Recycled topics (vent)

[Jedrnurse]

Does anyone else pick up on how there is a core set of topics that get recycled, e.g. "My GPA is 0.00001, can I handle nursing school?"

What subjects drive you to distraction after seeing them again and again?

(Forgive me if this post is redux- I honestly don't remember seeing it before...)

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

Any post made up of long, long, long blocks of text with no paragraph breaks, capitals, or punctuation (or just elipses every few words).

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Any post made up of long, long, long blocks of text with no paragraph breaks, capitals, or punctuation (or just elipses every few words).

Written half in textspeak

[Buyer beware, BSN]

I've noticed the repetitive topic threads.

To be honest, I didn't take it as the TC should have searched older threads. Lets face it, we're all chronically unique. We think our experiences with the same thing (NCLEX anxiety, issue with an instructor/manager/co-worker, personal past history, future plans) are different than everyone else's. So even if there are threads on the topic already, our viewpoint and experience with it is different somehow, in our minds. So, we create a new thread about the topic because..........."We golly gee, it's me, the answers will be completely different."

I do believe in "Don't take your experience to be everyone else's reality" so, I can let repeating threads slide by. While some take it to an extreme, we are unique.

The bigger issue is: Many topics repeat because nursing has not matured much in the past few generations. Oh, sure, technology has improved and we wear different uniforms but...............

Most of the stuff we say nursing needs to change or "do something about", has been there for entire generations before us. Yet we are still complaining about it. This tells me we did not accomplish our goal of addressing the issues.

In short, the topics are stagnant because nursing's growth as a profession is stagnant.

Perfect example would be the "Should a BSN be the minimum requirement for bedside care?" topic. Redundant to say the least. But why is is still coming up after so many years? Well, it's simple really: We've not achieved the status of being a profession in the eyes of the public still, we've not created a body of theory that is universal for nursing (at least not enough to justify a Bachelor's degree anyway) and we hold almost ZERO autonomy regarding policing ourselves.

We'll stop talking about whether it should be required or not when we seize our own profession back and make the decision ourselves. Until then, we'll just continue to bicker about it on chat forums and complain about how often the topic comes up.

I will make no apology for saying this: You are one smart cut-to-the-chase cookie."

I'll bet your patients have said to you, "you should have been a doctor."

[AutumnApple]

Written half in textspeak

OMG. IDK why people do that. New laws against text speak FTW B/C it's just so stupid anyway. BTW, isn't too much text speak against TOS? SMH, people have no respect anymore. My parents would take my phone away if they saw me talking like that LOL.

Anyway, TTYL BFF.

I will make no apology for saying this: You are one smart cut-to-the-chase cookie."

I'll bet your patients have said to you, "you should have been a doctor."

I got more of the "You're a great nurse" while people stared at my ass than that TBH. I didn't let it bother me, I was just like "BRB" and left the room.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

Okay now that we have recycled the recycled threads, how about some new threads...?