To be pissed off at being 'just' a nurse?

[bottleofwater]

Three times in the last week Ive had different family members making sarky comments regarding some recent achievements & promotion at work.

Usually comments along the lines of "Oh Florence Nightingale you will be telling the Doctors what to do now" " You will be a surgeon in no time" & " What do nurses know about blood pressures, they are not doctors".

Im so fed up of how its like being a nurse is rubbish & that only Doctors are of any value

Also comments regarding how I dont make the same amount of money as other family members but thats probably another thread!

Not sure what they think nurses actually do but aibu to be pissed off at the constant sneering at me?

No yanbu but tbf you are able to do less than a Dr. And m9ney is nt everything!

Yanbu, You are most definately not just a nurse. Ignore them they have tiny brains and big mouths, If only there was a cure..

redhelen your post makes no sense?

OP YANBU. Bunch of dicks.

If there were only doctors in hospitals we'd all be fucked. Ignore the stupid sods.

YANBU I would be so pissed off as well. Nurses do a bloody hard job and shouldn't be the receiver of any derogatory comments. I've met nurses that have been better than the doctors! I'd like to see what the people who are making these rude comments do for their vocation!! Bet they're not bloody rocket scientists that's for sure ignorance is bliss I suppose!

Ignore ignore ignore.

Nurses are bloody amazing and everyone knows it. People say similar about teachers, it's ridiculous!

What an absolute load of bollocks OP. Nurses are far more valuable that their counterparts in so many ways! They know their patients better, they can do so much more than the doctors in many different ways. Nurses are so highly skilled and under appreciated.

Hold your head up high OP, you are doing an amazing job.

But you are “just” a nurse in comparison to doctors. You can’t fight facts.

Incidentally-the best doctors ive seen have been the ones who did auxiliary work while they were doing their medical training. They were so much nicer and more understanding with their patients than those who hadn’t.

RoseWhiteTips your comment is derogatory and completely uncalled for. Try and do a nurses shift for one day and even dare to say that again.

YANBU. Of course nurses have 'value' as you put it. However, being absolutely honest, in my experience, nurses are ultimately guided by doctors' decisions and lack any real autonomy. Is that what they mean when they make the references to you telling doctors what to do? This is the case in many industries and positions however and the sneering you speak of is absolutely out of order. Without nurses, there would be no doing. We need the doers. You are, of course, of value.

The wages... well, it is what it is unfortunately. If it were up to me I'd pay you more, but it isn't. I find myself in a similar bind, albeit with more autonomy and responsibility, for which I feel I am not paid adequately. What to do though?

Start practicing the words "fuck off" on a loop if they start again. And don't let it impact. It's all just stupid, ill informed noise.

Congratulations on your promotion. These people are dickheads. Clearly jealous. Ignore them

Pp that comment is unhelpful and not answering what OP is asking. The comments she has been receiving are rude. it's doesn't matter whether you're a nurse or a doctors nobody deserves to be belittled.

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WHAt does “just” mean @rosewhite

Are people “just” teachers because they could be doctors? Or “just” scientists because they could be astronauts?

Bizarre attitude. Glad I don’t have to work with you.

I'd like to know what your vocation is rose?

No yanbu to resent being referred to as just a nurse BUT drs can do more in the way of procedures, diagnosis prescribing etc. And money is nt everything so don't measure worth by that. Hope this makes more sense Nicky Jacky.

My mum and my aunt have been nurses for nearly 30 years. They’re my heroes. There’s no such thing as ‘Just a nurse’ x

What is ‘just’ anyway?

For example. Nurses can’t prescribe medications but they’re the ones who notice the doctors errors and get it fixed.

They are on the very front line when it comes to patient care and they’re the first to notice when a patient deteriorates and they’re the ones who save them. I’d rather have one nurse than two doctors looking after me any day.

All I know is that those “just nurses” are the ones with the patients and know more about their patients most of the time!

Nurses are amazing.

Completely different job, like comparing apples and pears, throw it back at them in relation to comparing their jobs to something unrelated!
Well done by the way!

And you are "just" a knob in comparison to reasonable human beings, RWT. You can't fight facts.

And nurses have no autonomy? What about our very qualified nurses working in community? Or those who work in care homes and have no doctors on site 24/7 and make medical decisions all day every day?

I Think some people’s idea of nursing is trapped in the 1950s.

And as for diagnosis. The doctor can diagnosis and suggest treatment but nurses administer treatments and notice when things aren’t right, not the doctors.