And being in semester 2 of your first year of nursing, you must have had so many of those.
Don't be so sarcastic...it's rude but more to the point it's unnecessary. What makes you better than me? You're a medical student surely you must value the work nurses and their students do? And I have worked in a hospital and heard patients talk about nurses as though they are simply technicians trained to operate sphymomanometers with no skills is assessing a blood pressure or acting on an abnormal value for a particular patient's defined range of normal values as seen in the obs chart.
Anyway what would I know? As you say ooh I'm in semester 2 of first year of nursing and have had no practical or personal experience in healthcare.
I don't understand why people on this forum are so quick to judge without actually knowing the first thing about my situation or the situations and personal circumstances of other users whom I have at times seen criticised for their perceived naivety when really, the tall poppy syndrome of a select few (a minority) medical students is what's truly the issue.
Whenever I do try to stand up for what I believe in on these forums I just get told I'm stupid or that I don't know any better. Well I know a lot more than you would expect and I am constantly accessing medical and nursing literature through the resources available through my university to learn more about specific illness, anatomy and physiology as well as patients' perceptions and team dynamics/skill mix in hospitals.
I have worked in a hospital full time for five weeks. No it's not 2 years. No I'm not a medical student. No I don't think I want to be a doctor at this stage in my life. Who cares? Just know that I am not dumb and am far from naive.
Try not to dish out cheap shots, based on whatever the limited anecdotal evidence you have as a 1st year nursing student. It's embarrassing and looks as though you are insecure about the value of your profession. It's fine to assert the value of a nurses work and scope of practice, but don't try and bring down a group of people who will be your teammates, collegues and perhaps friends when you get out into the work force.
Um this is awkward because I already have doctor and nurse friends. Anyway... we take ourselves a lot less seriously in real life than people do on the Internet - funny that! You have to learn to tell the difference between me being tongue in cheek or having a little joke etc this being different to intentionally doling out a cheap shot at doctors. I am highly appreciative of the work that doctors do, it makes the work that nurses are responsible for possible and vice versa!
I see from your profile that you are also a first year nursing/paramedic student. Surely you can understand that after 5 forty hour weeks in a hospital for the first time I feel a little burnt out and just want to laugh about everything and have a bit of fun? Anyway maybe I'm wasting my breath trying to explain. I don't know.
Lighten up a little bit peoples!
Alright, enough bagging. Move on (please do not reply unless it is constructive)
I am sick and tired of the bagging me out. God knows it happened enough in high school. You're medical students...and dental students etc...just grow up. I'm not perfect and I know that. What is the value in constantly, viciously attacking any post I make based on 'lack of experience'? Everyone has a lack of experience at some stage in ANY career and the fact that most users of this forum are
students would suggest many, many people here are lacking some serious experience. Not just me.