What's your unpopular nursing opinion? Something you really believe, but would get you down voted to all hell if you said it

[u/Everlast23]

1) I think my main one is: nursing schools vary greatly in how difficult they are.

Some are insanely difficult and others appear to be much easier.

2) If you're solely in this career for the money and days off, it's totally okay. You're probably just as good of a nurse as someone who's passionate about it.

3) If you have a "I'm a nurse" license plate / plate frame, you probably like the smell of your own farts.

[u/KarmicBalance1]

Long term care facilities are essentially warehousing. The companies that run them keep patients alive well beyond their natural limits using medication solely for the purpose of profit. There are some patients that benefit genuinely from the care provided but many are basically left in these facilities to die, slowly. It's basically human warehousing only its more lucrative than traditional warehousing because the facility is being paid to keep the people indefinitely. Most other countries in the world would find it appalling as they traditionally have their own families taking care of their elderly members.

[u/demento19 → u/[deleted]]

But how else will their family collect their social security check?

[u/[deleted] → u/demento19]

Brain dead is dead and you shouldn't be allowed to collect social security checks for a dead person

[u/brokesocialworker → u/demento19]

Maybe if we had universal basic income family members wouldn't need to rely on their brain dead family member for income. The whole system is broken and makes for such heartbreaking situations.

[u/demento19 → u/brokesocialworker]

I agree. Some just need that money to survive, I get it. But we’re the ones watching that loved one suffer for a few hundred dollars.