Do you think most of nurses out there actually wanted to be doctores but couldnt handle the hard studying and.

Question

working or isnt smart enough to become a doctor?

Answer 1

There are a few wannabe's, but most nurses want to do just that - be a nurse.  It's a totally different profession from being a doctor.

If you talk to older nurses who practiced nursing before it turned in a documentation-fest, you'd hear about how they spent a lot of time really caring for patients' needs and getting to know them.  It was a different world.

Answer 2

Absolutely not. The fields are two totally separate things for people with two separate wants.

Doctors and nurses work together, a doctor is not a nurses boss, and a nurse is not a doctor who couldn't cut it. A doctor examines the patient, diagnoses, and then writes the order so the patient can get better, and then moves on to the next patient. This is when the patient is handed off to the nurse, who actually does the caring for of the patient. The administering of the RX medicine, dressing changes, watching your vitals, even holding your puke bucket.

Nursing is a very hard, demanding, and THANKLESS job, and they work just as hard, if not harder, than a doctor does. No offense to the doctors, but I've never seen a Dr. sit on the side of a bed holding a bucket for a young woman to vomit in, and I've never seen a Dr. consoling an elderly woman who just wet the bed for the first time and doesn't know why her body has turned against her, I've never seen a doctor work until 4 am in the Telemetry ward, answering call lights and fetching water and changing the washcloths of people with fevers, and I've never seen a doctor put on gloves and change the dressing of a man with MRSA to the foot, all while casually discussing the weather.  

And nurses do, in fact, go to school. A LOT of school. It takes anywhere from 1-2 years to get your LPN, 2-4 years to get your RN, and then upwards from there if you want to get your Nurse Practitioner's liscense (which does everything a doctor does, even writes perscriptions) or Midwife.

In short, Doctor's take care of the disease, nurses take care of the people. And to hint that people are 'settling' for nursing because they are lazy, or dumb or just can't hack the hard work, is very insulting, indeed.

Answer 3

No.  I've known a lot of nurses in my life, and none of them wanted to be doctors.  I've also taught a lot of medical students, and don't believe nursing students aren't just as smart.

Answer 4

I love the previous poster's answer, but in fact there are some nurses who are frustrated physicians -- I have worked with some, and they are a PITA because they tend to second-guess the physician and act holier-than-thou and not do the less glamorous jobs that nursing requires. It usually is not a question of intelligence, more of a question of the person lacking the discipline it takes to achieve the high grades as an undergrad and failing to win acceptance into a medical school. Interestingly, I have had more than a few docs comment that they really do not enjoy the practice of medicine and think that nursing would be more aligned with their personalities. But, they are excellent doctors in any event.