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[NeoPediRN]

I am seeing SO many repeat threads here, so I thought I'd throw in a few words of wisdom.

Question: Is nursing for me?

Answer: No one can answer that but you. As with every job out there, nursing has its pros and cons. To answer concisely, if poop, puke, pee, catheters, blood, ostomy spillage, gaping oozing wounds down to the bone, or pus make you squeamish then the answer is no, nursing is probably not for you. Anything else you're just going have to work out in your head, heart, and your own state laws. We don't know you or your history, and i think I can safely say no one here can read souls to find out your true destiny.

Question: Should I move on from XYZ job?

Answer: No one can answer that but you. If you've given it enough thought to post about it on a nursing forum, you're probably ready to move on. If you're burnt out, exhausted, overworked, underpaid, underbenefitted, your nurse/patient ratio sucks, your managers suck, your coworkers suck, your commute sucks, or any combination of the above, then yes, you're probably ready for a new job. Be forewarned though, you sometimes go from the frying pan to the fire. No matter what field or hospital you move to, you're probably going to find at least one of the above things suck. If they all suck, run, don't walk.

Question: I have XYZ medical problem, advice please?

Answer: The answer is we have no advice. NO MEDICAL ADVICE CAN BE GIVEN HERE. EVER. NO MATTER HOW NICELY YOU ASK OR HOW STRANGE YOUR PROBLEM IS!

Question: What is a day in the life of a nurse like?

Answer: Shadow one in a position you're interested in. Every nursing job is vastly different, even from facility to facility. The only truly good way to experience a day in the life of a nurse is to witness it firsthand. Don't forget your rollerskates.

Question: Can you help me with XYZ nursing assignment?

Answer: Only if it's something you can't look up yourself, like an interview. Being on this forum is usually a way to decompress for nurses, and the last thing we want to do after an 8-12-16-20:uhoh3: hour shift is relive the glory days of nursing school by doing homework.

Question: What should I wear for an interview?

Answer: If we really need to answer this then you may need to go back to either Nursing101 or your professional role transition course. Also, just because it's usually the next question to follow, yes, send the damn thank you card.

Question: Why is XYZ nursing job superior to XYZ nursing job?

Answer: No job is superior to any other job. Nursing is comprised of many different fields, all with its own unique set of challenges, whether it's high nurse/patient ratios or vast amounts of paperwork. Anyone who think their field is harder than someone else's is usually playing the "mine is bigger than yours' game.

Question: What is the difference between an LPN/LVN/RN/NP/PA/MD/DO/PHD/BLAH BLAH BLAH? Followed by, which one should I become?

Answer: Do a search and stop asking this question. Only you can decide what profession is right for you, and you're on a nursing forum so take a wild guess what the majority of the answers are going to be?

Question: Is XYZ out of my scope of practice:

Answer: Check your facility and state policies. Every place is different. What one facility encourages may be completely prohibited by another.

Question: Is it okay that I never get a lunch, don't get paid for my overtime, work short-staffed to a dangerous capacity every shift, my manager treats me like crap, or that I get written up for arbitrary things because my hospital is in the process of converting to a hotel?

Answer: No. See question/answer #2.

Question: Does a new grad belong in the ED/ICU/PACU/OTHER CRITICAL CARE AREA, or is it better to start out in med-surg first?

Answer: You might as well ask if the chicken or the egg came first. It's six to one, half a dozen to the other. You're never going to get a uniform answer on this so just make the choice you feel is best for you and your career.

Question: What's your IQ?

Answer: Really?!

[Hospice Nurse LPN, BSN, RN]

I'm not a nurse (yet), but I know enough to know that everyone in this thread is the kind of person I never want to work with. You old, bitter hags just love to eat your young, don't you? You drive us newbies out of the profession so that we don't have a chance at the exciting, glamorous jobs that your generation has always just had handed to you. When I become a nurse, I'm not going to be anything like you. I am going to be perfect.

BTW: I found numerous spelling and grammar errors in this thread. How do you expect nursing to be a respected field if you can't even properly compose a post on a bulletin board?

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You may be on to something! Are you pretty and skinny? We all know that fat people dont make good nurses.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

when i graduate, i'm going to be the best nurse that there ever was! i'm going to rock the er/or/icu/wherever. but i don't want to work with women because all women (except me, of course) are catty, backstabbing witches and i don't want to have to deal with them. they will all hate me because i'm so incredibly beautiful. i want to work in an all male workplace. that way i'll have all the attention i deserve because i'm so cheerful, smart, nice and did i mention gorgeous? all i want is to marry a doctor and then i won't ever have to clean up poop anymore. but if all the nurses i work with are males, i can probably charm them into cleaning up the poop for me.

by the way, my preceptor hates me. why do nurses have to eat their young?

[honeykrown, MSN, NP]

oh, my! i remember that thread, yet even now i am astonished at how many supposedly educated people agreed with the op that she was being targeted because she was beautiful!

i believe most people did not finish reading the post because i was agreeing with her and feeling for the her at first and was about to skip the whole post (as it was too long) before i noticed that comment about her being beautiful and all. i was like yeah right you just wanted people on your side before you dropped the bombshell of your beauty

[Hospice Nurse LPN, BSN, RN]

and then there's the ever popular colorfilled post:

hello all you wonderful nurses!!!!!

i am in my last semester of ns. i managed 2 screw up this semester and failed two classes....i almost passed, but the darned teachers wouldn't give me the couple of points i needed:crying2: . i still very much want to be a nurse, i have 2 right a letter requesting to stay in the program. does anyone have any ideas, or suggestions on what i need or should say? there is nothing i want more than to be a nurse!!!!!!

please help me!!!!! i have much $ out in student loans. do u think it would b ok 2 use the same letter i used when i was kicked out of the bsn program????

maybe i should get my gf 2 right the letter for me. she's really good with words and stuff.:heartbeat and she's really smart 2! she passed ns on her first try!!!!!

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

Or in the Canadian forum this:

"The nursing boards are very unfair. Not everyone is good at multiple choice. I don't see why we aren't allowed to take the RN exam 25 times (they allow you 3 attempts). I know I would be an excellent nurse, even though I barely got through my program, and I can't pass a basic exam. All you nurses who say otherwise have no compassion! Shame on you! You must be a lousy nurse who doesn't care about your patients!"

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

Wow. My eyes hurt from trying to read that multicoloured post above. What is wrong with people?!

[agldragonRN]

this thread is so much fun. i love all the sarcasm. :rotfl:

kudos to all that posted!!! :yelclap:

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

along the same lines, i cannot believe i missed this thread!

https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/fired-but-asked-453870.html

but you were mentioned on the second page! hahahaha.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

but you were mentioned on the second page! hahahaha.

exactly! i would have had so much fun with this thread!

[Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN]

Loved this, Neo!

But you forgot the post about being several years out of high school (21 yo and up) and wanting to know "am I too old to obtain a nursing degree. ;>)

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

i don't know what's wrong with all of you mean ppl. ppl rite here to get advices, they dont need you nasty backstabers making fun at them. i'm still in school, butt i no i never want to be as meen as u!

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

This is a great thread :) Hilarious! I read through many of the posts again last night just for a laugh. The sad part....the sarcasm is based on actual posts.