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Originally posted by daking17
What the **** are you babbling about?
Urinary catheterization
Peritoneal dialysis care
Tube feeding
Intravenous therapy
Stoma/Peristomal Skin Care
JP drains & Hemovacs maintenance
Ventilator care
Telemetry
JUST to name a few & that's not even taking in consideration all the support we have to provide to the patients & their families.
Walk a day in our shoes before you start making these kind of gross generalizations
Yes some nurses might be lazy at the hospital YOU work at but how does that = ''Nursing is a basic job and MOST people do it for the money''.
I'm sorry but your way of thinking is frankly quite idiotic and before spewing such nonsense please educate yourself.
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I never said it was the most basic job.
And to state again: I HAVE NEVER SAID THAT NURSING IS EASY.
I'm saying that a lot people go into for the wrong reasons. You're obviously a hardowrking and educated nurse and I respect people like you. And yes, maybe my statement was idiotic and undeducated but it was something I wanted to get off of my chest. Thanks for the information, though because a lot of the stuff I was hearing were from friends and such.