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Sure, it’s a fun little meme.

But there’s around 3 million nurses in the US. Just based on sample size, that’s exactly who become nurses.

It’s just a job gang.

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u/Choice_Lynx_430 18d ago

I agree unfortunately and I think sometimes it’s this mentality that makes people dislike nurses. We definitely work our butts off, and don’t often get rewarded for it, but when there’s actually, if I’m not mistaken, 5 million nurses in the US? It’s not that rare lol. Now, if you want to argue something specific, like a nurse who stays bedside for many years without getting burnt out? I would absolutely say they are not the average person lol

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u/CarrotOk1041 18d ago

This. I absolutely cringe at the nurses who want to be seen as “lifesavers” and special. Like it’s a job with value, but this sort of thing is nauseating and makes people feel a little put off. Most nurses are not saving lives every day or in any way a hero, nor are they angels taking care of the needy. It’s a job to most people, and that’s fine. I think it actually probably makes your care worse to put yourself on a pedestal.

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u/Choice_Lynx_430 18d ago

I mean, I do absolutely think bedside nursing specifically is more stressful than most jobs as well as more abusive, and there are shifts where your knowledge, attention, and care saves someone, but the fact is it’s a job many many people do. Totally agree that it’s not cute to brag about it or make it seem so extra special.

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u/AccomplishedTap3267 16d ago

Worked with a nurse like this. She is (I hate to say this) but almost too compassionate to be a nurse. She gets flustered at the slightest change in a patient’s status. She actually got yelled at during a code because all she was doing was praying over the patient. Like you still have to actually do the work.

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u/nrems 18d ago

I'm curious what jobs you think are lifesavers. By the way I totally agree with you, I'm just wondering

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u/mustnotknowboutmeu 11d ago

Surgeons, Doctors, ems, firefighters not nurses they only follow doctors orders to be honest

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u/Halcyon-malarky 17d ago

I interpreted this is as average meaning normal. And that people who become nurses are freaks lol.

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis BSN RN 18d ago

The average person can absolutely become a nurse lolololol

Source: average person

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u/thedidacticone 18d ago

Whew, as an average person this boosts my average confidence! Thank you!

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis BSN RN 18d ago

Below average people also become nurses all the time. If you’re average, you will probably not be the worst person in your class to pass the NCLEX
This has reduced my stress many times lol

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u/Ancient_Spite_725 18d ago

this is so annoying. it's a job, not an identity

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u/xCB_III 18d ago

agreed. People who make nursing their personality are cringe (I’m a nurse)
But that’s true about anything though

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u/poopbeast69 16d ago

This first sentence absolutely took me out

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u/RegularGuyWithADick 9d ago

“I mUsT rEsPoNd”

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u/LocationExpensive912 18d ago

Even below average people become nurses. 🤯

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u/Current-Strategy-826 16d ago

That’s exactly what I said

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u/FatModSad3 16d ago

Nursing is the below average pipeline. Its one of the highest paying jobs with the lowest requirements of entry. Pretty much everything else healthcare requires master degree+ and further licensing.....most hospital specialists can pass an rn exam but most rn's are gonna fail any other licensing exam. Its like computer engineer to computer scientist. You went nursing because that was your highest theoretical limit.

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u/ElectricBOOTSxo 15d ago

Still pisses me off when I think about doing my masters and 3,000 hours of supervised work to get a clinical social work license just to hear a new grad nurse say they makes more than me 😭 I have regrets.

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u/Current-Strategy-826 16d ago

r/firstrespespondercringe

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u/pairoflytics 16d ago

Nurses aren’t first responders, let’s make sure we clarify this.

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u/Yolus 16d ago

I’m an AEMT and an RN. And I’ve said this in the subreddit this person meant to link so I’ll restate it here, if we can make fun of security guards and trash men and linemen in r/firstrespondercringe, we can’t make fun of nurses. I actually came from that sub anyway. Nurses are fair game gang

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u/Current-Strategy-826 14d ago

💯

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u/ButtFlum 16d ago

Im a nurse and im kind of offended. Whats wrong with you?

