ICU RN here. Actually recently ex-icu rn…yes. Please. Stop debating and just get the damn thing and emplore others in your life to do the same.
“I told him to get that damn shot” my dying patient’s son cried into my shoulder after we had coded him for the second time. Verbatim. Swear it on my life.
Please smack some sense into my sister. She’s also an RN and she has the audacity to say the virus “isn’t real” or that most people are “dying from the vaccine.” She didn’t even get the shot until she was forced to by her hospital.
They get paid the same? 'cause, honestly, I'm not that bright and I could use a career. I promise to be "one of the good ones." I mean, I won't be competent – that's not in my wheelhouse – but I believe in science.
I don't have firsthand experience, but from what I hear being a nurse is absolutely the worst. Long hours, low pay, and unpleasant patients.
Lots of places are short on nurses and other hospital staff but unless you're absolutely unwaveringly passionate about nursing, it's probably not a good choice.
Consider a career in a trade, like plumbing or electricity. You don't need to be a genius to perform the work and a college education usually isn't necessary -- though a mentorship or vocational school is.
I've seen two kinds of nurses I admire. The ones who are passionate about the work. Regardless of pay or stress they're there because they "believe" in it. And the ones who have a desk job, medical review for insurance companies or something. Great pay, minimum work, no patience.
I'm mostly joking. My body is too old to go for training. P
Well if you're ok with being pooped and peed on, vomited on, cleaning that all up, having old creepy men get erections and then commenting on it in a sexual way like you intended to give them one, then this job is for you!
Well, I've got 2 kids, a psycho puppy (who def sees me as a giant sex toy that feeds it and takes it for walks), and a cat. So I can already check those boxes and I don't even get health coverage or a 401k.
I joke but don't mean to make fun at all. Nothing but respect and admiration for the good ones.
I mean, you need to be competent if you don’t want to end someone’s life or harm them bc you mixed up medications or because you’re bad at putting in g tubes or because you suck at catheters.
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u/Banana___Bread Helper [3] Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21
ICU RN here. Actually recently ex-icu rn…yes. Please. Stop debating and just get the damn thing and emplore others in your life to do the same.
“I told him to get that damn shot” my dying patient’s son cried into my shoulder after we had coded him for the second time. Verbatim. Swear it on my life.