Are nurses white collar or blue collar?

[Anonymous]

I went to a highly ranked 4 year college and got my BSN. I had to take Organic Chemistry, Microbiology, Pathophysiology, A&P, Pharmocology along with Humanities, and nursing classes like OB/Gyn, Med-Surg and clinicals. It was a very demanding 4 years. I think nurses do not get the respect they deserve.

[Anonymous]

I have a nursing degree from Penn.

[Anonymous]

I'm a 2nd career RN getting BSN (BA in a different subject). This is what I've told my DH is the problem with nursing. The lack of respect. The nurses I've met are some of the most driven, hard working, well read (yes!) people I know. Many go on to teach or become NPs. some simply LOVE the bedside. Instead of wondering which collar they are, pray that the ones who love bedside are caring for you. I myself do not like bedside and hope to venture to education/mgmt. but truly they are scary smart. Fools don't pass the Boards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm Jewish and it seems Jewish nurses are very rare. Lots of Jewish women are teachers and social workers, but not nurses. I think it has a blue collar "stigma" in our community.

I work with many orthodox Jewish RNs (skirts/wigs). They are dedicated beyond belief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm Jewish and it seems Jewish nurses are very rare. Lots of Jewish women are teachers and social workers, but not nurses. I think it has a blue collar "stigma" in our community.

I work with many orthodox Jewish RNs (skirts/wigs). They are dedicated beyond belief.

Maybe this is a more recent phenomenon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm Jewish and it seems Jewish nurses are very rare. Lots of Jewish women are teachers and social workers, but not nurses. I think it has a blue collar "stigma" in our community.

I'm Jewish too and in my family several women in my mom's and grandmothers' generation were/are nurses. No one in my generation though (I'm in my 30s).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm Jewish and it seems Jewish nurses are very rare. Lots of Jewish women are teachers and social workers, but not nurses. I think it has a blue collar "stigma" in our community.

I'm Jewish too and in my family several women in my mom's and grandmothers' generation were/are nurses. No one in my generation though (I'm in my 30s).

It was notable enough for the Forward to write about it.

http://forward.com/culture/158833/where-have-all-the-nurses-gone/

[Anonymous]

Nurse Jackie seems pretty prole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm Jewish and it seems Jewish nurses are very rare. Lots of Jewish women are teachers and social workers, but not nurses. I think it has a blue collar "stigma" in our community.

I work with many orthodox Jewish RNs (skirts/wigs). They are dedicated beyond belief.

Same, one of my classmates (many years ago) was an Orthodox Jewish woman.
I've also worked with many Mennonite nurses, they are incredibly hard working.

[Anonymous]

RNs are to physicians what lab technicians are to scientists.

[Anonymous]

LPN blue collar, RN white collar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RNs are to physicians what lab technicians are to scientists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LPN blue collar, RN white collar

The Penn poster got me thinking...I think the "problem" (not that it's really a problem but) is that an RN encompasses a very widddeee range of education levels. You can have an RN that has an associate degree from Bob's Trade School, or an RN that has their bachelor's from Penn or Columbia. I mean granted they're not probably not doing the same job (I don't know much about the nursing field) but it's not like say, a lawyer, where every lawyer has the exact same amount of education, or say, an investment banker, where you can be reasonably certain that they have a strong educational "pedigree" or are otherwise brilliant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LPN blue collar, RN white collar

The Penn poster got me thinking...I think the "problem" (not that it's really a problem but) is that an RN encompasses a very widddeee range of education levels. You can have an RN that has an associate degree from Bob's Trade School, or an RN that has their bachelor's from Penn or Columbia. I mean granted they're not probably not doing the same job (I don't know much about the nursing field) but it's not like say, a lawyer, where every lawyer has the exact same amount of education, or say, an investment banker, where you can be reasonably certain that they have a strong educational "pedigree" or are otherwise brilliant.

Doctors can graduate from Harvard or Middle Tennessee State U. A lawyer could graduate from Yale or from Bob Jones U and pass the same bar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LPN blue collar, RN white collar

The Penn poster got me thinking...I think the "problem" (not that it's really a problem but) is that an RN encompasses a very widddeee range of education levels. You can have an RN that has an associate degree from Bob's Trade School, or an RN that has their bachelor's from Penn or Columbia. I mean granted they're not probably not doing the same job (I don't know much about the nursing field) but it's not like say, a lawyer, where every lawyer has the exact same amount of education, or say, an investment banker, where you can be reasonably certain that they have a strong educational "pedigree" or are otherwise brilliant.

Doctors can graduate from Harvard or Middle Tennessee State U. A lawyer could graduate from Yale or from Bob Jones U and pass the same bar.

True, but all doctors have to complete the same (number-wise) four years of undergrad, four years of medical school, however many years for their specialty, residency, etc...