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.

My 13 year old, Twilight-obsessed daughter overheard me telling the boyfriend about "biter nurses" and had a fantastic idea!

This could be the basis for a new medical show -- Think cross between Nurse Jackie and TrueBlood :D

Okay, who's got suggestions for what to call it? :idea:

Nurse Fang? :)

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I remember never again seeing at least 10 of the faces I remembered seeing in our orientation to nursing school. It was on this day we paid for and gave samples to RNs from the local hospital who came to do our drug testing. They had to have done all the prereqs and entrance examinations **** and didn't figure on the drug test I guess.

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Specializes in ICU.

Sorry, this whole conversation reminds me of SCRUBS and Dr. Acula :rotfl:.

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I remember never again seeing at least 10 of the faces I remembered seeing in our orientation to nursing school. It was on this day we paid for and gave samples to RNs from the local hospital who came to do our drug testing. They had to have done all the prereqs and entrance examinations **** and didn't figure on the drug test I guess.

Well, there's always a special kind of stupid out there to keep us all employed.

I remember my NM a coupla years ago telling me how frustrated she was because the last two or three PCTs they'd hired couldn't get through the drug testing. I'm thinkin' they know exactly why they're going to this 'special place' for their physical and they're told there's a drug test and they still can't pass it...how the heck did they convince our NM to HIRE them??

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I would like to go to into nursing. HOWEVER, I do not like taking tests. Can someone please post a list of colleges that do not require you take a test.

Thank you.

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I would like to go to into nursing. HOWEVER, I do not like taking tests. Can someone please post a list of colleges that do not require you take a test.

Thank you.

Okay, that one really did make me laugh out loud!

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I don't have any good examples but someone should make one with the token "moral crusader" student/nurse who takes it upon themselves to get on coworkers/patients cases.

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OMG. OMG. OMG. Today I resigned from my job.

The nurses at this job have no eithics, no MORALS at all. All I did was to remind them all of the 5 rights of medication administration as part of my Magnet project. I had us all sit in the break room and make our own bead lanyards with cute little lettered beads spelling out the 5 rights.

WELL!!!! Those mean moral-less nurses all copped attitudes and refused to hold their lanyards to their hearts and proudly recite the rights out loud before passing each and every medication. This is important people! It's Magnet. You have to do what I tell you to do. It's my project!!!!!

Then they accused me of being a PETA! Like, don't those people kill animals? Well I'm not a PETA, I have a cat!

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

I'll never forgot the only "help me now!!!!!" post from a DON/nurse educator in a panic. It was a weekend afternoon as I recall. Turns out she either forgot/didn't know she was supposed to make a poster to go along with her presentation at a Career fair. All the younger nurses had made them (cute shapes made with catheter tubing etc). I almost laughed until I realized she was serious and this was apparently a big deal.

A few of us pitched some ideas at her along the lines of craft time at day camp - while feeling the disgust level rising with every minute . . . . there's funny absurd and there's anger-provoking absurd. This was the latter in spades. . .

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I'll never forgot the only "help me now!!!!!" post from a DON/nurse educator in a panic. It was a weekend afternoon as I recall. Turns out she either forgot/didn't know she was supposed to make a poster to go along with her presentation at a Career fair. All the younger nurses had made them (cute shapes made with catheter tubing etc). I almost laughed until I realized she was serious and this was apparently a big deal.

A few of us pitched some ideas at her along the lines of craft time at day camp - while feeling the disgust level rising with every minute . . . . there's funny absurd and there's anger-provoking absurd. This was the latter in spades. . .

You ever wonder if Doctors discuss this kind of stuff while sitting in the Doctors' lounge? "I've got to make a macaroni and glitter poster presentation on colonoscopy for the AMA, next week."

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Specializes in MPCU.
You ever wonder if Doctors discuss this kind of stuff while sitting in the Doctors' lounge? "I've got to make a macaroni and glitter poster presentation on colonoscopy for the AMA, next week."

Nope, MD's do not believe that they are victims. Seldom do they do silly projects because some administrator or lawyer says that it's meaningful. Kudos to medicine.

I think the thing that distinguishes nurses from the other health care professionals is our victim mentality. That preceptor/ clinical instructor/ male nurse/ educated nurse/...etc... has such an advantage...I do hope someone understands.

Or the converse, you are not in a union because you like being a lacky for management. ie., you are a victim cuz you do not join with me.

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I'll never forgot the only "help me now!!!!!" post from a DON/nurse educator in a panic. It was a weekend afternoon as I recall. Turns out she either forgot/didn't know she was supposed to make a poster to go along with her presentation at a Career fair. All the younger nurses had made them (cute shapes made with catheter tubing etc). I almost laughed until I realized she was serious and this was apparently a big deal.

A few of us pitched some ideas at her along the lines of craft time at day camp - while feeling the disgust level rising with every minute . . . . there's funny absurd and there's anger-provoking absurd. This was the latter in spades. . .

Your post brought my mind back to nursing school when we were required to make care maps using colored pencils and encouraged to make it "pretty". I had a brief twinge in my abdomen at that. A warning perhaps?

Most of us were well past the legal drinking age and the whole thing seemed demeaning. This was a "profession" we were embarking on, not a third grade field trip.

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