somebody thinks less of anyone else for going into nursing, well, isn't their ignorance THEIR problem? Some people can be so rude and boorish, I'm not sure their comments that put someone down for going into nursing even deserve an answer.

BTW, I think it's incredibly rude for someone to even suggest that an aspiring nurse "doesn't have the guts" or the gumption or chutzpah or whatever to go into medicine instead. Again, I don't think someone who is that ignorant or insensitive even deserves an answer.

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I am 'justavolunteer', have been for several years, and it STILL amazes me how much stuff nurses need to know. I have a college degree in another field, but I think my brain would explode trying to keep track of everything that goes on during a nurse's shift. I can get confused enough as 'justavolunteer'.

People who make nasty comments about the job of nursing are simply showing their ignorance.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.
This made me laugh. Not at you, it was truly amusing to me. Please chart in poetic form at least once... :D

This is just for you, m'dear. A "dirty" limerick.

The patient's attempts were fruitless

So the doctor ordered some Colace

She sat on the loo

And then she went poo

So she got some much-needed solace.

(Forgive me for fudging the rhyme. ;) )

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