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.

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And don't forget the ones that think NCLEX is an outdated method of becoming a nurse.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...

School teachers have to become certified. Many people who get their education in education (heh heh) can't teach because they can't pass the test.

And to someone else, I am one of those "civilians" on this board. However, I pretty much know when to keep my mouth shut, and I don't use this board to "get my jollies." (eewww).

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School teachers have to become certified. Many people who get their education in education (heh heh) can't teach because they can't pass the test.

And yet we hear time and again that it's "not fair" that the NCLEX keeps the ones who can't pass it from practicing as nurses. What makes it unfair? Everyone taking that test was supposed to have graduated from an accredited nursing program, thereby giving them each the same shot at passing or failing that test. If they passed, well, of course it was fair. And if not....exactly who is it that owes you something?

As I oftentimes tell my teenagers, "whoever told you that Life was fair was lying to you"!

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However, I don't get too bent about that. At least not as much as the snowflakes who took the 8-week "day spa/aromatherapy" course(s) and claim to "work in the medical field".

I'll give you one better. How about the housekeeper in the hospital I used to work in, who would proclaim herself a "medical professional" or say "I work in the medical field" whenever asked about what she does? I guess being able to go into Wal-Mart and buy scrubs to wear to work makes you a "medical professional".

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After perusing the boards, and before shutting off my computer in disgust, I decided to post this as an homage to the original point of this thread: :)

"I was so nervous and worried and I took the NCLEX and it shut off in 164 questions, has this ever happened to anyone?"

"...it shut off in 75 questions, has this ever happened to anyone??"

"...it shut off in 220 questions, has this ever happened to anyone??"

And every number you can think of in between.

Really? Do you think no one has ever been nervous, worried, and gotten the same number of test questions as you--ever?

I'd think whether you'd been posting here for years or you were a brand new member, you'd at least take two minutes to read other posts on the forum you were about to add to, and see that "has anyone had a test that stopped at " has been covered to DEATH?

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Specializes in Emergency, Haematology/Oncology.

I have something to add to the mockery. I just thought of it the other day. How's this. If you want to get ahead as a nurse, get promoted etc. you play the game, you join the project groups, follow the rules, get "groomed", prove how malleable you are to management and hey presto, you are a "clinical nurse", someone whom others should be able to ask clinical questions, obtain guidance and so on (you also get paid more). It seems that it doesn't matter if you have the knowledge or skills to back it up. I was working on a patient with one of our newly promoted clinical nurses just the other day. There was a senior medical consultant in the room and the patient needed vitamin K IV. So, said clinical nurse gets the drug, and then proceeds to swab the port on a femoral arterial line to give the medication. Our consultant says "oh no, don't use that one", he and I both assumed that said clinical nurse didn't realise that it was an arterial rather than a central line, it hadn't been labelled yet (reasonable assumption). I say, "It's not a central line, it's a femoral art line mate" as in heads up, still thinking that she just didn't realise. I am not kidding, she said "so?". I looked at my doc, he looked at me, then said to her "just don't use that one ok". I was mortified. This person has completed post graduate study in critical care and is in a respected clinical position, I honestly was so embarrassed for the nursing profession right then and I talked with the doc about this later. He rightfully wanted to know how this person was a clinical leader- I sadly, had no good reason to give him.

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Found out one of coworkers that's in school for PNP actually had a lecture in one of her classes on creating posterboard presentations. Because apparently, someone at her school thinks that a peds NP will be doing lots of science fair projects? She said there was a section on the types of adhesive to use. The pros and cons of liquid glue vs glue sticks vs rubber cement.

This one of the reasons I sort of revile my own profession. When we were doing our Magnet recertification, people were running around with their hair on fire making poster boards. What are we, adults in a health care profession or kids in an arts and crafts class?

I'm working on my BSN through an online university. Thank God they can't make us do poster boards.

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Is this supposed to go with the song "Stuck In the Middle" or the one that goes "Here I am. Rock you like a hurricane"? (Not too familiar with some of the 80s music.)

This would be "Rock you like a hurricane", but taken down a notch.

Now, related to your avatar, if one were to have a stint in the OR or ED, would it be inappropriate to start singing "I wanna hold your glands"?

Note: don't do this in L&D or OB.

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This would be "Rock you like a hurricane", but taken down a notch.

Now, related to your avatar, if one were to have a stint in the OR or ED, would it be inappropriate to start singing "I wanna hold your glands"?

Note: don't do this in L&D or OB.

Probably not in urology, either.

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Gary Jules, Mad World.

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Gary Jules, Mad World.

All I had to do was read those 4 words and it started playing in my head.

That was a fairly obscure one until they used it in the soundtrack for an episode of CSI.

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wodka is too much for me (i am a pansy).... I only drink that when i'm jobless and looking for catheter volunteers.

oooooo!!! Ooohhhh!!!! Pick me!!! Pick me!!!!

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All I had to do was read those 4 words and it started playing in my head.

That was a fairly obscure one until they used it in the soundtrack for an episode of CSI.

Gary Jules cover of this is waaayyy better than the original by Tears for Fears. Had they been smart, they would have made it like Gary Jules did. It makes you shiver. (Does me, anyway.)

They used this song on an episode of Closed Case a couple of years ago. That was the first I'd head it. Then when I went to youtube and heard the TFF version of it, I was like, "Blech."

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