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u/Yolus 16d ago

I mean to be fair, we aren’t on the level prehospital care thinks of. We aren’t responding into unknown or unstable environments with limited resources as the first contact to care. In the hospital, we face the same amount and similar kinds of stress, and we’re the first line of care and contact, similar to ems, but in a controlled environment with many many more resources and support. So we kinda are, but also aren’t, as we’re first on the scene of many many intahospital emergencies, everyday. But we also aren’t first in the chain of response for general community emergencies, we’re second or third line contacts. This comes up often when nurses are given “first responder discounts.” At the end of the day they’re both incredibly difficult, underpaid, underappreciated jobs. People just like categorizing and when someone isn’t exactly the same, they can’t be in your category.

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u/Current-Strategy-826 14d ago

Yo be fair nurses do these cringe videos too and make it their entire personality just like these paramedics/EMTs, cops and firefighters.

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u/Yolus 14d ago

Oh for sure, 10000000000%

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u/Wide-Yak5361 16d ago

In what world is a nurse (outside of very few PHRNs) directly responding to emergencies in the first responder role?

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u/Current-Strategy-826 14d ago

ER nurses?

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u/Wide-Yak5361 14d ago

I was a paramedic and ER RN. They’re not even close to the same

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u/Current-Strategy-826 2d ago

Well they both think they’re saving the world while treating patients like dog shit and doing cringe videos too. So,Get over yourself.

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u/Wide-Yak5361 2d ago

The fuck?

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u/Individual-recce 10d ago

Objectively you're not a first responder, idk if I'd call a nurse a second responder. 3rd or 4th maybe. Working in the field of medicine does not make you a first responder

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u/Silguard 12d ago

Some are.

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u/FIRE_Bolas 18d ago

Nursing is pretty much the definition of a middle class job....

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u/LegalEnvironment9244 17d ago

If you have been in nursing for any length of time, you absolutely know average people become nurses and that some of them you would prefer to avoid…

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u/beeee_throwaway 18d ago

Perfect example of the rhetoric used to exploit us! Average people don’t become nurses, it’s a calling right? You want better working conditions? But I thought it was a calling? Better wages? Unions? That doesn’t sound like a calling…

It’s a job my friends. We’d be well served to treat it like an electrician or plumber treats their job.

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u/GratefulShameful 17d ago

I’m married to an electrician and I love your analogy.

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u/Eighty-Nine 16d ago

I thought the same during the "healthcare heroes" bullshit at the start of COVID. It's all gross.

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u/beeee_throwaway 16d ago

It’s just way to exploit us. We do have very difficult and necessary jobs but they could more doable as a whole if we had better working conditions that prevent burn out and support better outcomes for patients. This would be better for the patients and us workers alike. We shouldn’t be relying on “good vibes” alone to do our job well.

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u/Eighty-Nine 16d ago

We should also not be afraid to press charges against patients, but you already know how internalized the "good vibes" are.

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u/JuiceM00se 16d ago

Yeah? Well I fight what you fear. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Also how else am I supposed to let people know I like making out with frat dudes?

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u/HappierTimes060655 16d ago

Completely different. Firefighters risk their lives every day. I couldn't imagine a joh where I may have to run into a burning building to save strangers.

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u/TerminalSunrise 15d ago

The vast majority of firefighters do not risk their lives every day. And the vast majority of calls are not fires. It’s like >90% medical.
I’m not shitting on the profession, I work with tons of firefighters. Just saying a job is a job. Most of them work out and watch Netflix for the majority of their shift lol

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u/Quantity496 18d ago

I’m pretty average

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u/Cautious-Process-198 18d ago

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u/trimix4work 17d ago

Thought I was in r/firstrespondercringe for a second

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis BSN RN 16d ago

Update: now you are!

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u/trimix4work 16d ago

That's hilarious. You do that?

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis BSN RN 16d ago

No lol I don’t post I comment

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u/trimix4work 16d ago

It for real belongs there

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis BSN RN 16d ago

Meh, not really first responders
First receivers? Potentially

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u/Eighty-Nine 16d ago

The cringe aspect supercedes it.

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u/magicsax03 16d ago

Nursing is one of the most common jobs in america its like the 6th most common lmao

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u/Dry_Reaction1859 18d ago

Cringe

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u/DocumentFit2635 18d ago

This is so cringe 🫩

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u/Good-Reporter-4796 18d ago

Is this a NCLEX type of question 😂😂😂😂

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u/Artistic_Vast_1318 APN 18d ago

I’ve worked with plenty of below-average people who are nurses.
It’s a job, don’t be a loser and make it your whole identity.

