The Mockery of Nursing

Neldavi · Feb 19, 2012

I just read this whole thread. Love it. I wish these idiotic things that people say were an exaggeration, but alas, I know they're not. A couple from my real life:

- ran into someone I took a pre-nursing class with (I'm in an ADN program now) and she says that she started nursing school at another area college (a BSN program) and hated it but still wants to be a nurse so "my adviser put me in the classes I need so I can be an office nurse after I graduate, something where I don't have to take care of patients." On further questioning about what she actually wants to do she says "I don't know, my adviser just set it all up."

- overheard in the gym:

Woman #1: I'm in school to be a nurse.

Woman #2: I have a friend who's a nurse and all she does is sit on the internet all day and she makes SO much money!

Woman #3: I know! It will be great.

later in the locker room, woman #1 notices my uniform and asks if I'm in nursing school. She says she wants to do a 4-year BSN program but says she wants to apply to my program. We proceeded to have a confusing, circular conversation in which it became clear that she has no idea what she has to do to become a nurse. She just wants to sit on the internet all day and get paid for it. Inset head banging into brick wall here.

workingharder · Feb 19, 2012

I just read this whole thread. Love it. I wish these idiotic things that people say were an exaggeration, but alas, I know they're not. A couple from my real life:
- ran into someone I took a pre-nursing class with (I'm in an ADN program now) and she says that she started nursing school at another area college (a BSN program) and hated it but still wants to be a nurse so "my adviser put me in the classes I need so I can be an office nurse after I graduate, something where I don't have to take care of patients." On further questioning about what she actually wants to do she says "I don't know, my adviser just set it all up."
- overheard in the gym:
Woman #1: I'm in school to be a nurse.
Woman #2: I have a friend who's a nurse and all she does is sit on the internet all day and she makes SO much money!
Woman #3: I know! It will be great.
later in the locker room, woman #1 notices my uniform and asks if I'm in nursing school. She says she wants to do a 4-year BSN program but says she wants to apply to my program. We proceeded to have a confusing, circular conversation in which it became clear that she has no idea what she has to do to become a nurse. She just wants to sit on the internet all day and get paid for it. Inset head banging into brick wall here.

Well, when reality hits them, it's going to feel like a hangover from an all night dance with Jack Daniels.

leslie :-D · Feb 19, 2012

i'd be curious to learn what type of schools accept these students.

i don't know which is scarier.

leslie

allnurses Guide · Feb 19, 2012

It is not REdiculous, it's rIdiculous.

But what if it's diculous more than once?????

allnurses Guide · Feb 19, 2012

Learn a whole bunch of stuff about something. Remember all of it. Then use deductive reasoning to solve problems. Only those who enter the Mystic Portal are allowed to know that. There you may also find the reason for "evidence-based practice" being something other than "do what works" or even (gasp!!) something as quaint as The Scientific Method ohnooooeeeees! We can't use something a scientist would use! We're nurses!!! We need to have our own nurse words for that! Those buzzphrases are really good to inject into a conversation when you want to sound professorial and the actual content of your message is vacuous nonsense.edit on second thought I'm probably all wrong on this - I welcome the flamage anyone wants to blast me with :)

Everyone is hitting a nerve by mentioning theses catch-phrases!

Do you know I was once told that the difference between a nurse and an aide... was that nurses use critical thinking and aides do not!!

WOW!!

Really?

You mean that in over 20 years, as an aide, I never had to draw from a previous knowledge base, figure it into a current situation, and decide the best course to take in order to get the best outcome?

Huh??

It was critical thinking that kept me from getting my butt beat by demented pts and it was critical thinking that told who to take care of next and who needed the nurse NOW.

And what about crossing the street? And driving the car?

Even picking an appropriate outfit ("lemme see, the last time I wore this vinyl mini skirt and cha cha heels to a job interview, I didn't get the job. I want the job, so this time I will not wear the cha cha heels").

Notice, that even with the use of critical thinking, one may still choose the wrong course of action...

But it doesn't mean you didn't use it.

"nursing process"

"evidence-based practice"

Blech!!!!

ChrissyRN74 · Feb 19, 2012

Two words that make me cringe every time I hear them:NURSING SHORTAGE!

iluvhrts · Feb 19, 2012

AdviSE and AdviCE. Did anyone have to take English 1101?

netglow, ASN, RN · Feb 19, 2012

...and when they put icing on top of that one iluvhrts:

"I need advises, please"

OCNRN63, RN · Feb 19, 2012

...and when they put icing on top of that one iluvhrts:
"I need advises, please"

No, "I need advices plz!!!"

DeLana_RN, BSN, RN · Feb 19, 2012

i'd be curious to learn what type of schools accept these students.
i don't know which is scarier.
leslie

Let me guess... for profit ones

However, I do know a local public university that has the policy of accepting (almost) anyone, and then "they have to prove themselves". Based on what I have seen, they don't always do that (don't ask me how they pass the NCLEX, but some people are just good test takers or guessers - or cheaters. Even in my nursing class I know at least one student who failed a course and was passed on anyway by "sympathatic" instructors who changed her D to a C...).

exnavygirl-RN · Feb 19, 2012

Love this thread. :lol2:

allnurses Guide · Feb 19, 2012

Everyone is hitting a nerve by mentioning theses catch-phrases!
Do you know I was once told that the difference between a nurse and an aide... was that nurses use critical thinking and aides do not!!
WOW!!
Really?
You mean that in over 20 years, as an aide, I never had to draw from a previous knowledge base, figure it into a current situation, and decide the best course to take in order to get the best outcome?
Huh??
It was critical thinking that kept me from getting my butt beat by demented pts and it was critical thinking that told who to take care of next and who needed the nurse NOW.
And what about crossing the street? And driving the car?
Even picking an appropriate outfit ("lemme see, the last time I wore this vinyl mini skirt and cha cha heels to a job interview, I didn't get the job. I want the job, so this time I will not wear the cha cha heels").
Notice, that even with the use of critical thinking, one may still choose the wrong course of action...
But it doesn't mean you didn't use it.
"nursing process"
"evidence-based practice"
Blech!!!!

Heres some feedbacks for u - i guess you werent there when they taught the difference between task-based proficiencies and the inticracies of requisite competencies....havent you ever heard of research?O. M. G :uhoh3: