Proffession who works the hardest

[roderick]

There are three people who make this site truly funny: Mortimer, Lisa, and IM2. Mortimer is the good funny.

 

[Godboy]

Why?

Pfff... stupid fuckin question.

 

[WelfareQueen]

I was a mason for thirty-five years.

Masons work there ass off. Hard physical job.

 

[odanny]

Harder than a Marine?

Oh FFS.

 

[odanny]

Sure, I wanted to mention oil rings, construction sites, etc too. But then again, there are too many variables. If we are talking about a nurse in geriatric hospitals where many are confined to bed, then this work is quite physically challenging too. Even for men.

Also, speaking about mentally challenging. I had a co-worker whose wife worked as a nurse in a hospital that dealt with children having chronic diseases or some issues in development. I didn't even want to hear stories she shared to him. And now imagine what a young woman who is going to be a mother can feel.

Nurses have more mental stress than most professions, and this outweighs most jobs that are just hard, physical labor.

 

[braalian]

Crab fishermen have it harder. Oil rig workers have it harder. Hell, even roofers in Texas have it harder. Being a nurse is not hard. Ive been to hospitals many times. Those nurses dont ever looked overworked.

simply basing who works the “hardest” on who does the most physically demanding labor is pretty stupid.

First, moving, rolling, transferring, and repositioning and cleaning incontinent bed-ridden adults is EXTREMELY physically demanding.

And nurses have to assume enormous legal liability for the patients under their care. And that includes care provided by unlicensed personnel working under their “supervision”. I place supervision in quotation marks because it’s impossible to actually supervise what an aide may or may not be doing in another room while you’re passing meds a hallway away.

It’s a profession where you’re given a huge amount of responsibility/accountability with very little power or authority to actually enforce anything.

I can only speak from experience in skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes, subacute, rehab centers etc) but the stress level in that setting is ridiculous. You have enourmous patient loads. Up to 35 patients in long term and slightly less in rehab or subacute.

Yesterday I had 14 patients on subacute, almost all of whom had a feeding tube and a tracheotomy. Administering medication and treatments to such patients is more complicated and time consuming than you could imagine.

You have brain injury patients or stroke survivors who can’t eat or drink, are hooked up to tube feeding, completely incontinent. So contracted that you can’t unbend their arms or legs. Sometimes their contracted limbs press against each other so bad that they get terrible pressure sores from where one contracted leg presses against the other.

You have families who are in denial about the reality of their loved one’s condition.

In this setting, there’s no respiratory therapist. You are the one giving all the breathing treatments, suctioning all the trachs.

There’s usually no doctor or provider in the building. They don’t even come everyday.

 

[Godboy]

simply basing who works the “hardest” on who does the most physically demanding labor is pretty stupid.

First, moving, rolling, transferring, and repositioning and cleaning incontinent bed-ridden adults is EXTREMELY physically demanding.

And nurses have to assume enormous legal liability for the patients under their care. And that includes care provided by unlicensed personnel working under their “supervision”. I place supervision in quotation marks because it’s impossible to actually supervise what an aide may or may not be doing in another room while you’re passing meds a hallway away.

It’s a profession where you’re given a huge amount of responsibility/accountability with very little power or authority to actually enforce anything.

I can only speak from experience in skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes, subacute, rehab centers etc) but the stress level in that setting is ridiculous. You have enourmous patient loads. Up to 35 patients in long term and slightly less in rehab or subacute.

Yesterday I had 14 patients on subacute, almost all of whom had a feeding tube and a tracheotomy. Administering medication and treatments to such patients is more complicated and time consuming than you could imagine.

You have brain injury patients or stroke survivors who can’t eat or drink, are hooked up to tube feeding, completely incontinent. So contracted that you can’t unbend their arms or legs. Sometimes their contracted limbs press against each other so bad that they get terrible pressure sores from where one contracted leg presses against the other.

You have families who are in denial about the reality of their loved one’s condition.

In this setting, there’s no respiratory therapist. You are the one giving all the breathing treatments, suctioning all the trachs.

There’s usually no doctor or provider in the building. They don’t even come everyday.

There is nothing any nurse does that competes physically with what Marines do. Turning people over isnt as hard as carrying a 90 lbs pack for 15 miles.

You want to talk about "liability"? In the military we are under constant threat of imprisonment. Did your dads car die on the way to the airport as you were coming back from "leave" and you missed your flight? Tough shit, youre AWOL.

When i was an ejection seat mechanic in the Navy, you know that if an F-18 crashes and the pilot didnt eject, there is a very good chance that youre going to prison. The very first question they will ask after an ejectionless crash is "which AME did the daily inspection on the seat?". Its stressful as fuck, and you have to inspect several F-18s every day.

Try watching your friend get his head blown off next to you in combat. Dont give me this crap about nurses having it harder. They dont. Not even close.

 

[braalian]

There is nothing any nurse does that competes physically with what Marines do. Turning people over isnt as hard as carrying a 90 lbs pack for 15 miles.

You want to talk about "liability"? In the military we are under constant threat of imprisonment. Did your dads car die on the way to the airport as you were coming back on "leave"? Tough shit, youre AWOL.

When i was an ejection seat mechanic in the Navy, you know that if an F-18 crashes and the pilot didnt eject, there is a very good chance that youre going to prison. The very first question they will ask after an ejectionless crash is "which AME did the daily inspection of the seat?".

Try watching your friend get his head blown off next to you in combat. Dont give me this crap about nurses having it harder. They dont. Not even close.

Why the ridiculous comparison between nurses and marines? Apples and oranges.

 

[Godboy]

Why the ridiculous comparison between nurses and marines? Apples and oranges.

Ask rightwinger. He was the idiot who originally claimed that nursing was the hardest profession.

 

[Rocko]

Nursing is the hardest profession

 

[Zincwarrior]

Rodeo clowns. If they do their job RIGHT, their reward might be being tossed through the air by a bull. Thats just rude.

 

[braalian]

Lots of jobs are hard. But being at risk for danger doesn’t necessarily make a job hard on a day to day, hour by hour basis.

Lots of jobs involving security are very boring most of the time until they’re not for a brief time

Being a bouncer is mostly boring and routine until the shit hits the fan

It was “hard” in the sense that I was obviously at a greater risk of potential bodily harm. But I’d say being a nurse is way harder.

 

[liarintheWH]

Rodeo clowns. If they do their job RIGHT, their reward might be being tossed through the air by a bull. Thats just rude.

That’s not a rodeo clown.

That’s a bullfighter.

The guys behind the scenes loading the bulls work harder then them for less pay and even more risk.