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 School Nursing.

I cannot explain how happy I am that this thread is still alive and thriving. I am thinking for those of us too "new" to be official members of the Crusty Old Bat Society, we start a Future Crusty Old Bat Chapter. I'm mid thirties so not exactly young nor exactly old, and not enough nursing years under my belt to qualify by experience yet, but I'm getting there! Proud Future COB here, reporting for duty!

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What should I do????

Call the police?

Call his manager at his hospital and report him???

Or, should I PRAY for him?????

I just personally witnessed my neighbor, after he got home from work, GET THIS!!!!!!! in his backyard with HIS SECOND BEER walking around WITHOUT SHOES, or A SHIRT, eating a GREASY HAMBURGER WITHOUT WASHING HIS HANDS FIRST, and listening to GUNS AND ROSES!!!!!! OMG, OMG, OMG! He's a NURSE! It doesn't matter that he has the next three days off!!!!! THERE COULD STILL BE ALCOHOL IN HIS BODY, HEAVY METAL MUSIC IN HIS EARS, AND GREASE IN HIS ARTERIES WHEN HE GOES BACK TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!

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I haven't gotten a job, but here's my advice on how to get a job....

Or my all time favorite:

I'm not a nurse, but here's my advice on how to be a nurse....

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I love the post that end with "Am I the only one?"

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Just don't discourage their dreaaaaamz! Even when your nasty spouse has done so in another profession he's just mean and probably lousy at his job!

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I cannot explain how happy I am that this thread is still alive and thriving. I am thinking for those of us too "new" to be official members of the Crusty Old Bat Society, we start a Future Crusty Old Bat Chapter. I'm mid thirties so not exactly young nor exactly old, and not enough nursing years under my belt to qualify by experience yet, but I'm getting there! Proud Future COB here, reporting for duty!

Feel free to steal and modify my signature. :)

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OOh, I've got a new one to add, although this came to me live--in person! I'm on a checkout line wearing my scrubs since I just left work, with my work badge clipped to my shirt. Person behind me sees tag "RNsRWe, RN" and...

Ahh, you clearly hadn't read the thread about how revolting is the sight of scrubs in public.

But I digress.

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..."When it comes to unicorn barf and farting rainbows"...

Now every time a patient farts at me during a bath, I'm gonna wish for that rainbow.

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Well, sort of on the topic of the image of nursing, and crusty old bats vs the world: I treasure the memory of a particularly self-absorbed relative who is too special to go to work, so his wife has been the breadwinner, but he does SO much for strangers - which means, his wife does the hard parts while he grandstands - long saga of dysfunction there that I'm sooo over - anyway, I saw him one day, scowling alone, clearly brooding, and I steered clear. The next time I saw him, he was all over me about how "Nurses are supposed to be COMPASSIONATE. You saw I was in PAIN and you just walked right past me. If you ever had a problem I would be THERE for you, because that's the kind of person I am".

The man has known me most of my life. No idea why he thought I would become his emotional Sherpa all of a sudden after getting my RN. But that fact that he thought that up to that point in my life I had never had a problem was a howler.

I believe we should direct all those quoted in the OP, and those who don't want to clean poo, to this relative of mine, and they can all be compassionate all over each other, somewhere else.

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Specializes in CICU.
I just personally witnessed my neighbor, after he got home from work, GET THIS!!!!!!! in his backyard with HIS SECOND BEER walking around WITHOUT SHOES, or A SHIRT, eating a GREASY HAMBURGER WITHOUT WASHING HIS HANDS FIRST, and listening to GUNS AND ROSES!!!!!! OMG, OMG, OMG! He's a NURSE! It doesn't matter that he has the next three days off!!!!! THERE COULD STILL BE ALCOHOL IN HIS BODY, HEAVY METAL MUSIC IN HIS EARS, AND GREASE IN HIS ARTERIES WHEN HE GOES BACK TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!

Is he single? Sounds like my kind of guy!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUCSB8xZDCE

LOL, ha, ha, ha I just thought I'd give you something to drool over, Do-over? Now, wouldn't it be great if he (Myles) was the new guy on your floor???

Everybody would be in a great mood, at least for a while... :)

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From RNsRWe: "OOh, I've got a new one to add, although this came to me live--in person! I'm on a checkout line wearing my scrubs since I just left work, with my work badge clipped to my shirt. Person behind me sees tag "RNsRWe, RN" and...

Ahh, you clearly hadn't read the thread about how revolting is the sight of scrubs in public.

But I digress.

Gotta admit my confusion at first reading your post, as I recognized MY post (and my name!!) and thought it was you talking...ah well, I figured it out. Foreign microbes didn't reach my brain ;)

Yes, I posted that LOOONNNGG before the ensuing discussion of whether scrubs worn out in public were, in fact, Fomite Factories.

OOHHHH.....FOMITE FACTORIES!! YES! MY NEW LINE OF SCRUBS!!!! ROFL.....

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