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Specializes in LTC , SDC and MDS certified (3.0).

One of my favorite shows is Army wives. However I'm SO mad right now!!! One of the characters was in nursing school 20 years ago but dropped out to get married. SO she now decides she wants to fininsh her degree. ALL she has to do to complete it is to finish her clinical time. VERY Far fetched to begin with. Then her patient codes and

SHE runs the code. throwing out orders Like a major league baseball player. WHen the doctor comes in she's saved the patient and all the other staff did what she ordered.

I had to withdraw from the ADON program to have surgery (with 1 1/2 semester left) when I went to return the following year I was informed that algebra was only good for 3 years now and not four and I had to test out in 2 1/2 weeks or I couldn't return where I left off. Begged to be grandfathered but they wouldn't however I know this is only one program.

BUT I doubt Any program would someone to return where they left off 20 years later!!!! Makes our profession look like our schooling is a piece of cake!! My husband thinks my anger about this is so funny BUt I'm REALLY REALLY Steamed!!!:angryfire:down:

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moved thread to gen nursing forum per request.

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One of my favorite shows is Army wives. However I'm SO mad right now!!! One of the characters was in nursing school 20 years ago but dropped out to get married. SO she now decides she wants to fininsh her degree. ALL she has to do to complete it is to finish her clinical time. VERY Far fetched to begin with. Then her patient codes and

SHE runs the code. throwing out orders Like a major league baseball player. WHen the doctor comes in she's saved the patient and all the other staff did what she ordered.

I had to withdraw from the ADON program to have surgery (with 1 1/2 semester left) when I went to return the following year I was informed that algebra was only good for 3 years now and not four and I had to test out in 2 1/2 weeks or I couldn't return where I left off. Begged to be grandfathered but they wouldn't however I know this is only one program.

BUT I doubt Any program would someone to return where they left off 20 years later!!!! Makes our profession look like our schooling is a piece of cake!! My husband thinks my anger about this is so funny BUt I'm REALLY REALLY Steamed!!!:angryfire:down:

Welcome to the world in which the Media determine what public understanding of nursing is. It's not new; ever watch Grey's Anatomy? ER? House? How about random episodes of comedy shows, like the one in which Grace of Will & Grace had to go to her doctor's office for a shot, and is presented with Trainee Nurse Barbie? Yep, a doctor introduces some dingy teenager with a lisp as "one of our best trainees", and then she announces she's "done it lots of times on oranges". Horribly insulting.

Better get used to the idea that people will think nursing school is similar to taking a beauty course; you're learning "on the job"; that school is a good choice for high-school dropouts to learn a trade; that all you do is fluff pillows and bring juice and cookies so the doctors can actually treat the patients.

I've had patients SHOCKED to learn that I have a degree in professional nursing. That COLLEGE was required, can you believe it? They thought that I just had to work for the hospital, and they'd teach me day-to-day. Ummm...yeah.

Like I said, Welcome to Nursing! :)

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I saw that show Sunday night and was thinking kudos for recognizing nursing requires brains.

... defib scene with gown almost had me howling on the floor....

In 1980's, I ran codes like that on night shift till resident arrived as only one resident in 250+ bed facility + 1 ER physician. They were promptly shipped from telemetry back to MICU, never left on the my telemetry unit.

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I saw that show also, and had to tell my (non-nursing) friends that I did notthink nurses would run the show - but it makes for good TV - hey, it changed her husbands attitude. :)

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I saw that show Sunday night and was thinking kudos for recognizing nursing requires brains.

... defib scene with gown almost had me howling on the floor....

I was thinking the same thing with the gown. That's the first thing that comes off!

I noticed that she had med surg nursing books that she was reading but I don't know if they were textbooks or just general reading. Either way, I didn't think students ran codes.

I do like the show alot and according to my best friend who is an Army wife it is close to actual life. Husbands and wives cheating, PTSD, etc. I like that they show Roland (the psychiatrist) as a husband to a woman who is a soldier.

That Lenore is certainly one heck of a witch.

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I saw that show also, and had to tell my (non-nursing) friends that I did notthink nurses would run the show - but it makes for good TV - hey, it changed her husbands attitude. :)

*** Nurses DO run codes. Every nurse on my unit is ACLS certified and nurses on unit do run codes. We are on the code team. I have seen senior nurses run codes even when there was a resident or hospitalist in the room because the MD didn't feel comfortable doing it. Nurses run codes in the ICU when a doc isn't around. I ran a full code a couple months ago when an ICU patient coded while our trauma docs and ER doc where in the ER with a big, multiple victim trauma case. I have also run codes while doing ambulance transfer.

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Sorry I meant a student nurse running a code 20 :angryfireyears since she went into a class room.PLAAEesse

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Sorry I meant a student nurse running a code 20 :angryfireyears since she went into a class room.PLAAEesse

That's how I took it when you first posted, and it also strikes me as ridiculous.

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