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.

Hah, years ago our Staffing Office used to be down in the tunnels and it backed onto the morgue.

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Specializes in MCH,NICU,NNsy,Educ,Village Nursing.

How can anyone over the age of 40 (30 maybe) be a nurse at the bedside. They move too slow, can't lift patients without help, and expect me to stay off my cellphone at the nurse's station when I'm not in a patient room. I mean, if I'm not in a patient's room or charting, isn't the time I'm at the desk MY time? Sheesh....and really, they think that just because they've worked at XYZ unit for a gazillion years, they should have first dibs on the favorite holidays to be off. I mean, I need to go see Uncle Gus and Aunt Selma this Christmas and I was told that I'm on duty. Really?

And, this one:

My teacher wants to fail me just because I tried to flush the IV line with tap water before I spiked the bag. I did what she told me to and just because I'm smarter than her---this IS my second career after all---she gave me a clinical failure!!!! I just don't understand....

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Specializes in Gerontology.
My teacher wants to fail me just because I tried to flush the IV line with tap water before I spiked the bag. I did what she told me to and just because I'm smarter than her---this IS my second career after all---she gave me a clinical failure!!!! I just don't understand....

Don't forget - how dare someone 20 years younger than me try and order me around simply because she has been a nurse longer than me!

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Specializes in nursing education.
"can i join the crusty old bat society??!!! pleaseeeee>> its my dreaaammmmmmmmmmm:)"

sure you can. just copy and paste the siggy line in your siggy preferences and you're all set. but you have to be able to be a cranky ol' gal sometimes. and attend the double-secret meetings in the hall tunnels under the hospital, next door to the morgue. bring your metal tubex and the key to the locked leathers.:p

aha. i kept wondering if i could join the crusty old bat society. now i know: since i am old enough to have used the metal tubex- and still have one!- i can join. wahoo!

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

My teacher wants to fail me just because I tried to flush the IV line with tap water before I spiked the bag. I did what she told me to and just because I'm smarter than her---this IS my second career after all---she gave me a clinical failure!!!! I just don't understand....

Please tell me this isn't real. And if it is, where's the link? I've gotta see this one to believe it!

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
this crusty wears her cap and full whites every shift i work during nurses week. have the best behaved patients on the unit then

actually haven't updaed that. it's now 25 years and i have the gray hair(artfully covered up with blonde dye of course)and the attitude to prove it.

all haill to those of us who actually wore a nursing cap!!!!!!

and yes, it's a cap not a hat!!!!

to both of these . . :bow: "nurse hat" [color=#2f4f4f]♒[color=#2f4f4f]shudder♒

i still have mine - i don't like it much (the silhouette in my avatar shows how it sort of perched on top of our heads although i do think it's cool that i wore the traditional garb at one time.

as far as i'm concerned the rule should be "crusty old bats of all ages" - (sort of a take-off of professor marvel in the wizard of oz "children of all ages" :))

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Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.
What scares me even more is the number of posters who pat the poster on the head and say "There, there, you can still be a nurse." I'm a convicted axe murderer. Can I still be a nurse?

But there is, like, a difference between being an axe murderer and shoplifting. Although - if the OP wasn't trolling which I think s/he was - getting caught shoplifting a few months before applying to nursing school is quite a bit different then "hey, I did something really dumb when I was a teenager and it's coming back to haunt me five-ten years later." Y'KNOW???

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Specializes in MPCU.

I was a serial killer when I was underage, in my state, for serious offenses, you have to appeal.... Should I wait until I can have my juvenile records sealed? That was X numbers of years ago, and I haven't been caught....I mean, done that since. Can I have my dream?

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Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.

^ I was going to make a Dexter reference until I realized that I can't because I've never actually seen the show. :(

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Specializes in MPCU.
^ I was going to make a Dexter reference until I realized that I can't because I've never actually seen the show. :(

Wow, you should give us your advise on Dexter. Unless, you do not have what it takes to be in a leadership position.

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Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.
Wow, you should give us your advise on Dexter. Unless, you do not have what it takes to be in a leadership position.

I'm a BSN educated nurse with a little over three months of working hospital experience. Of course I have what it takes to be in a leadership position!!! *** are you, a lowly ADN?

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I'm a BSN educated nurse with a little over three months of working hospital experience. Of course I have what it takes to be in a leadership position!!! *** are you, a lowly ADN?

And you've never seen the show, I'd say you are overqualified!

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