Nurses

mariaalice

I am curious about this, how come nurses are like a red rag to a bull on boards in various forums from the Irish economy to after hours.

Why do they attract all the ire, a small amount of it is misogyny for sure, and some of it is a bit nutty, but it is more that that as well.

Its definitely a Irish thing my daughter is a nurse in the UK and no one give a feck its just a job like any other job.

rubadub

mariaalice wrote: »

Its definitely a Irish thing my daughter is a nurse in the UK and no one give a feck its just a job like any other job.

What did you actually ask your daughter, or hear from her? e.g. did you ask if she noticed any comments on some UK forums similar to boards? did you bother to search yourself?

I doubt people who might whinge about them on boards are going around all the hospitals openly ranting at nurses in public.

K-9

mariaalice wrote: »

I am curious about this, how come nurses are like a red rag to a bull on boards in various forums from the Irish economy to after hours.

Why do they attract all the ire, a small amount of it is misogyny for sure, and some of it is a bit nutty, but it is more that that as well.

Its definitely a Irish thing my daughter is a nurse in the UK and no one give a feck its just a job like any other job.

Jaysus, that's the first time misogyny ever crossed my mind as a reason to begrudge nurses.

Tbh most of it seems to be about pay, as with all public sector bashing. Others don't seem to like that they've a pretty good reputation, and many sing their praises after witnessing what they do. Others just seem to belittle them as a vocation.

Specialun

some folks just want to be outraged and then the bandwagon just rolls on

wp_rathead

huh?
read the overpaid/underpaid thread - vast majority of posters agree they are underpaid and have nothing but utmost respect for nurses and care assistants

The Backwards Man

All jobs attract ire and vitriol here, nurses, teachers, guards, bouncers, farmers,no one is immune.

Frank Black

mariaalice wrote: »

I am curious about this, how come nurses are like a red rag to a bull on boards in various forums from the Irish economy to after hours.

Why do they attract all the ire, a small amount of it is misogyny for sure, and some of it is a bit nutty, but it is more that that as well.

Its definitely a Irish thing my daughter is a nurse in the UK and no one give a feck its just a job like any other job.

Haven't read much 'ire' on boards specifically directed at Nurses, and as regards misogyny - you are aware nurses aren't exclusivly female?

mariaalice

rubadub wrote: »

What did you actually ask your daughter, or hear from her? e.g. did you ask if she noticed any comments on some UK forums similar to boards? did you bother to search yourself?

I doubt people who might whinge about them on boards are going around all the hospitals openly ranting at nurses in public.

Yes we do talk about it as she had friends who are nurses at home and they often talk about he difference between the job here and in the UK.

Tornaxx

mariaalice wrote: »

Yes we do talk about it as she had friends who are nurses at home and they often talk about he difference between the job here and in the UK.

And what conclusion do they come to?

mariaalice

Frank Black wrote: »

Haven't read much 'ire' on boards specifically directed at Nurses, and as regards misogyny - you are aware nurses aren't exclusively female?

Of course I am aware they are not all female, there have been answers to question on The Irish economy regarding public services and nurses always get a terrible time there as well, the thing is there are lots of profession in the public services, but nurses get singled out a lot followed by guards and teachers.

Specialun

and were off..................

SEPT 23 1989

triple time on a Sunday

jr22

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

triple time on a Sunday

......and they know feck all about medicine.

SEPT 23 1989

big pensions

jr22

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

big pensions

Big arses.

Jester252

Without nurses who will marry the garda? I don't know many who would want to do such a hard job and fair play to the for doing it.

SEPT 23 1989

Jester252 wrote: »

who would want to do such a hard job and fair play to the for doing it.

17 euro an hour for fluffing a few pillows and fetching drinks

easy money

wp_rathead

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

17 euro an hour for fluffing a few pillows and fetching drinks

easy money

trolling or just good old fashioned ignorance Sept?

cletus van damme

5 nights on the trot of a nightshift.

I'm good friends with a nurse and it's a nightmare week.

also I like nurses - the women ones, of course

mariaalice

The misogyny was on a different forum and consisted of bizarre stuff about female nurses drinking and em mating behaviour, as I said that's just a very small part of it. There are lots of professions in the public services they are not mentioned by profession when the public service is being bashed, however nurses seem to be different in being singled out.

Jester252

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

17 euro an hour for fluffing a few pillows and fetching drinks

easy money

I was talking about been married to a garda

SEPT 23 1989

Jester252 wrote: »

I was talking about been married to a garda

Sorry misunderstood you

no amount of money would cover that

joeperry

I've worked in lots of hospitals and they do feck all. Ok cleaning poo ain't the best but it's not hard work.

The Backwards Man

joeperry wrote: »

I've worked in lots of hospitals and they do feck all. Ok cleaning poo ain't the best but it's not hard work.

When it's all over curtains, walls, down the back of radiators, it can be tough enough.

spank_inferno

Teachers receive more ire and that profession is heavily weighted towards women (not a fat joke har-har!)

So criticism of nurses is not likely to be based on misogony.

Ace Attorney

wouldn't say theres a lot of hate towards nurses on boards, if you look at the recent thread about air hostess and nurses not being up to scratch, there was a lot of praise for them and rightly so imo, in general there is a lot of hate towards anyone with a public job on boards, I wouldn't let it bother you tbh

spiritcrusher

joeperry wrote: »

I've worked in lots of hospitals and they do feck all. Ok cleaning poo ain't the best but it's not hard work.

Yeah, that's not all they do at all. They do most of the personal care alright which is absolutely not easy (you have a stroke or major operation and try to get up and dress yourself or walk more than 5 yards to the bathroom straight away, especially hard considering most people in hospital are quite old), they manage meds, monitor status changes of patients (go to an MDT meeting and usually the most info is gained from the nurse), keep track of what each patient has scheduled for the day so things don't overlap and so on. And that's often for each patient on a ward that could have over 20 patients.

I'm also not a nurse but a therapist in rehabilitation so I see a lot of what they do.

Can you provide some examples of this in After Hours?

MonaPizza

K-9 wrote: »

Jaysus, that's the first time misogyny ever crossed my mind as a reason to begrudge nurses.

Tbh most of it seems to be about pay, as with all public sector bashing. Others don't seem to like that they've a pretty good reputation, and many sing their praises after witnessing what they do. Others just seem to belittle them as a vocation.

PAY????

Are people suggesting that nurses are overpaid?

Matt_Trakker

I don't like they way they look at ya...they've seen so much death and pain that they look at you as nothing more than the next body they have to wrap in a bag.....
I see nurses and all I see is death in their eyes and the love of life gone out of them.

K-9

MonaPizza wrote: »

PAY????

Are people suggesting that nurses are overpaid?

The public sector obsessives would. In fairness the OP is on about minority opinions on nurses, which on Boards a lot of the time is attention seeking trolls.