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.

The adventures of Ruby Bee and Woof. Battling Super Pre-Nurse and her compassionate minions. By being MEAN. :) This has the making of a great little tv show. :)

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Wanda Sykes could play Wooh. I love me some Wanda! She's funny and sarcastic. Heather Locklear could play Ruby Bee.

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Au contraire...I love the "old bat" moniker, and am proud to wear it.

Seasoned just sounds like you have been peppered by a patient or something fun like that.

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Wanda Sykes could play Wooh. I love me some Wanda! She's funny and sarcastic. Heather Locklear could play Ruby Bee.

OMG!!! You are my BEST FRIEND FOREVER NOW!!!!!!! I luuuuvvvv Wanda Sykes!!! :)

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*sigh* Oh for the day when I become a crusty old bat...

urz learning frum de best, oh, grassoper.

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Specializes in Managed Care, Onc/Neph, Home Health.
Seasoned just sounds like you have been peppered by a patient or something fun like that.

Hey Hey Hey.....wait a minute now....dusting off my hands....um an "old bat" myself....I was just trying to identify with pre-nurse, with the "seasoned". I felt she was making "old bat" out to be mean and "evilllllllll.....ahhhhhhhhh hahahahahah" Yeah I know I am not sprinkled with "Old Bay" hehe

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urz learning frum de best, oh, grassoper.

What is this grasshoppah that you speak of? heh heh

OMG!!! You are my BEST FRIEND FOREVER NOW!!!!!!! I luuuuvvvv Wanda Sykes!!! :)

Me too, she is too much! And...*fist pump* I has a friend now.:redpinkhe

(I'm allowed to fist-pump because I'm a pre-crusty-newbie-bat-student-thingy.)

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OOh, I've got a new one to add, although this came to me live--in person! I'm on a checkout line wearing my scrubs since I just left work, with my work badge clipped to my shirt. Person behind me sees tag "RNsRWe, RN" and tells me she's always wanted to be a nurse, and she's considering doing it, but only if she can get into the closest RN program because there's no WAY she could be an LPN. You see, she's got a bad back, bad shoulder, lousy hip and something screwy with her feet, and since RNs just have to do paperwork and "oversee" the LPNs and aides who do the actual physical work with the patients, she'd be pretty good at that.

And there I am, jaw dropped, until I recover enough to tell her that she'd never get through the physical work of the nursing school clinical rotations, forget about what it'd take to get a nursing job, and then she'd actually HAVE to do physical work with patients. No way around that. I turn back to the cashier, as I'm next.

Dingbat Wannabe Nurse then wraps it all up in a pretty package for me: "Well, I could just go into management, then". ROFLMAO!!! Yep, Sweetie, let me know how that all works out for you....directly from first day of school to Nurse Manager!

I just smiled, wished her the BEST of luck, and bought my cold cuts.

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Hi, I graduated with a 6.0 GPA from my Accelerated BSN program while juggling 4 kids, a husband and a monkey, was inducted into Sigma Beta Alpha Beta Alpha Metta World Peace, passed my NCLEX with 75 questions in 6 minutes while battling a crippling case of the flu and food poisoning with only 2 days of studying and....

*insert unrelated question here*

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Hi, I graduated with a 6.0 GPA from my accelerated BSN program while juggling 4 kids, a husband and a monkey, was inducted into Sigma Beta Alpha Beta Alpha Metta World Peace, passed my NCLEX with 75 questions in 6 minutes while battling a crippling case of the flu and food poisoning with only 2 days of studying and....

*insert unrelated question here*

..you forgot, the career change, from working with NASA to nursing... due to not being challenged enough for the last 15yrs. (my favorite)

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Belittling a selective group of people - pre-nursing students, nursing students, new nurses -- is what folks consider having fun??

Riveting.

Here is a quarter- now go forth and purchase thyself a sense of humor please.

This thread is NOT bashing pre-nursing students, nursing students, or people who just got their first nursing job. It is to address the often ignorant, silly, and most of all--- REPETATIVE things that get posted here. There were several entries in this thread talking about "Seasoned" nurses. And the biggest chuckle most of us were having? We were waiting for "THE ONE!" You know, the ONE who has no clue about who we are, what we do, or what we are responsible for, jumping up and down while yelling about all of us big MEANIES! Carrying on in a huff about how we aren't acting responsible or compassionate. Posting about how you will NEVER be like we are , a bunch of nasty, unprofessional meanie nurses. Please go back to page 1, and re-read all of the posts while keeping all that I've said in mind.

Ya know that old, immature joke, where one person turns to another, and mumbles "A sphincter says what?" I think I just heard the "What?"

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You forgot. The 4 kids cannot be "normal" children. They must have some sort of horrific issue(s) that being the mother of such children elevates one to saintly status.

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