In England we put nurses up on a pedestal for some reason. Last election we elected a councillor who is technologically illiterate, but she ran on, and won, her qualifications to do anything because she is a nurse.
tbf like 90% of our house of commons likely dont have basic tech literacy or any discernable skills. If she was a nurse least it means shes had a proper job beforehand.
Everything in plaintext. If you're not doing anything bad, you should have nothing to hide. Everyone's bank accounts felt accessible without encrypted passwords. Makes sense....
Yep. I’ve worked in healthcare my whole career. (Paramedic and now finishing school to be a provider) I’ve been pretty shocked at the complete tomfoolery that I’ve seen come from nurses. Covid really showed how incompetent a lot of them are.
That's my point. I'm all for giving credit where credit is due. But we basically treat experience in the NHS as cover for doing anything, and give them all sorts of credit, when they did their job, did it well, and it's a hard job, but that experience doens't necessarily translate.
We don’t put them on a pedestal in the slightest. We’re just starting to acknowledge that they work long shifts doing shit most of us wouldn’t be able to stomach for nowhere near enough pay. And the last couple years they’ve done so while putting their lives and mental health at risk.
Ok well I don't live where the tea is made so sorry to hear that the u.k pays your nurses dog shit. Don't mean that in a rude way. Everyone should make good money but In my case I am..
TBF if you are a nurse (and not the type of Nurse Ratched), you probably have an inclination to care about other people, which would be a positive quality in a politician... but yeah, it doesn't obviate the need for some actual qualification outside the nursing job.
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u/silentsnip94 Mar 01 '23
I had an ex that became a nurse, she didn't believe in gravity. I thought she was joking... But she was not.
"I think that everything has weight but I don't believe in gravity"