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it's vastly smarter to go into nursing than medicine My girlfriend just graduated from nursing school, so I know a lot of recently-graduated nursing students.

it's vastly smarter to go into nursing than medicine My girlfriend just graduated from nursing school, so I know a lot of recently-graduated nursing students. They do not agree with you. At all. Doctors don't have to clean feces off of people who are too obese to move.

jseliger 16y ago
I asked her about this: "Doctors don't have to clean feces off of people who are too obese to move." She said, "Yes, we do. Not only have I had to do just that, but I've had to put my finger in the rectum of an obese, eighty-year-old man, and literally pick out an impacted wedge of poop, after which, I had to insert a tube that I squirted water into and use a bucket to catch what came out. Later in the day, when I was checking on somebody, they vomited on me. And this was at the end of a thirty-hour shift, during which time I had slept like thirty minutes. Bite me. These were not isolated incidents." The other thing she's said to me (a lot) is that nurses can easily make $50K a year right out of undergrad (or more), and she's actually right about this because I didn't believe her at first: http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp ; the median salary for beginning nurses is $52,700. If they don't like what they're doing, they can switch the kind of nursing they do (while being paid) or retrain as nurse anesthetists or nurse practitioners, who make over $100K a year. In contrast, doctors have to go to med school for four years, incur a lot of debt, and do a hellacious residency for three to nine years. Nurses can get jobs with 500 hours of clinical practice; doctors need more like 20,000K hours: http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/media/kits/fp-np/educational-training.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/media/kits/fp-np/educatio... . In any event, there are shitty parts of nursing, but it offers good pay for reasonable amounts of work.
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jseliger 16y ago

I asked her about this: "Doctors don't have to clean feces off of people who are too obese to move." She said, "Yes, we do. Not only have I had to do just that, but I've had to put my finger in the rectum of an obese, eighty-year-old man, and literally pick out an impacted wedge of poop, after which, I had to insert a tube that I squirted water into and use a bucket to catch what came out. Later in the day, when I was checking on somebody, they vomited on me. And this was at the end of a thirty-hour shift, during which time I had slept like thirty minutes. Bite me. These were not isolated incidents." The other thing she's said to me (a lot) is that nurses can easily make $50K a year right out of undergrad (or more), and she's actually right about this because I didn't believe her at first: http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp ; the median salary for beginning nurses is $52,700. If they don't like what they're doing, they can switch the kind of nursing they do (while being paid) or retrain as nurse anesthetists or nurse practitioners, who make over $100K a year. In contrast, doctors have to go to med school for four years, incur a lot of debt, and do a hellacious residency for three to nine years. Nurses can get jobs with 500 hours of clinical practice; doctors need more like 20,000K hours: http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/media/kits/fp-np/educational-training.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/media/kits/fp-np/educatio... . In any event, there are shitty parts of nursing, but it offers good pay for reasonable amounts of work.

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