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Quote from oddiduro:

Nurses aides do that. I make a good deal more than 25/hr. I am hourly, and overtime is almost unavoidable. Something else about being a male nurse. Women get sick, they have periods, their kids get sick. Recently, I worked 27 out of 30 days. Time and a half after 8 hours a day and after 40 hours a week.

it's a waste of a life. no chance for creativity or original thought..

you do what the docs tell you to do.. give that pill, take this BP, etc

your just an over paid lackey.. congrats

anybody can become an RN with half a brain :D
 
Quote from killthesunshine:

it's a waste of a life. no chance for creativity or original thought..

you do what the docs tell you to do.. give that pill, take this BP, etc

your just an over paid lackey.. congrats

anybody can become an RN with half a brain :D

Well, apparently you don't know many nurses.:)

I would venture to say that I have considerably more freedom than most in coporate america. And better paid.:) :)
 
Quote from killthesunshine:

it's a waste of a life. no chance for creativity or original thought..

you do what the docs tell you to do.. give that pill, take this BP, etc

your just an over paid lackey.. congrats

anybody can become an RN with half a brain :D

And nurses aides take the bloodpressures, and give the baths, and almost anything else you think nurses do from watching too much TV.
 
Quote from oddiduro:

Well, apparently you don't know many nurses.:)

I would venture to say that I have considerably more freedom than most in coporate america. And better paid.:) :)

more freedom than 'corporate america' (whatever that is) to do what?

(aren't hosiptals or doc PC's corporate america?)

what decision do you make without ANY overseeing?

how many patients have you seen and diagnosed w/o seeing the doc first

take today for instance? or yesterday? or last week?

how about in last month what have you done w/o checking first with a superior?
 
I put a couple of relatives through nursing school ... best investment I ever made.

Speaking of freedom ... from what I understand nurses just never get fired, because they are in such short supply. So they have duties, and they are accountable ... but doctors are so overworked they really give the nurses autonomy ... just my 2.
 
Quote from BlueHorseshoe:

I put a couple of relatives through nursing school ... best investment I ever made.

Speaking of freedom ... from what I understand nurses just never get fired, because they are in such short supply. So they have duties, and they are accountable ... but doctors are so overworked they really give the nurses autonomy ... just my 2.

i have no doubt of the present job security but it's just a boring azz job for 12 hr shifts.
 
Quote from stock_trad3r:

It seems like the concensus is engineering. I still stick by english because there are over 6 billion people in the world. How many of them can write well? Few few, even among the educated and middle class. In non western cicultures mathematics and physics seems to come easy, because it's mosty plug and chug as oppsed to writing which requires creativity. I took advanced math and that's what it was most of the time. Just memorize some formulas and then the profs grade the tests on a curve so you can 60% of the problems right and still get a B. Good writing requires much more finesse and skill.

I am never taking one of your posts seriously again. Math is not plug and chug as soon as you leave the basic calc framework. If you have a decent prof, you won't have it plug and chug in math either.

I have an engineering undergrad degree and a grad degree in math. I know pain, sir. I can assure you that pain is not English class.
 
Quote from killthesunshine:

more freedom than 'corporate america' (whatever that is) to do what?

(aren't hosiptals or doc PC's corporate america?)

what decision do you make without ANY overseeing?

how many patients have you seen and diagnosed w/o seeing the doc first

take today for instance? or yesterday? or last week?

how about in last month what have you done w/o checking first with a superior?

Sorry I missed these posts. Let's see now. What decisions do I make.....I make the decision on if the docs need to be called. I make the decision on what the doc needs to do based on the info I or my aides collect. If I do need more expertise, the doc is very likely to ask me what I think the patient needs. I make decisions on staffing. I would dare say I make more decisions a day than you do a week:)

And my decisions affect lives, in real time , do yours?
 
Quote from BlueHorseshoe:

I put a couple of relatives through nursing school ... best investment I ever made.

Speaking of freedom ... from what I understand nurses just never get fired, because they are in such short supply. So they have duties, and they are accountable ... but doctors are so overworked they really give the nurses autonomy ... just my 2.

Precisely.
 
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