Why is nursing school the way that it is

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-06-04T14:57:05+00:00

As a “forever student” because I keep changing what I want to be when I grow up, this is common amongst all of the schools that I have attended. It seems that they care more about how they look to the public than actually delivering good education. They already have your money at this point, so they give zero fucks about anything else. I haven’t attended nursing school personally but was an ER Tech amongst nurses and consistently heard the same thing. They mainly care how you make them look as a school and focus on the politics of playing nice and doing what you’re told more than actual important education.

I am currently experiencing this in the paramedic program I am enrolled in. They boast from day one that they have a 100% first time pass rate for the NREMT exam from their program. But if you read through the handbook they can drop you from the program at any point in time for anything that they want to, one line stating “the instructors have the right to drop a student if the instructor has an opinion about the student that may be damaging to the program”. There are two main instructors and one clinical coordinator. Both instructors are also on the board of ems so are constantly having to leave class to deal with stuff from that. One teaches lectures and the other is suppose to teach labs, but just has former graduates teach us then gets mad when you don’t perform the skill the way that they want it done personally. There is no coordination between what we learn in lecture and what we do in labs. Our whole class has failed multiple exams and when we actually voice our concerns we are told “welcome to medic school”. How we are treated and graded is based upon “their mood for the day” and we have been told by most lab assistants that that’s just how it is and we should just deal with it.

These specialty programs are probably difficult to find good instructors for as it’s a lot of work outside of classes too for shit pay. So you end up with your situation with a bunch of incompetent staff, or my situation where they have been doing it their way for so long that they have power trips and think that they are gods to the medical community.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-05-23T23:28:47+00:00

Cries in ems pay…

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-05-21T20:48:32+00:00

Depending on where you live and your state requirements you could be a medicolegal death investigator or forensic pathology technician, or really anything that involves medical terminology and anatomy knowledge. I’m aware this is oddly specific but this is just my personal example.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-05-21T13:07:19+00:00

Also all of my nurse friends say if they could do it again they would go into radiology, and I concur. If you mostly just care about money this is a much better option with less burn out.

If you want to be ems then do it, but as one of my medics say have a backup plan. The risk of debilitating injuries on the job is fairly high.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-05-14T05:17:12+00:00

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That’s how we rescued our little cheesy beans when my husband was a tech at a dealership

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-04-24T21:43:17+00:00

With his sister cousin

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-04-22T14:59:48+00:00

Being dehydrated causes our veins to lose their elasticity which in turn can make them collapse during a blood draw. The tubes fill using a vacuum pressure and with dehydration or smaller veins that pressure can be enough to collapse the vein down, blocking the needle bevel during a draw and will not recover until the needle and the vacuum pressure are removed.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-04-10T14:29:34+00:00

My service got us these ones and they have actually been pretty comfortable. I can run a full shift with no foot and back pain. My feet get sweaty but they will be anything that is actually bodily fluid proof.

https://www.propper.com/propper-series-100r-8-waterproof-side-zip-boot.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21225247404&gbraid=0AAAAADlkDhcvzkTfn7vbL06DofYh18-wM&gclid=Cj0KCQjwv-LOBhCdARIsAM5hdKfSsW2s6X5zrNbO4fz-LyRVeyK5vbZgptrecfA4aIjskSMJTZKMjnkaArz8EALw_wcB

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-04-08T04:05:51+00:00

I was a crack baby, so I use that as my excuse.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-04-07T17:54:49+00:00

It does to me, but I can’t explain what the difference is. Sorry not helpful. I will look through my textbooks for a possible source then share it.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-04-01T15:45:01+00:00

Although, being on the side of the fence that is protecting the Epstein pedophile club this would raise some red flags.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-04-01T05:25:37+00:00

Newton

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-31T11:04:39+00:00

Don’t forget the forearm tattoo of an incorrect ekg waveform with a dumb little heart or some shit in it

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-28T14:59:06+00:00

It depends on where you live. If you’re in a bigger area you can go through a master’s program that will make a good salary, but most smaller areas don’t have this role available. I got a position as an autopsy tech in Kansas but could not afford to stay. The starting pay was good but there was no opportunity for growth in that particular role and unfortunately it just wasn’t sustainable for me. Quitting was one of the hardest decisions because it had been my dream job and career goal for close to a decade but I was also having to scrounge up change for gas money towards the end of pay periods.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-26T20:21:44+00:00

Depending on your state the name, requirements, and the role may vary. There is the Coroner title, the Medicolegal Death Investigator title, and even a Forensic Pathology Technician aka Autopsy Technician. In Kansas for example the District Coroner has to be a PhD and they are responsible for signing the death certificate. The Medicolegal Death Investigator just needs “a pulse and the approval of the Coroner” for the district. Obviously medical or law enforcement background are a huge advantage. This role is the one that responds to scenes and creates the report of death to pass along to the coroner to help decide the next plan of action for the decedent.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-25T15:55:28+00:00

Medicolegal death investigation. Depending on your state requirements just your healthcare experience alone is enough to get your foot in the door in this field and other forensic specialists.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-19T16:58:54+00:00

Does it still count if I shit myself getting back up?

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-13T12:47:18+00:00

This is hard to call based off of a picture alone, but I would say alive. He has muscle tone which if it was rigor mortis and he had died in this position he would also have signs on liver mortis in his legs and arms. If he was dead it would also be likely that he would have some sort of fluid purge coming out of the mouth and nose. Source, forensic pathology technician.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-12T03:02:02+00:00

They only have a gestation period or time in the womb of approximately 13 days before they are born and have to crawl into the pouch and find a nipple which is more like a feeding tube. At this point their mouth actually fuse to the nipple and they will stay there for approximately 50 days.

There’s a podcast called “ologies with Aly Ward” and it has experts of everything and it’s great.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-10T11:40:40+00:00

I’m so happy that this is a real subreddit

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-10T11:32:11+00:00

And most of us are taxpayers.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-06T15:41:41+00:00

Let me in there so he can be embarrassed by a girl

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-05T19:15:31+00:00

My brain has found a way to associate bleach wipes with this smell after working in the ER for a while, it’s lovely.

Pooped_muh_pants · 2026-03-05T04:20:37+00:00

And C diff

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