Medical School

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

Aww, don't say that! Nursing isn't a piece of cake by any means; at least the RN end of it. Not sure how much training the bedpan changers need.

My sister-the-doctah-whom-our-mother-likes-the-best (yep, that's actually how she's known in our family!) says that lots of doctors are really condescending and rude to the nurses so she goes out of her way to be nice to them. She says nurses can help make a doc's job much easier or much harder.

I don't mean that nursing is easy. I'm an EMT and it's my experience in EMS that made me decide to pursue nursing to begin with. My mother's an RN. What I like about nursing (and hate about EMS) is the rapport you can develop with your patients and seeing them from beginning to end of treatment. When I have a patient in my ambulance, I have about 20 minutes tops to chill and get to know them. Then I don't see them again (if they're lucky and not repeat customers).

Nurses do work extremely hard, especially to earn their RN, but doctors study even harder and have to do harder classes to get to medical school.

EMTs should also go out of their way to make nurses' lives easy. My company keeps candy jars filled, and hands out pens, notepads etc. It makes them happy and keeps us in business and we don't get a hard time. I will never work as an ER nurse though. Nursing there holds the aspect that I hate about EMS.