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.

Ok RNsRWe! You have GOT to check out his latest! Looking for "nursing station" by a teacher!

Cripes. Mad dog in the house.

And for the record, the post I laid there was about as kind as I've been able to muster, considering the nature of my knee-jerk thoughts tonight.

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Specializes in nursing education.

"Obstinacy is the quality of firmly sticking to your own viewpoint or desires. If you’ve ever watched a persistent two-year-old who wants something she’s been denied, you’ve witnessed obstinacy at its purest."

(Courtesy of vocabulary.com)

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OK, I don't usually get involved in baiting others, but this is so much fun!

Ok RNsRWe! You have GOT to check out his latest! Looking for "nursing station" by a teacher!
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Specializes in Gerontology.

I am holding myself back from replying to the latest post. Will not engage the know it all. Will not eat my young. Goodness, I need more WINE to deal with this person!!!!

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
I am holding myself back from replying to the latest post. Will not engage the know it all. Will not eat my young. Goodness, I need more WINE to deal with this person!!!!
And the scary thing is that we have this to look forward in the nurses taking care of us when we're older. So don't get sick in your old age! It also scares me that things have changed this much since I graduated just about seven years ago. Some days I look at people my age or a little younger and feel decades older than them and all I can do is shake my head.
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"Obstinacy is the quality of firmly sticking to your own viewpoint or desires. If you’ve ever watched a persistent two-year-old who wants something she’s been denied, you’ve witnessed obstinacy at its purest."

(Courtesy of vocabulary.com)

Exactly.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
First, what my new bestest friend OC just said!Second, my entertainment of the day over in the NCLEX forum is getting really good! Now, people are not just being mean because she failed 3 times but because she has a hearing problem AND is 1/2 Black! It just gets better and better. Should we start taking bets on when it gets closed down?

This I have to see...

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I am holding myself back from replying to the latest post. Will not engage the know it all. Will not eat my young. Goodness, I need more WINE to deal with this person!!!!

Need more wine to deal with the whine.

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It also scares me that things have changed this much since I graduated just about seven years ago. Some days I look at people my age or a little younger and feel decades older than them and all I can do is shake my head.

See, that's just it: *I* am in no way even close to the nursing experience level of some of the folks on this board, I just happen to be an educated woman who has experience in some complementary jobs in my life (complementary to nursing). I am no 'crusty old bat' because I have been a nurse a very long time....LOL.....I've been a nurse SIX YEARS people! I'm a 'crusty old bat', I suppose, because I have held some significant management positions in my life PRIOR to entering nursing school. The very same experiences that worked well for me in getting through school and clinicals, and in learning my first year on the nursing front. I was old enough to be the mother of some of my classmates, so I guess in the hospital, there's the natural assumption I've got more nursing miles under my belt than I actually had.

I also think that what you've done with the years you've been on the job makes all the difference. I became a charge nurse less than a year after my first day; my NM told me that what I lacked in nursing knowledge I made up for in both common sense and management skills....I had enough brains to know what I DIDN'T know, when to yell for help, and she'd have backup for me while I got my land legs (which she did).

Anyway, point is, it's not the number of years on the job, it's the attitude and maturity level you display.

Oh, and I'm a nurse manager of an ambulatory surgery center now (we specialize in endoscopy). When patients assume I've been at it 20 years, I don't argue, I take it as a compliment :)

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Specializes in Emergency, Haematology/Oncology.

What is it with all you guys? I asked a few very simple questions about how to become an American and pass the NCLEX on page 55 and none of you has even bothered to respond to me. Where's the love, cuddles and support?. You are all being totally ingnorant, unfair haters.

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Why does this issue seem to get so much more attention in nursing than in other disciplines?

Clearly when nurses are completely dismissive of others and refuse to give them assistance/advice when needed it's far from ideal. But I get the perception that many new folks don't want to hear anything negative ever. Even if it's someone saying "hey, don't push that KCl dummy!"

I wish someone could show me another profession where the newbies whine about how unfair it all is, how the veterans are bullies and "eat their young"? Newly minted lawyers know from the get-go that as first-year associates they are the bottom of the legal ladder, and will have to work their way up while proving they know something--anything.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the way the whiny a$$ women around here complain about "bullies" is an insult to people that are actually bullied. I used to work in factory. Almost no women. I'd LOVE to see some of these whiners spend a single shift in that kind of environment.

"It takes almost no effort to say 'Good morning!' to me! There's no excuse for how rude they are!"

AND IT TAKES NO EFFORT AT ALL to go on with your life instead spending the rest of your day complaining about being bullied.

I swear, people just want to be victims. Desperately want to be victims...

suppose that means that she feels a closeness to the civil rights movement that those of us who aren't part black can't....and therefore can't understand the "oppression"?

As "half-black," shouldn't you have a parent that should have taught you that the civil rights movement was because of actual oppression, not piddly problems like this. I don't remember the story of Rosa Parks as being, "They said she had to sit at the back of the bus, so she wrote a letter to the bus company complaining about how the bus meter wouldn't take her token and then it did take her token."

Ok RNsRWe! You have GOT to check out his latest! Looking for "nursing station" by a teacher!

As anti-management as I am, anyone that can make me take a manager's side in a disagreement....

And the scary thing is that we have this to look forward in the nurses taking care of us when we're older. So don't get sick in your old age! It also scares me that things have changed this much since I graduated just about seven years ago. Some days I look at people my age or a little younger and feel decades older than them and all I can do is shake my head.

Don't worry, at least one won't be caring for us. They're going to be in management within the next few months!

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.
Need more wine to deal with the whine.
Honey, this requires pomagranate vodka, tequila or bacardi 151.

Or all of the above, an "alcoholic coma in a glass" of sorts.

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