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I love your rants, P'Gell! I used to want to be a nurse and went through Pharmacology classes and all kinds of stuff, and was a CNA in high school. We had clinicals in high school and the nurses were HORRIBLE to us. They made us do things they
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I love your rants, P'Gell! I used to want to be a nurse and went through Pharmacology classes and all kinds of stuff, and was a CNA in high school. We had clinicals in high school and the nurses were HORRIBLE to us. They made us do things they didn't want to. They'd all take smoke breaks and give us 16 year olds Percocet to dispense to patients, and they ordered us to give them showers and change IV bags and we weren't licensed for that! Lazy!
Anyway, now I'm a student going into Medical Billing and Coding. I realized that being a nurse would be too stressful for me, and I already deal with depression and anxiety on a daily basis. Still kind of in the medical field, but mostly paperwork and number crunching.
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I'm sorry those nurses were so mean to you. Medicine has a way of dumping on the "lowers" kinda like "well, I went through that when I was new." It's shit, I don't agree with it, I'm NICE to newbies, but not all nurses and doctor are. (Although it sucks when you know MORE than the first year Residents and you KNOW in a few years they'll be making in a month what you make in a year.......and you still probably know more than they do.)
NOBODY should be letting anyone without license and certification and Registration pass out ANY meds, let alone Oxycodone! And the IVs. Someone could have gotten an air emb. Jeez, a patient could have gotten hurt or the Floor Nurse could have (should have) gotten called on the carpet...
That shouldn't have happened, let me apologize, even though I wasn't there.
As for my post, I AM, therefore, I rant!
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