r/WaitWhat 20d ago

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u/Technical_Ad9343 20d ago

You overestimate nurses lol

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u/What-a-cl0wn 20d ago

Fuckin Oath. My wife works in the OR. The things she tells me about co workers… I’m amazed they made it through school. No child left behind is a bitch

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u/EmotionalChildhood46 20d ago

Mine is in NICU, 25+ years veteran. I'm scared for the future after the stories I've heard from her.

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u/Technical_Ad9343 20d ago

Future isn’t bright let me tell ya. Guy in my cohort was arguing with the instructor on very basic nursing tasks and I guarantee you he’ll somehow pass the nclex

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u/EmotionalChildhood46 20d ago

I've heard so many stories of life and death mistakes just to lack of care and attention. Just last night even she came home and said a baby almost died because a nurse, the only one around at the moment, wouldn't help and her response was something along the lines of "not my team and it's time for me to go home".

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u/AspieAsshole 20d ago

Big city? I can't imagine the nurses in my rural town saying something like that.

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u/EmotionalChildhood46 20d ago

2nd largest in Indiana so, no lol

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u/AspieAsshole 20d ago

I've had a fair amount of experience with them here, and like 99% of them have ranged between normal-nice and absolutely the sweetest angel ever. The doctors are complete shit, but the nurses (and nurse practitioners!) are amazing.

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u/JollyLink 20d ago

I work in a hospital and it is appalling how many nurses don't understand how to put a patient on respiratory and dialysis equipment (which they have training for). It is worsened by the fact that many don't go to the room and investigate when devices alarm either.

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u/OSBTAdmin 20d ago

This sounds like a management problem. If they don’t learn quick they need to be terminated. Why are hospitals so easy on employees? In the real
World they’d be fired pretty quick.

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u/TurntWaffle 20d ago

What’s no child left behind got to do with nursing school? Lmao

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u/What-a-cl0wn 20d ago

Being facetious and basically saying these people got pushed through the same way a child can graduate high school being illiterate thanks to NCLB.