Who needs a bigger pat on the back?

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Really who needs a bigger pat on the back for doing their job? Who posts more about how much they matter and makes a bigger difference? Nurses or teachers?

Specializes in critical care.

I need a pat on the back. I am amazing.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I need a pat on the back. I am amazing.

*pat ixchel on the back* YOU GO GUUUURRRRLLL!

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Specializes in critical care.
*pat ixchel on the back* YOU GO GUUUURRRRLLL!

A little to the left, if you don't mind.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
A little to the left, if you don't mind.

*moves hand to the left* You are the best nurse eva!!!!!

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Specializes in critical care.
*moves hand to the left* You are the best nurse eva!!!!!

Squeeeeee!

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
An interesting sidenote: The term trolling comes from fishing, where you drag bait around in the water and wait to see what bites.

Isn't that trawling?

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Emergency, CEN.

Googled it. Trawling is dragging a net along the bottom of the lake, etc. trolling is the bait thing. So we are both right.

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Specializes in Hospice.

I'm choking over here can someone pat me on the back real hard? No, I don't want the Heimlich, just a hard pat or two.

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Specializes in Gerontology.
I'm choking over here can someone pat me on the back real hard? No, I don't want the Heimlich, just a hard pat or two.

Whack! Whack!

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Troll

I was told on a previous thread that while trolling is not against TOS, pointing out the troll is. Sadly, even my reply of the image of Professor Quirrell was removed. Go figure.

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never seen either of them post about how hard they work. Must be that they have a Cush job unlike us nurses that work 9 12's per week.

How would you know? You a member of every engineering and professional chemist message board? Or you just basing that on how many engineers and chemists post on AN?

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I taught K-12 then adults for many years before becoming a nurse. That's a tough question to answer! I have classroom teachers and bedside nurses in mind as that's all I've experienced in teaching and nursing and they are very different in many ways but also very similar.

Both are high responsibility but low authority jobs that can be very thankless much of the time and if your heart isn't in them they can be especially brutal. Satisfaction in both depends a lot on where you work, the population you're dealing with, administration and funding.

For the record:

I have pure hatred for "What are the three best things about being a teacher? June, July and August" but it can't touch my visceral reaction to "Be nice to your nurse since we choose your catheter and IV needles." Neither are true nor amusing, in my opinion.

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