The Mockery of Nursing

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Just a bit ago the top three threads involved:

1.I have a DWI. Can I be a nurse?

2.I am stupid. Can I be a nurse?

3.If it takes me five times to pass NCLEX, Can I be nurse.

Not much left to add. Says it all.

Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

I can't pin those caps into my hair, so I need specially made caps attached to the appropriately styled hair wig.

I can't wait to be the first ohsooooooooo fashionable nurse in my department! My dreeammm is to outshine all those nubile little pretty young fomite-chewed newbies on the floor. They're making me look bad with all their brand new book learning and saying my old tried and true crusty old bat habits are out of date.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

We had a woman show up in triage at the crack of dawn, holding her brown paper bag. Said she woke up with a bat chewing on her lip. Had the lac to prove it.

So, she gets taken to back, leaving behind the bag. Day nurse comes in, nearly sits on the bag, which then begins to move. You got it, the bag held a live bat, which turned out to be rabid.

Never trust those brown paper bags!:uhoh21:

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Oh dear. I thought I would stop in and say hi, but I am over my head with the turn in convo. I'll just continue to snort ever so quietly into my glass.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

This is what I learned this evening apparently the fact that NCLEX should not stop one from becoming a nurse in the US....as per someone that has failed 4 times already. Hmmm I thought that the purpose of the NCLEX was to prove that you meet the minimum competences to qualify as a nurse. I think Canada has the right idea three times and you are out...give up your ddddrrrreeeaaaammmm or go back to school.

I've been reading this thread too long. Found the first ticks of the season on my dogs this AM and called them little formite factories.

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Look like? AGH my eyes! I just got an incredibly clear visual.

And yeah, I was surprised that people were actually taking that seriously, and trying to console the OP about the experience.

I have a rule: Never reply to posts from "civilians."

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This is what I learned this evening apparently the fact that NCLEX should not stop one from becoming a nurse in the US....as per someone that has failed 4 times already. Hmmm I thought that the purpose of the NCLEX was to prove that you meet the minimum competences to qualify as a nurse. I think Canada has the right idea three times and you are out...give up your ddddrrrreeeaaaammmm or go back to school.

I've been reading this thread too long. Found the first ticks of the season on my dogs this AM and called them little formite factories.

So...wait. Let me get this straight. Someone has failed NCLEX 4 times, but believes she should still be a nurse.

Okie dokie smokey.

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I've been reading this thread too long. Found the first ticks of the season on my dogs this AM and called them little formite factories.

I've got one for ya: I was wiping down bp cuffs with disinfectant wipes and as I turned/wiped each one I actually thought to myself "going Fomite Free around here, yes indeedy..."

Sigh. And as I caught myself thinking "don't want this to be a fomite" I THEN thought "I gotta get a new hobby" LOL...

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So...wait. Let me get this straight. Someone has failed NCLEX 4 times, but believes she should still be a nurse.

Okie dokie smokey.

Oh, my yes. I don't know which post Beachy is referring to, but I've seen failures of four, five, six times, but don't worry: they're still plugging away, studying and praying. They'll make it, you betcha.

And don't forget the ones that think NCLEX is an outdated method of becoming a nurse. After all, licensure should be granted once you've passed nursing school. Guess the idea that MDs pass boards, JDs pass the bar...nah, our special snowflakes don' need no stinkin' tests...

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
So...wait. Let me get this straight. Someone has failed NCLEX 4 times, but believes she should still be a nurse.Okie dokie smokey.
Yes they just took test #5 this week and feel that the NCLEX should not bE standing in their way of becoming a nurse....replying to someone who has taken the test "multiple" times and has seemingly failed again as per the PVT.
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Yes they just took test #5 this week and feel that the NCLEX should not bE standing in their way of becoming a nurse....replying to someone who has taken the test "multiple" times and has seemingly failed again as per the PVT.

This is where I tend to think "you've been praying for how long to pass this test, and yet you cannot do it....does it not occur to you that your prayers have been answered repeatedly--and the answer was I Don't Think So!"

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Hair stylists, barbers...all need to pass boards.

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Yes they just took test #5 this week and feel that the NCLEX should not bE standing in their way of becoming a nurse....replying to someone who has taken the test "multiple" times and has seemingly failed again as per the PVT.

This post is useless without links.

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