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.

I for one am going to tell you this is no where close to my DREEEEAAAAMMMMM job. My dream job would be sitting on a beach, sipping frozen Pina Colada in year-round 68* sunny weather with the occasional thunderstorm thrown in. (With Cabana boys at my beck and call.)

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
yes, i've always wondered... if nurses eat their young (read dumb) then how do any nurses become seasoned? and why aren't they eating the seasoned ones?? i think the seasoned ones would taste better to the old biters :hrnsmlys:

(sorry about the smiley but it was the only one with food lol!)

eta: ok, this is why they eat their dumb -- there is no food in that smiley hahahaha can't believe i did that!

seasoned nurses are too tough and too spicey for some to eat.

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Specializes in nursing education.
You're being so mean. You should be supportive of them

If you're taking a driver's license test and you crash the car every time you take the driving part of the exam, do you get unlimited chances, or at some point do you have to go for remedial education?

At some point, you are encouraged to ride the bus.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
it depends. are you old? are you mean? do you not give a flying tofu about people's dreeeammms? do you lack compassion? do people regularly say, "i hope you never are my nurse!!"?

most importantly, do you post in comic sans? (i think that will be the thing that forever keeps me out of the society.)

i am old, mean and lack compassion. i post in comic sans. is that all it takes to be fired from being someone's nurse? how come i didn't figure that out years ago?

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
do you also throw up a little in your mouth when posters state they have failed their prereqs multiple times as well as taking the nclex 5 times (and haven't passed yet) and are encouraged to keep trying because you have endless chances?

i can honestly say i don't throw up in my mouth. but i do shake my head and roll my eyes, and sometimes i even bang my head against the wall. please pass the tylenol!

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

"It's my dream to be a nurse, even tho I can't pass chemistry, pre-algebra, and the mean teacher flunked me because I didn't come to class. Help me live my dream!"

Honey, I dream, too. I dream of coworkers that know that a pH of 6.8 is not compatible with life for any longish period of time, coworkers that can do a basic drug calc at 3 am when we're all fighting to keep their patient alive, and the next shift showing up on time.

We're both doomed to disappointment.

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" 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:"

"nurses who suck their young? "

don't do that! my estring expires in a week.:bugeyes::D:lol2:

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Specializes in Oncology/hematology.
Nurses who suck their young?

O_O

I now have a VERY disturbing picture in my head that I wish I didn't. Thank you very much. Oh, and the one in my head wouldn't be picked up even by HBO! ;)

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MY EYES! MY EYES! :eek:

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oh no, this thread hasn't died already has it? I've been LMAO through all 53 pages :D

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Specializes in nursing education.

My new favorite:

"I'm going to start an inflammatory thread on AN. Then I am going to disagree with everyone who disagrees with me. I am going to clearly misunderstand every single post that everyone else writes. And I am going to call all the rest of you stupid for calling me out on my incorrect assumptions. I can do this because I am an APN."

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
My new favorite:

"I'm going to start an inflammatory thread on AN. Then I am going to disagree with everyone who disagrees with me. I am going to clearly misunderstand every single post that everyone else writes. And I am going to call all the rest of you stupid for calling me out on my incorrect assumptions. I can do this because I am an APN."

Good one!

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