Well yeah, that makes sense. From day one in college your colleagues are your competition, and you have to bolster yourself into a “be better than the rest” headspace if you want to succeed. I don’t know if it’s a similar story when you actually get to Medical School, but I don’t think this competitive attitude ever goes away.
Regarding your note at the end, its hard to say the exact requirements to graduate from NP school, but most reputable schools offering an NP program require at least 2-3 years if not 4. Online schools however while typically cheaper do fast track you and have sketch results from what I've heard. In my state for instance you need specific licenses to work in psych, family practice, geriatrics, etc.. each of which will cost you extra. In the programs I looked into taking you could bypass some of the requirements in any given specialty if you already had your dnp in something else. I've been told by NP's I've met that they believed NP school was easier than regular nursing school(granted the school they and I attended is notorious in our area for being retardedly hard to pass). While NP's definently know more than your average nurse, and are probably ok to work in family practice (low stress environments with some oversite) they should not be working in ER's or even acute care for that matter. They also should have oversite for some extended time by a physician, at the very least 5 years. Lastly given the group of people I know who've either gone to NP school or aspire to your characterization of them as narcists is apt.
Ask, and you shall receive.
That is truly disturbing, as is the fact that becoming a NP in the US is such a short path.
As far as the science shit goes, I have a minor story/pl relating to this sentiment. I have a bio degree, and a lot of the other kids in my extended family got into nursing. Something that floored me early on was that their science requireds weren’t as stringent as mine. They didn’t need to make their own agar in micro, I’m actually not sure they even maintained their own cultures, which I assumed was SOP because it’s piss easy.
Hey Hey People, Sseth here.
Aren’t there licensing exams for nurses? Professional programs ride or die on their exam pass rates.
Because nurses never do this in Western healthcare systems. It's unlikely to ever be a job requirement because lab staff are significantly cheaper per hour than nurses in almost all jurisdictions.
Oh, and of course
Oh AND she was making it rain Oxy scripts on patients she had never seen in person, because that's a free space in Bad Midlevel Bingo.
Yeah well, what if I wanted to consent to being a pizza?
Nurses don't know why dosages are given, they know what a normal dosage might look like say for instance "2tabs 325mg acetaminophen every 4hrs", but in the case of most medications don't know why that specific order was made. Nurses are not trained to understand dosages, just to correctly administer them, and in some cases understand when a dosage is dangerous. Never take a nurses words on changing your dosage as an absolute, they might be on the right track but always check with a pharmacist or physician.
That's a hell of a story. Was your dad able to get some renumeration? If nothing else, for the money you paid to see a doctor without ever actually seeing a doctor?
Well what were they expecting with a name like Dregs?
