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 psychiatry,geropsych,LTC/SNF, hospice.

Oh my. Harpy Trollop? Love it!

Might need to keep an eye out for those fomite encrusted ones though...

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See, you be in the spirit already!! you be shouting out!!

Serioulsy, has anyone noticed there are about a gazillion "I passed-(or my personal favorite)-I past the NCLEX" threads out there......

Guess what....SO DID I! Many years ago!! and now for the second part----I DON'T CARE!!!

I guess that makes me a (are you ready) Harpy Trollop!!!!!

I understand that passing the NCLEX is a big deal and I'm sure we all agree, but seeing as it is something that is expected, well...

My family and friends were excited.

As much as I enjoy AN... the folks here really do not know me... they are not family and friends.

So....

Family/friends + my success = give a darn

Strangers who have all been there and done that + my success = don't give a darn.

Oh, and I'm sure that makes me a harpy.

As for trollop... meh... I prefer "wanton hussy".

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Specializes in nursing education.

How's about one biiig long thread as long as this one, to which all those who have passst the NCLEX can add their names. Rather than starting an individual, self-praising thread? Which they somehow believe is praising God? (I prayed. I [sic] past. I past along my fomite(s) at the computerized testing center. Here is how I did it.)

Oh, and that Pearson Vue carp too.

No new threads on those topics!!

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I guess that makes me a (are you ready) Harpy Trollop!!!!!

Diva...do you give Trollop lessons?? I would a very eager student!!

Pace

PS nice to see ya back!! :kiss

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Specializes in tele, oncology.

So ever since I read Pepper the Cat's post a few pages ago last night at work, I've been singing this in my head:

"I'm too sexy for my scrubs, too sexy for my scrubs, so sexy yeah...

I'm a Snowflake, you know what I mean,

And I do my little turn in the med room,

Yeah in the med room, in the med room yeah,

I shake my little fomites in the med room."

(To be honest, not just singing it in my head...singing it out loud as well...I'm fairly certain some of my co-workers are looking into how to involuntarily commit me to our psych unit.)

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I didn't bother to read the plethora of responses, especially seeing as the last few are completely off the original topic, but I wanted to respond to the original post.

First of all, having gotten a DUI does not necessarily say anything about one's capability to be a great nurse. It may or may not imply that you have a problem outside your job that needs to be addressed before it interferes with your job, but it should not immediately disqualify you from being considered for the position. I have personally known nurses that have gotten DUI's but it has not affected their position at all. Some of them are great nurses that just made some dumb choices outside of their job, but they still come to work as prepared as any other nurse, if not more so, to give great patient care and they do their job outstandingly. Others are people with legitimate drinking problems that need outside help to deal with it, but there are programs designed to do that without sacrificing the career these individuals may actually be very good at. While it should be a red flag that needs to be looked into a little bit further, if you think a DUI makes you an irresponsible, unqualified nurse you are simply mistaken. What about all the many nurses in the feeling struggling with other psych issues? should they be automatically categorized as unqualified nurses also even though socially their problems are not viewed as negatively as drinking problems?

As for someone who says "I'm stupid, can I be a nurse?", it sounds kind of mocking and sarcastic to me and I probably wouldn't even take the question seriously and reply.

And for people who have to retake the NCLEX repeatedly, I think there should just be a point (after 2 or 3 fails) that you are required to take the nursing coures, because you are clearly not grasping something.

My problem with DUI is you are taking the chance of harming or even killing another person. I believe I posted in another thread that we had a mother who was hit by a drunk driver; the mother burned to death. The drunk driver had no injuries. I can't even think about the horror of dying that way. We've had several serious incidents with drunk drivers killing other people. That's why I feel so strongly about it.

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I understand that passing the NCLEX is a big deal and I'm sure we all agree, but seeing as it is something that is expected, well...

My family and friends were excited.

As much as I enjoy AN... the folks here really do not know me... they are not family and friends.

So....

Family/friends + my success = give a darn

Strangers who have all been there and done that + my success = don't give a darn.

Oh, and I'm sure that makes me a harpy.

As for trollop... meh... I prefer "wanton hussy".

I SOOOO want to be a wanton hussy. Sadly I just don't have the personality for it.

or.........

I see all these other people being wanton hussies and I want to be one too and it's just not fair that I can't be what I want!!!! Plz advice me!!

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So ever since I read Pepper the Cat's post a few pages ago last night at work, I've been singing this in my head:

"I'm too sexy for my scrubs, too sexy for my scrubs, so sexy yeah...

I'm a Snowflake, you know what I mean,

And I do my little turn in the med room,

Yeah in the med room, in the med room yeah,

I shake my little fomites in the med room."

(To be honest, not just singing it in my head...singing it out loud as well...I'm fairly certain some of my co-workers are looking into how to involuntarily commit me to our psych unit.)

This is genius.

I've been off AN for a week while getting my new foster kiddos settled, and I had nightmares that this thread had fizzled out. Thanks to everyone for restoring my faith!

I propose we add DREEEAMMMMM and harpy to the drinking game. Perhaps trollop too, if you really want to get schnockered.

Seriously, I love you guys, fomites and all.

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Specializes in being a Credible Source.

Here's another:

Doctor so-and-so is so hot and he's been flirting with me. I think he wants me. He's married but I think he really appreciates me and I can't stop thinking about him. Should I go for it?

Why not, I think, because all the other nurses hate me because I wear custom-tailored scrubs and I'm... well, beautiful...

Should I pursue Doctor so-and-so?

Did I mention that he and I are both so much hotter than anybody else at work?

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ahem. . .let me just neatly step over that serious post ....

I can handle fleas, visible fomites, scabies, and lice. I wouldn't even mind if a gerbil jumped out of a guy's jacket but cockroaches ohhhh no no no no no :no: Thank God for my coworkers. We had rotating phobias, as luck would have it. We were able to pinch hit to a certain extent.

Annnnd. . If we're going to use the word harpy (a great word btw) can we also use the word trollop? If we're going to fire up another "how do I keep my sexy on" thread I don't see how we can avoid it, really.

A little late to the game, but I like the word "strumpet." Has a nice old-timey ring to it.

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I guess my confusion is that you've got some posters thanking God for helping them to pass the NCLEX the first time. And you have posters thanking God for helping them pass the NCLEX the third or forth time.

Does God prefer those posters that he helped pass the NCLEX the first time?

I'm tempted to follow up on the posters to see if they got/were able to hold onto jobs.

But I don't have the energy.

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Ha ha. I think of the Amy Winehouse song... well, really it's just a description of the "bar fly" but we could change it to the demographic of nurses who fit her description... The title of the song can't be posted here probably (LOL) but we could change "pumps" to "crocs" LOL... Somebody here is a great lyricist and can make this about "those" nurses, I am sure!

...When you walk on the floor, dressed like a star, rockin your "---me crocs"....

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