antcarrier
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Practice makes perfect. She'll be nailing IVs in a couple of months.
...by a lubricant miser.
Like I said how is it (some thought I was joking and I was, but only partially) Junkies can become experts in a day. It’s all about dedication and discipline. I think we’re talking about the increasingly poor heath care both administrative and medical. My sister went to nursing school in 1970 and then went right into ICU care as a RN up until 3 years ago. I don’t think there was such a thing as a two year tech then. She had to wear the whole respectable uniform and hat and had to do it right the first time or it was hell to pay. See, there was a time when medicine (along with many other occupations like education) was considered a “calling” and there was no room for half assed dedication. You had to prove yourself quick or go find less important work. Those of us alive then remember how it was. Now I have doctors, nurses and techs strolling around with full arm tattoos and “tramp stamps” and almost see through scrubs or whatever the hell they wear. It’s really a mess.
Sounds like you have a vagal response and it’s pretty common
Your post is a mixed bag for me. I don't want to touch the 3rd rail political stuff, but I think it is overly generalizing to say that nurses, especially, aren't the one vocation in medicine where people still feel a calling to do it. In fact it might the only area of medicine that is not as driven by greed and status. Too many Docs become Docs now because they want to make money and be put on a pedestal because they are doctors, not because they feel a calling to heal. Plus they get a sh*t ton of time to play golf while earning more than they should!
I have about 8 college friends that are all doctors now, from a pediatrician (who was my room mate) to 2 orthopedic surgeons, to a cardiologist, a dermatologist, 2 GP's, 1 OB, and an anesthesiologist. I went to UCSD for undergrad. Back then UCSD was all premed and engineering. It has diversified some since, but as a whole it is still focused heavily on STEM.
Most of them are 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation docs. The 3 that have kids in college are either Premed or in Med school already.
Man I had that happen too - YOUNG nurse doing that exact thing and I was finally like "how's it goin there? We almost good? Really starting to get to me a little bit so if we can move it along, that would be great." 1 more missed poke and I think I would lost it. Like just give it to me, I'll do it myself.
“First, this is not an attack on @Rex Rox just a correction. @Rex Rox, like most everyone, seems like a great person. So many issues that confront us should not be looked at personally, but as systems that are beyond our individual control. At least in todays world. I wanted to make that clear previously and forgot. I know there are many people in the medical field that work their butts off and are doing their best. I have family members who were and are just that.”
I never thought you singled out nurses. I was only saying that in the entire healthcare fiasco in our country, the part made up by nurses has more heroes per capita than any other part of that industry.