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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?
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.
An interesting sidenote: The term trolling comes from fishing, where you drag bait around in the water and wait to see what bites.
In my day a troll was an unctuous character one would usually find cowering under a rock. He/She would by nature be badgering and disagreeable and sometimes too often found in a hospital setting. The modern day characterization of said character leaves a lot to be desired despite their similitude of obnoxious traits.
Horseshoe, BSN, RN
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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?