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.

not to worry, mom. those of us who work in teaching hospitals know it's a part of our job to educate the baby docs. we take it seriously. the only residents who get "eaten alive" are the ones who don't listen. (when the experienced nurse asks you "are you sure you really want to do that, doctor?" only the most uneducable are sure they really want to do that. the rest stop and listen.) or the ones who tell us their first name is "doctor."

oh, believe me, i'm well aware: i could have written your post myself, verbatim! he knows only too well, when i'd come home after the july influx of baby docs would arrive. he knew that it was likely a couple of them (when asked their names, because they weren't forthcoming) would say "dr. xx". and he knew that their desire to impress just landed them a few rungs further down on my respect ladder than they expected.

and he also knew that there was at least one of them that i had taken aside, to gently say "you want to be a great doc? get called on interesting cases but not get called for a colace at two a.m.? listen, and learn." :)

i remember a very proud moment when one of those baby docs became chief resident, and was overheard telling his little cluster of newbies "see that nurse? make her your friend, and fast"! lol....very proud moment :)

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Ugh, why'd you bring up July? It's April. It's too soon to think about the horror that is July!!

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Specializes in nursing education.
Ugh, why'd you bring up July? It's April. It's too soon to think about the horror that is July!!

Horror? Did you mean the heat, or the fresh baby docs that need eatin'? Forget new nurses. FRESH NEW DOCS nom nom

Just kidding. I love working with the residents!!

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It is Hell in July. My ancestors were in this country during the Revolution. But they were Tories.

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Horror? Did you mean the heat, or the fresh baby docs that need eatin'? Forget new nurses. FRESH NEW DOCS nom nom

Just kidding. I love working with the residents!!

Actually, that's a pretty combustible mix; new nurses and new docs. You really have to be on your toes for a while.

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Actually, that's a pretty combustible mix; new nurses and new docs. You really have to be on your toes for a while.

If you rub them together you get fire, or Baby Docs.

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Specializes in nursing education.
If you rub them together you get fire, or Baby Docs.

If you rub new nurses and new docs together, you get some kind of babies, that's for sure.

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.

Okay, have just posted a "crusty" response to a question. Awaiting to hear how wrong I am in 3. 2. 1.

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Okay, have just posted a "crusty" response to a question. Awaiting to hear how wrong I am in 3. 2. 1.

Ooh, ooh! Where? Where?

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

Never mind. I had an idea where it was, and i found it. ;)

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Specializes in Gerontology.

That is going to be an interesting thread. She really isn't getting that she made a huge error in judgement does she? I expect a " nurse eating their young comment" any minute now!

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What do you know, you're just a cat putting in her two cents on a mocking thread...

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