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.

Specializes in ICU.
u r a mean old biter nurseAgain

Biter nurse? That sounds painful. I've had patients try to bite me but never another nurse. Sheesh...

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
Biter nurse? That sounds painful. I've had patients try to bite me but never another nurse. Sheesh...

lolz, u made me laf out lod.

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Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.
Was there a shortage in the 80s? I got my first nursing job in 1985, and it was in the specialty I wanted. IIRC, I don't think I even applied anywhere else. There weren't any sign-on bonuses around here back then, but there were jobs.

I don't know! I can't remember if it was on here or somewhere else but I was ******** about lack of jobs and someone lectured me on how there was a nursing job shortage in the 80s but eventually things turned around.

AICU - I'll take the flushes. But only if *you* use them to irrigate my husband's ears. Uggghhh.

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Specializes in ICU.

Ewwwz...know way! Ears r on my list of things I never EVER touch. Everything above the neck or below the chin is off limits. U can still have the flushez tho.

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.
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!!!!
Evidence based practice would have led you to wear the Ef-me pumps...... Not the cha cha heels, obviously.
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There ARE jobs out there if you aren't so picky. All the NGs who whine are just not willing to "get in" on the ground floor and actually work your way up. After that, it's up to you to get noticed. I, myself am an opportunist and have no doubt that I will get the very next RN job.

...I am proud of my job as part of the hospital's "green initiative" ...I am getting good at sorting out which briefs are just a little soiled so they can be repackaged here, at my job down in the 2nd sub basement of the hospital ...I'm keeping up my critical thinking skills and I don't have the kind of stress that the upper floors have ...it's quiet down here too!!!

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Specializes in ICU.

Well, I got rite in to the ICU. I'm just 2 good looking and skinny. O and i have a bsn so i'll b running the unit in a week or too. i just wanna get off orientation first cuz u no...my preceptors r jealous and mean.

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

Please help me chose between these two jobs...

Job 1- They pay you in skittles, they work you 16 hours a day 4 days a week, they threaten to sell your children for slave labor if you don't agree to OT, they are 2 miles from my house, offer full benefits, at large teaching hospital with tons of advancement opportunities.

Job 2- Great hours, great pay, great co-workers, they offer tuition reimbursement, except its 20 miles from my house.

Which would you pick?

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Specializes in ICU.

sk[color=#ffff00]i[color=#00ff00]ttle[color=#ffff00]s[color=#00ff00]!

always (and i do mean always) side with skittles.

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Please help me chose between these two jobs...

Job 1- They pay you in skittles, they work you 16 hours a day 4 days a week, they threaten to sell your children for slave labor if you don't agree to OT, they are 2 miles from my house, offer full benefits, at large teaching hospital with tons of advancement opportunities.

Job 2- Great hours, great pay, great co-workers, they offer tuition reimbursement, except its 20 miles from my house.

Which would you pick?

That's a toughy too be sure. What flavor Skittles?

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I would only take the job if it was original skittles, not that nasty tropical stuff.

Okay, I'll go back to lurking and snorting.

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Specializes in ICU.

Maybe push for a raise with the first job. Tell them no dice unless they throw in some Mountain Dew. Okay, a lot of Mountain Dew.)

Don't worry. You don't have to thank me, it's my incredibly valuable critical thinking skills that helped me figure this one out. Also, please note how willing I was to solve your predicament (unlike some of the other nurses here). :D

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