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I've always worked the third shift and sometimes when you for whatever reason can't do something right away, a patient or a relative would ask;"Were you sleeping?" "'cause I heard that that's what nurses do when they work the night shift?" That is soooo anoying!!!

That was a super top 10 things not to say. No everyone can't be a nurse. Nurses have to know pretty much the same things doctors know it seems to me from the time that I was in nursing school. It gave me new respect for some coworkers I had little respecxt for.

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Thank God I'm ugly enough not to have to deal with that.lol

I was an ICU nurse for 3 years before going to medical school, and all i can say is that both fields are very demanding. MD's - medical school is hell, the workload is impossible at times...Medical school does break you. Nursing, acuity on the units and the stress of being able to multitask, depending where you are can break you too. So i think both profession need to respect each other, and put all our prides aside. I agree with pittrn..seasoned nurses need to welcome, teach and become a mentor to the new grad nurses, knowing that this will be the new generation that will take care of you in the future. Experienced nurses do eat their young. I had my first hand experience as a new grad in the ICU and it was tough--i felt like i was being initiated--even "dumped on" as they would call it. Nursing is stressful enough already, imagine a helpless, 22 year old new grad. Overall, I think that what's lacking in medicine is good communication between doctors and nurses. If we all have good relationships with each other, and mutual respect, our patients get better faster, and less medical errors happen. So, I hope that whoever reads this will break the cycle and stay positive at work.

That #1 comment is my biggest pet peeve! I'm a nursing student and very proud of it! I am not working my a$$ off in school and clinicals because it's "easier" than medical school, or because I'm not intelligent enough to become a doctor. I'm becoming a nurse because I want to be a nurse, period. When I considered medical school or nursing school, I decided I like the philosophy and model of care of nursing more than what doctors do. Plain and simple. I respect quality physicians and their place in the healthcare team, but they are no better or worse than nurses, or any other member of the healthcare team. Our #1 focus is helping our patients! : )

I am currently in school to become a "real nurse" because I waisted my time going to school for 2 years (two months longer than an LPN) getting an associates degree(LPNs don't have) to be a crapped on, disrespected, doing the EXACT same job as an LPN, Medical Assistant. I am specially trained to work in a medical office. I am trained to work one on one with the doctors and do procedures, give shots, draw blood, wound care, ect.. The ONLY thing I can not do that an LPN can do in the office is start an IV. That is it. CMAs get paid less than LPNs, get treated worse, and pretty much have a worthless degree. I want to be respected, so I have been in school since 2002 trying to work toward another 2 year degree while working full time and raising a family. All because nobody bothered to tell me my 2 year Associates Degree as a Medical Assistant is worthless and I will be treated like crap.

I have my LPN licenses in 3 states. I have been a nurse for 25 years! LPN's are treated differently in different areas of the U.S. It was to my amazement that I could not receive report about a patient returning from a procedure because I was a LPN in the state I now live. So a new nurse R.N. of 4 months was covering for me on this day and had to take report. When she got off the phone I asked if I could have the information as I needed to pass this on in report she just stared at me and said the usual, she couldn't remember! She was overwhelmed. Yet she had 3 patients and I had 6 , with all of the doctors orders to be aware of and to carry out. Make sure Pharmacy sent the new orders and juggle the charting that this new nurse had to sign her name to. LPN's are not treated well by Rn's .
America is I believe the only country that have LPN schools. And it takes longer than 10 months. My school was 15 months, we had the same teachers and curriculum as the RN school at a local hospital. We did not get college credits for our classes but they did. We did not get college credits because I went to a state run technical school. The point to all of this is just outright frustration.
I have since returned to college have completed all of the required classes for the R.N. program and have not applied. Why one might wonder. It is hard to watch nurses from other countries get special treatment in major facilities have one or maybe two patients while I get to take care of 6 or 7 or 8 depending on the patient load. I am tired of getting report from people(nurses) that barely speaks English . I am tired of hearing we have a nursing shortage. I find it unpleasant to watch young nurses talk on their phones or speak of the latest hot male nurse they are passing around because he is good for a 3 hour work out. And I don't like watching nurses take the patients drugs.
Where is nursing going in the U.S.? Oh and just a FYI hospital and specialty hospitals get tax breaks to bring over nurses from other countries. They also pay these nurses a reduced rate up front, but a large bonus at the end of their stay. Is this fair to American Rn's or LPN's. Wake up Nurses lets focus, develop sound reasoning and stick with it, Lets do away with LPN's . Not deprive them of work over foreigners. Help us to become R.N.'s We are very knowledgeable, have years of experience and I feel we are being passed over. And for the R.N. that thinks because she sat in a class room longer than I am ...I'll remind the next new R.N. that did not get hands on experience in doing a procedure in her years of school, she needs to call her instructor. Well that is what I would like to say but won't I will just talk her through the procedure! God Bless America!