The Mockery of Nursing

[Old.Timer]

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.

[mazy]

Nah, it's get the Two Years In ICU + add water = instant doctor without going to medical school, duh.

I thought that was the formula if you want to marry a doctor.

[RanieRN, MSN, RN]

Aw, don't run away so fast. I'm now the uber-b**ch because I "dare" to tell someone that no, I DON'T think she should keep trying, enough is enough. Was only a matter of time, right?

The combination of poor grammar, high sense of entitlement, and plain old delusions (really? failed 5 times yet it's not your fault?) is just mind boggling.

Not that I'm anywhere close to perfect, but geez. Here's hoping I never need hospitalization lest I get one of those special snowflakes assigned to me.

[dirtyhippiegirl, BSN, RN]

I thought that was the formula if you want to marry a doctor.

No, that's pinpricks in the condom.

But don't marry a med student. Or a resident.

/my mom, she went through two doctors!

[vanburbian]

Yeah, but I work nights too. And days. And mids. I am a dreaded VARIABLE RN.

And I don't think it's freakin fair, cuz I have been a nurse for 23 years. Just cuz I just started in ER last year, I should have whatever shift I want, you know, cuz I worked for 23 years already.

I'm gonna finish my bottle of Electric Reindeer rose today.

[Altra, BSN, RN]

The mockery continues, unabated ... that's all I can say.

Wine or scotch ... wine or scotch ...? I'll let you know ...

[dirtyhippiegirl, BSN, RN]

Yeah, but I work nights too. And days. And mids. I am a dreaded VARIABLE RN.

And I don't think it's freakin fair, cuz I have been a nurse for 23 years. Just cuz I just started in ER last year, I should have whatever shift I want, you know, cuz I worked for 23 years already.

I'm gonna finish my bottle of Electric Reindeer rose today.

My dad's done rotating shifts as an ER doc for about 20 years. I definitely couldn't do that. So props.

But my dad was giving me **** the other night because the docs are salaried, so have to stay over for possibly an hour or two per shift and the nurses are paid hourly. I finally had to drop the ol "Dad, you make more in one year that I'll see in five years even with my 'new grad, obligatory one to two hours of overtime per shift' pay."

/also, waiting for him to die

//not really

///his life insurance could pay off our mortgage 'tho...

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Crap...are you telling me that my reply to rnbeauty was a wasted effort at reality confrontation because that poster was writing tongue in cheek? I wish I would have read this whole thread before I replied, darn it.....

I missed your answer, as the sandbox was 'sanitized' recently. Some of my better stuff got deleted. Ah well. Guess pointing out how difficult it is to read through so many misspellings and such is considered 'personal attacks'.

Still don't know who the "beauty" is.....I swear, if that's a legitimate poster, it was a post I should have printed out and framed. It covered every aspect of every problem we've ever had with, well, anyone! Priceless, so I figured it HAD to be a joke. Lord, I hope so.....

[Merlyn]

Yeah, but I work nights too. And days. And mids. I am a dreaded VARIABLE RN.

And I don't think it's freakin fair, cuz I have been a nurse for 23 years. Just cuz I just started in ER last year, I should have whatever shift I want, you know, cuz I worked for 23 years already.

I'm gonna finish my bottle of Electric Reindeer rose today.

I'm gonna slit my wrist and come to your hospital, I wanna met you cuz you sound like a really nice broad. The girl in my picha is a really nice broad. It's Linda Blair. I kept her head on straight. From your picha you look small. I like small broads.

Very sorry, for the above post, Miss. But I haven't been feeling well lately ever since Skippy The Wonder Chicken died.

[dirtyhippiegirl, BSN, RN]

^Hon, I thought I told you to lay off the weed...a couple weeks ago.

[vanburbian]

We can help your chicken. I'll get the bovie out and fry him right up.

[Woodenpug, BSN]

probably a different catheter insertion thread, but part of a serious reply reads:

"...

wanted me to see that not every woman is built the same and to think outside the "box" if i wasn't successful the first time."

or was that an intentional pun?

[Nurse Leigh]

ooops! like an idiot watching (no looking for) a train wreck, i searched out the catheter thread (really?) and wandered over the the nclex forum (again) *sigh*.

i would like to point out, as has been done by many others, the aim of nursing school these past few years (at least when i was there, and presently, it seems) is to train student to pass the nclex. so it stands to reason that if you are unable (multiple times) to do the very thing for which nursing school has prepared you, this may be a bad sign. whoops. now i guess i'll be called mean, too.

ok, i do tend to by cynical and call it like i see it. but we encounter many scenarios as nurses where sugar coating things is actually detrimental to the situation at hand. now i will also say in my defense that i try to come up with solutions (how to improve things at work and ideas to help educate pts and such) and approach some people (pts, their loved ones etc) with kid gloves and explain things truthfully but tactfully and gently.

all right, if flames are to be thrown, i've got my protective armor on, so begin!