Why the hell do people take nursing at uni???

Surgery is a speciality, some doctors can't do it.

I'm sure there's plenty of people that want to be nurses but have had no intention of being a doctor.

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I just cant understand the lure of 'Nursing' please enlighten me and help me change my view of thinking its a waste of an individuals life to take it.

I have no end of respect for those who work in the NHS because they get **** on 24/7 but some of the people I see doing nursing degrees are nothing short of morons. 2 girls who are in my facebook friends discussed an exam they had to pass. The total mark was out of 50, and they decided that having to get 35/50 to pass equaled 50%.

And you really want these idiots saving your life why, exactly?

They are different, complimentary roles. That's like me saying: 'My colleague on the shop floor clearly works harder than my colleague in the stock room, because I can physically see him working. I can't see the guy out back'.

Can they not both be working hard?

I just cant understand the lure of 'Nursing' please enlighten me and help me change my view of thinking its a waste of an individuals life to take it.

Well if no one did it and you had to go into hospital you'd be up **** creek wouldn't you? Nurses are hugely underrated and doctors aren't all that you know. Yes they've had to work bloody hard but so have nurses. And in case you haven't noticed, there's a shortage of nurses and the NHS, as clueless as they are, are laying a lot of them off whilst management get to keep their cushy jobs as well as absolutely undeserved salaries. Do they have to change patients' catheters and take them to the toilet? Do. They. Hell.

The person who makes a non-splash toilet will be a hero.

I hear they've invented something called a lid...

I would LOVE to see some doctors attempt some of the things nurses have to do.


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So you are saying basically all student nurses are idiots !!! The qualifications,entrance exams on interview day, even getting an interview is so hard !! Please don't judge everyone I personally am not an idiot and will be a very hard working competent nurse.

Not at all. What I'm saying is these select people manage to scrape their way through easy A-levels and end up on a nursing degree and they can barely do anything academic. I'm not saying all nurses are idiots, I'm saying if you're on a nursing degree (or any degree, to be honest) you shouldn't be THAT stupid. Especially if you're training to save lives. If you can't find 50% of ANYTHING then you should be at primary school still. Not learning how to stop people from dying.

My auntie is a nurse (well, now she's a Ward Sister but she still went through the degree process) and I have nothing but respect for her profession. It's a hard job, long hours, poor pay (at first) and abusive patients. I don't like her much, but that isn't for this thread

Tbh the pay is half decent at the start- especially as most nursing grads net jobs.

The trouble is that the salary progression is really slow so it doesn't keep up with other sectors. The ceiling of earning potential is also pretty low.

Some of the maths required for skills training is reasonably complex. Those whom cannot pass them will not progress very far.


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And yet they let people with poor maths skills study Nursing...

I mean I'm not a maths whizz-kid, far from it but if I wanted to do a degree that needed reasonably good maths skills and I was allowed to study it I'd be questioning why I was let on it. It's just a waste of tuition (and they're funded via the NHS so indirectly the country is paying for idiots to drop out after the first year anyway....)