"Why do you want to be a nurse anyway? They're doctors skivvies!"
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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..!
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.
I told my gynecologist I was going to be a nurse, and she asked me "why nursing instead of going to med school?". Um, because I don't want to be a doctor?
My family asks me the same thing, most annoying is, "But you're smart enough to be a doctor." Yes, most nurses are smart enough, but we want to be nurses. Like being a nurse is a step down from being a doctor. It drives me nuts sometimes.
This is a variation on what I heard from my HS guidance counselor, when I told her of my plans to go to technical college to get my ADN...."You're not going to a 4-year school? But you're such a smart girl." I have NEVER forgotten this after all these years, or how insulted I felt at the time. Why not a "4-year school," you ask? Because I have to WORK my way through college, it'll cost a fraction to go to tech, and I come out with the same license. I didn't have the luxury of having my parents pay for college (which I was, and still am, ok with), but that doesn't make me any less "smart!"
I have a Nursing Diploma. I was hired straight into ICU, been ICU for 23 years, also do Rapid Response. The comment about fixing Dr's mistakes, especially the interns and residents, is absolutely true. When I graduated Nursing school in 1987, I was dating a young lady with a Masters degree in library science. She was staring a new job with a pay of $18,000/yr, I was starting, fresh out of school, at $25,000/ year. Let your english major have his little ego trip. Or, as the old joke goes, What did the english major say to the Nursing major? "Do you want fries that?"
Specializes in PACU,Trauma ICU,CVICU,Med-Surg,EENT.
"Why do you want to be a nurse anyway? They're doctors skivvies!"
: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..!
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.
I think you need new friends... this isn't a terribly enlightened fellow,just another blowhard (yawn)
Talk about jealousy, it is out there folks.I have an ADN in nursing, and my friend has her MSN. We grew up together, poor, but we had a great childhood. Since she has a high demand career, making big bucks, and has her MSN, she no longer wants to associate with me. I have another degree, a BA in Journalism, and my ADN.
I think we need to treat each other as equals. I treat my CNAs or the DON the same. I am no better than the next guy and they are no better than me, but some people feel differently. That is my 0.50 cents worth.
"Why do you want to be a nurse anyway? They're doctors skivvies!"
: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..!
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.
You've got to develop thicker skin than that if you are to make in nursing. Just from talking to nurses on this board I can see where the real stress comes from in nursing: it's not doctors, not the hours, workload, pay, none of that. The real stress may come in nursing for anyone is dealing with other female nurses. Some of them come across difficult and extremely critical without analyzing their own faults. But back to the issue at hand, I woudn't worry about what someone said on the skivvie thing. Sometimes people say things they think might sound funny, but ends up angering someone else.
I agree, this poster has got to develop thicker skin. Try to compartmentalize your feelings, and hold it there, because once you get on the floor,clinc, et cetera, you can get your feelings hurt on a daily basis. Don't take it personal and don't use up that much energy on something someone said . Just hang TUFF and be polite.
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cherrybreeze, ADN, RN
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This is a variation on what I heard from my HS guidance counselor, when I told her of my plans to go to technical college to get my ADN...."You're not going to a 4-year school? But you're such a smart girl."
I have NEVER forgotten this after all these years, or how insulted I felt at the time. Why not a "4-year school," you ask? Because I have to WORK my way through college, it'll cost a fraction to go to tech, and I come out with the same license. I didn't have the luxury of having my parents pay for college (which I was, and still am, ok with), but that doesn't make me any less "smart!"
Similar sentiment, same feeling...