I know last week there was discussion about how nurses were NOT featured in the first episode. Tonight, 10 minutes in, they've shown two nurses talking and working.
the first one addressed how people think that nurses just pass pills and bedpans. well, she talked about it briefly
second one-(or, other viewers, was it the same nurse on a different day witha different hairdo) she was caring for a drunk man. it appears she was giving a bedside report-to another nurse, maybe? they didn't say. anyways, the gentelman was saying how he had to get out of there, had a paper he had to turn in to school in 3 hours, etc. Nurse was telling him that he almost died last night, he wasn't leaving, she had already heard his sob story and she didn't care that he had something to turn in, he should have thought about that before getting so drunk.
Did anyone else who watched that think that she was seriously being rude to him? I mean, if you dont care, you dont care, no one can make you care. But she stood there and told him to his face that she didnt care about what he had to do. Yelling at him like she was his mother. What a great public impression of nurses- its like the Nurse Ratchet sterotype. Yes, it was just an edited clip of an episode, adn possibly taken out of context.....but, she did say it.
and, maybe that was a poor editing job to purposely make her look all snotty....
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This cuts both ways PatMac. You can't tell someone that you're entitled to your opinion and then get your panties in a twist when someone disagrees with you. You're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine, and my opinion has been that you have no experience in what you're forming opinions about, and that your opinions and judgments are sometimes incorrect. (But just for the record, you didn't originally state an "opinion." You stated what you thought you knew. )
So, if you're entitled to your opinion, then I'm entitled to mine, and you have no authority to prevent me from expressing it.
I'm sorry you've been repeatedly told you don't know what you're talking about and that it upsets you. I'm sorry that a blunt, matter-of-fact approach upsets you. The world isn't sugar coated.
I promise you this is my last post to you. I'm ope nto disagreement. When someone replies with matter-of-facts I respond with my opinion. People disagree everday that doesn't bother me. I did state an opinion even if
it was on "what I thought I knew". As I said everyone is entitled to opinions and everyone else is is entitled to their opinoins on peoples opinion.
The world has never sugar coated anything for me, you are a very good reminder of that fact, but the world ain't me and I try not to be like the world. I don't complain because I know somewhere out there someone has it much worse than I. I know when to stop and let what I do back up what I say and believe.
Sometimes I get that "if your feeling froggy, leap" but I realize that attitude won't get you anywhere, but dead or in jail. I can either prove you all right or wrong and thats all. What ever the end is I will just have to cope with it like a big boy. Thank you and dueces!
I think PacMac10 that you like to try and get some idea of nursing/medicine by "pushing" it with experienced folks here on Allnurses. Nobody minds answering a question or two, but you challenge those whose experiences you seek knowledge of. To debate with professionals you must have something to bring to the table. You have nothing. You will be turned away at the door.
Remember, some of these nurses (and physicians) here would have done away with you many "posts" ago if you were at hospital as a student or at hospital as new staff. You need to understand this because you jeopardize your future. When you get into the hospital and begin dealing with critically ill people, your tendency to debate with your superiors (and that means any CNA, RN, MD, Instructor, etc) will not be tolerated. This means getting kicked out of your nursing program. This means being fired or worse.
You are entering adulthood. Talk is cheap. Time to be silent and learn.
Specializes in Nursing Education, CVICU, Float Pool.
Thanks wind.
Now back to that CPR vest, can you set them to a certain number or strength of compresions if you want. How do they work I want to know becasue they are really fascinating and genuis.
PatMac10,RN, RN
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I promise you this is my last post to you. I'm ope nto disagreement. When someone replies with matter-of-facts I respond with my opinion. People disagree everday that doesn't bother me. I did state an opinion even if
it was on "what I thought I knew". As I said everyone is entitled to opinions and everyone else is is entitled to their opinoins on peoples opinion.
The world has never sugar coated anything for me, you are a very good reminder of that fact, but the world ain't me and I try not to be like the world. I don't complain because I know somewhere out there someone has it much worse than I. I know when to stop and let what I do back up what I say and believe.
Sometimes I get that "if your feeling froggy, leap" but I realize that attitude won't get you anywhere, but dead or in jail. I can either prove you all right or wrong and thats all. What ever the end is I will just have to cope with it like a big boy. Thank you and dueces!