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Anonymous wrote:doctor - ppl think i'm RICH.

Another doctor here - drives me crazy!!! We are not all orthopedic surgeons!

I am one of them, and I am not rich.

come on nurse poster---stop making nursing seem like rocket science. It's anything but.

I went to nursing school after getting a biology undergrad degree and was BORED OUT OF MY MIND with nursing. Following doctor's orders day in and day out and not making ANY of my own decisions outside of maybe tritrating medication drips was mind numbing. Sure, I liked the patient education part of things (and would sit with patients and their families for hours) and I agree I was the "eyes and the ears" of the physician and saved many a young physician's ass but ultimately you could have trained a robot to do my job. I lasted 4 years as an inpatient nurse--and yes, I was at Hopkins--in the MICU, CCU and the ER.
The most frustrating part of nursing to me was that I received about 1/10th of the education of the physicians I worked with. I had a really desire to understand what was happening and all I had been given in nursing school was a very superficial understanding. I LONGED to take a medical school level class. My husband is a physician and his understanding of the human body was (and is) light years above mine. I took a graduate level nursing anatomy class as Hopkins and it was more of the same. Crappy survey without any real depth.

After about 8 years total in nursing I left, got a law degree and now actually feel challenged at work. It's not for everyone but I love the opportunity to think and write and use my brain.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:doctor - ppl think i'm RICH.

Another doctor here - drives me crazy!!! We are not all orthopedic surgeons!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


I call BS. I never knew a law librarian, paralegal or legal secretary who wouldn't have wanted a JD if he or she could. What would be the point? I also don't think people with great grades and MCATs decide to be nurses instead of doctors for the reasons you outline.

I know a couple of lawyers who hated practicing law so much that they took jobs as paralegals or law librarians. And a bunch who left the field altogether.


Yup, I'm a law librarian. When I worked in a federal agency, FIVE attorneys over the years asked me how they could get my job.. Have to laugh about that...

Anonymous wrote:When I tell people where I work, they always say they've heard it's wonderful, and they used to know somebody who worked here once, and how hard it is to get in here. They're so wrong, management drives us like slaves and pays us much less than we're worth, presumably because our organization has a reputation for being so "wonderful." I've been talking with other employers and will probably be leaving in March....

I wish I could say where I work. As it is, it just looks like I'm venting. I guess I am.

Anonymous wrote:come on nurse poster---stop making nursing seem like rocket science. It's anything but.

I went to nursing school after getting a biology undergrad degree and was BORED OUT OF MY MIND with nursing. Following doctor's orders day in and day out and not making ANY of my own decisions outside of maybe tritrating medication drips was mind numbing. Sure, I liked the patient education part of things (and would sit with patients and their families for hours) and I agree I was the "eyes and the ears" of the physician and saved many a young physician's ass but ultimately you could have trained a robot to do my job. I lasted 4 years as an inpatient nurse--and yes, I was at Hopkins--in the MICU, CCU and the ER.
The most frustrating part of nursing to me was that I received about 1/10th of the education of the physicians I worked with. I had a really desire to understand what was happening and all I had been given in nursing school was a very superficial understanding. I LONGED to take a medical school level class. My husband is a physician and his understanding of the human body was (and is) light years above mine. I took a graduate level nursing anatomy class as Hopkins and it was more of the same. Crappy survey without any real depth.

After about 8 years total in nursing I left, got a law degree and now actually feel challenged at work. It's not for everyone but I love the opportunity to think and write and use my brain.

Anonymous wrote:come on nurse poster---stop making nursing seem like rocket science. It's anything but.

I went to nursing school after getting a biology undergrad degree and was BORED OUT OF MY MIND with nursing. Following doctor's orders day in and day out and not making ANY of my own decisions outside of maybe tritrating medication drips was mind numbing. Sure, I liked the patient education part of things (and would sit with patients and their families for hours) and I agree I was the "eyes and the ears" of the physician and saved many a young physician's ass but ultimately you could have trained a robot to do my job. I lasted 4 years as an inpatient nurse--and yes, I was at Hopkins--in the MICU, CCU and the ER.
The most frustrating part of nursing to me was that I received about 1/10th of the education of the physicians I worked with. I had a really desire to understand what was happening and all I had been given in nursin

Anonymous wrote:Nurse---people tend to think a) not smart enough to be a doctor and b) sleeping with the doctors. Infuriating (and not true!).

Anonymous wrote:come on nurse poster---stop making nursing seem like rocket science. It's anything but.

I went to nursing school after getting a biology undergrad degree and was BORED OUT OF MY MIND with nursing. Following doctor's orders day in and day out and not making ANY of my own decisions outside of maybe tritrating medication drips was mind numbing. Sure, I liked the patient education part of things (and would sit with patients and their families for hours) and I agree I was the "eyes and the ears" of the physician and saved many a young physician's ass but ultimately you could have trained a robot to do my job. I lasted 4 years as an inpatient nurse--and yes, I was at Hopkins--in the MICU, CCU and the ER.
The most frustrating part of nursing to me was that I received about 1/10th of the education of the physicians I worked with. I had a really desire to understand what was happening and all I had been given in nursing school was a very superficial understanding. I LONGED to take a medical school level class. My husband is a physician and his understanding of the human body was (and is) light years above mine. I took a graduate level nursing anatomy class as Hopkins and it was more of the same. Crappy survey without any real depth.

After about 8 years total in nursing I left, got a law degree and now actually feel challenged at work. It's not for everyone but I love the opportunity to think and write and use my brain.