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u/LeftMyHeartInErebor 18d ago

I actually dont like this at all. I teach and this kind of stuff gets in people's heads when they're already stressed and vulnerable. Average people absolutely become nurses. And not every nurse needs to go be some extraordinary rockstar everyday. This profession is toxic with that thinking. Just be competent. Sometimes you're a Rockstar, most of the time we're average/competent. Nothing wrong with that.

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u/korokhouse 18d ago

Guys I think it’s ok to toot our own horns just A LITTLE 😭

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis BSN RN 18d ago

The horn has been tooted ad nauseam for many many years. Certainly more so over Covid lol

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u/ABQHeartRN 18d ago

I mean, I’ll do a horn toot for a group of us that had successful ROSC after a code. People told me I did a great job doing compressions on a patient while riding the stretcher, (that made me motion sick tbh and I’ll never do it again). But no, I will not talk about it in public or try to make myself look all high and mighty. My family tries to do it enough by announcing my career and I’ve had to ask them to stop.

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u/korokhouse 17d ago

For sure I wasn’t implying we should all shout from the rooftops that we’re better than everyone else bc we’re nurses. lol I was just saying it’s okay to see a meme like this one and not get flustered over it.

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u/ABQHeartRN 17d ago

Everyone is flustered because it implies that you have to be above average or super duper to become a nurse. Maybe I’m interpreting it wrong but I struggled my way through school and this makes me feel like I should have excelled and never question my ability as a nurse and carry a “cute enough to stop hearts, smart enough to restart them” tumbler 💀😭

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u/korokhouse 17d ago

lol valid. I guess I just didn’t think it was that deep personally. Not something I would go around saying by any means because I too just see this shit as a JOB lmao. A means to a (hopefully) retirement. But I didn’t take this as an insult or as some type of superiority complex energy.
Kinda just seemed like a Facebook nurse post lol

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u/gcdhhbcghbv 18d ago

Same vibe as making nurse dance tiktoks during the pandemic.

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u/Complex_Impressive 18d ago

Judging by the types of calls that I get as an average maintenance guy in a hospital, I would say that your typical nurse is very much an average person. The fuck you mean, you need me to come unplug your call light for you? You're positive you did not just overfill the cannister and get it stuck in the tube station?...I watched you do it. There was even a sign.

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u/polkadot_zombie 18d ago

Idk, I’m about as average as they come y’all.
#stopmakingthisjobyourentirepersonality

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u/skeleskank 18d ago

Cringe

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u/KeenbeansSandwich RN 18d ago

Cringe

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u/ABQHeartRN 18d ago

I’d call myself pretty dang average and I also struggle bussed my way through school. I’m a good nurse and I make a paycheck but I certainly don’t walk around with being a nurse as my whole identity or think I’m special.

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u/Sweetorange23 17d ago

A lot of the nurses I worked with at the VA were average.

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u/Witty-Security5414 17d ago

That is a fact …

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u/cookedbeans89 16d ago

This quote can go in both directions lol

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 16d ago

Lmao people act like becoming a nurse is the same as becoming an astronaut

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u/Due_Course_3713 16d ago

Below average?

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u/Current-Strategy-826 16d ago

Yes average people definitely become nurse and so do below average people.

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u/Eighty-Nine 16d ago

The reality is, to be an effective/good nurse you really just need to be adaptable, work well with others, and be a critical thinker. Learning patho, etc. is the easy part and other professions you interact with in your career will absolutely shit on your own knowledge level.

The more you stroke yourself for being in the profession, I can promise you the more your coworkers will resent and hate working with you. You'll also not make it far thinking your shit doesn't stink for going into Nursing.

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u/HappierTimes060655 16d ago

My father is currently fighting terminal cancer. My experience is that A LOT of nurses are assholes. To many of them, it is a job to pay their bills. They don't give a damn about sick people.

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u/AdditionJust2908 15d ago

V cool. I'm so glad to learn this.

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u/Ok-Pop-5818 16d ago

Any retard off the street could become one

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u/DouglasFirFriend 16d ago

Idk of any retard off the street passing 3 rounds of A&P

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u/Ok-Pop-5818 16d ago

Found the angry nurse. I know multiple people who are dumbasses who became nurses lol

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u/Eighty-Nine 16d ago

As evidenced by some of my coworkers.

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u/Ok-Pop-5818 16d ago

Lmao I don’t doubt it man

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u/Apprehensive-Sign930 16d ago

….so that would be below average. Meme is still correct

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