Want to be a nurse, just no butt wiping or other yucky stuff please

[Emergent]

Just a heads up to inquiring people who read this site. Nursing involves butt wiping, blood, snot, urine, etc. An RN by your name doesn't mean others deal with yucky realities of patient care.

Also, you will likely have to pay your dues job wise. You probably won't waltz into your dream job straight out of school. And, whatever job you get, you WILL work your rear end off.

[ixchel]

Can I suction it?

Please do. Just don't let me see it or smell it or basically know it exists at all.

[Farawyn]

Please do. Just don't let me see it or smell it or basically know it exists at all.

Stealth suctioning belongs in the Hunger Games thread, but for you, I'll do my best.

[MrChicagoRN, RN]

I have a 1.2 GPA and flunked the HESI 6 times. I realllllllly want to be a nurse, it is my dreeeeeam. But I will only settle for Duke and they won't accept me. I don't know why, could someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thats because you're either too pretty...and they're all like in awe & jealous of you....or, you're not pretty enough.

[IVRUS, BSN, RN]

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Exactly Annie...

Give me blood anytime, any where. In our jobs, blood is a good thing!

[Momma1RN, MSN, RN, APRN]

This thread is great. We have quite a few nurses on our floor that will spend 10 minutes searching for a CNA to get a patient on a bedpan, instead of doing it themselves in 2 minutes. We had an entire class in our BSN program dedicated to delegation and learning the scopes of practice of other specialties. And I also had quite a few people in the program "in it for the money" and who expected they'd never have to be at the bedside.

I work 7-7 and a few months ago we were really short CNAs and actually had too many nurses. I volunteered to work as an aide from 3-7. I had CNAs come up to me and thank me for over a week for volunteering to help them out "because not many nurses would have done that". It was humbling but I shouldn't have been so surprised because not many nurses would have. Sad.

[Red Kryptonite]

We have quite a few nurses on our floor that will spend 10 minutes searching for a CNA to get a patient on a bedpan, instead of doing it themselves in 2 minutes.

Trust me, we hate those nurses.

If you can't find me for ten minutes it means I'm busy caring for your patients. Seriously, putting them ON the bedpan or commode isn't even the gross part. Put them on it and then tell me you did, if you must, but don't leave that poor person trying to hold it, or have an accident in the bed! Then you've humiliated your patient and you can trust I'll be cursing your name throughout that bed bath and linen change, which you also won't help with.....

[Nathifalr26, LPN]

Thank you! The amount of complaints I use to hear about this during nursing school killed me! Get real, it's part of the job! Welcome to Nursing and all the yucky stuff that comes with it! Cheers for the truth!

[NOADLS]

We have quite a few nurses on our floor that will spend 10 minutes searching for a CNA to get a patient on a bedpan, instead of doing it themselves in 2 minutes.

But it is so much more gratifying once you've tracked down that CNA!

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Ah.......who won the bet on this one?

[ixchel]

Ah.......who won the bet on this one?

I think it's time to create an official AN game: whoever guesses closest to what post number noadls will pop in wins the internet for a day.

[NOADLS]

And whoever misses the first post of mine in the thread and counts my second one as my first has to do some "butt wiping or other yucky stuff" on their next shift.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

And whoever misses the first post of mine in the thread and counts my second one as my first has to do some "butt wiping or other yucky stuff" on their next shift.

Nah, it'd just get tuned out, LOL...but seriously, what IS it that you do? I mean, in your REAL job? If you have one...?