This woman also pretended to be a nurse, but had some complaints...

killer_boots Ding Ding! You will the brilliant award. I echo those sentiments.

SchlingFo....I love Reno 911! farkin' hilarious!

311girle,

I think what makes 911 so good is that the humor's different from most of the other shows out there nowadays.

I also think that'll be its undoing.

woman fakes orgasm for entire marraige... avoids punishment because men don't care

"But her lack of training wasn't noticed until she applied for a management job."

Funny really, i bet it was the fact that she had come through the ranks that they held against her when it came to management.

Most manangers don't know shiat about the jobs they are advising the "grunts" on.

15 years of experiance makes her a nurse if you ask me.

No people. This is wrong. Just because she got away with it doesn't make it right. By saying what she did isn't wrong, you are encouraging others to try the same thing. This woman had to be the exception. Nurses need to be trained.

She must have stayed here.

she is trained... 15 years of frickin on the job training is trained.

FALLOUTBOY - good one!

i always wanted to smack doogie howser though far more of a goody goody nerd than wesley crusher.

i gaurantee you that she got better training on the job than any school could ever teach her

Phelpsbomb,

Just because she got away with it doesn't make it right. By saying what she did isn't wrong, you are encouraging others to try the same thing.

I agree and disagree with this. This woman knew her job, and she was a good nurse. So, in that aspect, what she did wasn't wrong.

However, she did circumvent established training requirements, which is wrong.

However, to say that she's the exception isn't really accurate. This is a LOT more common than you'd think. People get nailed quite often for impersonating doctors and nurses, and usually the patients have no complaints.

And, speaking as someone who's starting med school next year, I'd rather be in the care of an old country woman than a nurse fresh out of school. Training counts, but not nearly as much as experience.

No, I'm not saying this nurse isn't trained. I would say that after 15 years she is a perfectly qualified nurse. It was the first few years where I would be worried about. Do you want to send the message that you can preted to be a nurse as long as you are good at it?

Reminds me of the "serial" bus driver. The guy who often dressed up in uniform, went to the Bus depot and tried to do the job for free. He got arrested several times.

Phelpsbomb,

It was the first few years where I would be worried about.

If she didn't know her shiat for the first 6 months-1 year on the job, she would've been fired. It's not really a job where you can fake your way through it. You can't "Kramer" your way through board meetings, so to speak.

She knew what she was doing, regardless of the formal training she had.

Do you want to send the message that you can preted to be a nurse as long as you are good at it?

Here is where you and I differ. I believe that she was a nurse in the truest sense.

A person can have a nursing degree, but if they're an insensitive shiat who's horrible with patients, I wouldn't consider them to be a nurse. They're a person with a nursing degree.

I'll have my chemistry degree in may, but I won't really consider myself to be a chemist. I think my degree means that I'm now qualified to learn to be an actual chemist, if I so choose.

I think the same thing applies with just about anything. The formal education brings you up to a speed where you're ready to actually learn how to do the job. Obviously, this woman didn't need the formal education to learn how to be a nurse.

Not that there's anything wrong with pretending to be a nurse:

St.Alfonso, Mackeral-97's nurse is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
much nicer.

Yes, but mine's sluttier.

Shlingfo, the "undoing" of Reno 911! like you said will be that few people understand this type of comedy. However, I'll enjoy it while it lasts. Reno 911! and Super Troopers, god it's fun to laugh at cops!

311girle, love you Bio. Any hope of escaping? ;)

Didn't read the article yet. Was her name, by chance, Annie Wilks? Anyone understand the reference?

Ok, that's creepy. She wasn't, but the author's name was strangely close.

That was farked up, man.

Phelpsbomb
Look at it from this perspective. Being a nurse means an accredited organization says you passed an exam and underwent a specific amount of training.

Being good at it means you provide qualified care to people in need.

Which is more important?

Years ago, you could become a doctor, lawyer, or just about any professional with no formal training as long as you passed the exam, which was usually an on-the-job observation by an expert in the field. These days its more important to have spent $250,000 to get a piece of paper that says you can do what your senior peers are far more qualified to judge.

She was not a fake. She obviously gave incredible care.

I heard that you were felling ill.
Headache, fever, and a chill.
Well, don't you worry cause you're in luck
Cause I'm the nurse who love to fark!

/Ferris Buller's Day Off

No one complained becuase she was the "head" nurse...

Hmm...

Hmm...

Strike 2

Third attempt

Are you sure that it wasn't this woman?

PhaetonGrim, yes I hope to escape as soon....I probably need my passport renewed to get out of this place.

P.S. looked at your bio, you look like the actor off of Clockwork Orange (great movie, gotta love Stanley Kubrick)

Paging Dr. Abagnale. Dr. Abagnale to OR Three.

And The Sun is there...

She may have lots of on the job training, but she should have never been hired in the first place. You can't just produce a certificate and say you got your degree. Here in the U.S., your name has to be listed with the state dept. of health. I'm a nurse's assistant and even I have to be on that registry. Perhaps the UK doesn't check people out as thoroughly.

But that castration article described circumstances that arose in Pennsylvania. And as far as I'm aware, the NHS doesn't have any hospitals in Pennsylvania.

Doh! I was addressing Bambi :)

We have a couple of engineers here at work who don't even have bachelor's degrees, but they are some of the best designers in the world. They worked their ways up and learned it on the job. As long as she passed the licensing exam, who cares if she has a degree. The exam is supposed to be thorough enough to weed out the idiots. As long as she is good at giving injections and taking your blood pressure, and knows when to call the doctor in, who cares?

...chiefs launched a huge probe, blowing hundreds of thousands of pounds...

...I just couldn't get past that statement.

True Story:

Ex girlfriend wanted to be a nurse. She was going to school for it. Somehow I was involved in a conversation and the word "lobotomy" and "brain" came up. She proceeded to say "Lobotomy has nothing to do with the brain, stupid"

/omg...

Eyesonlyus

Who on earth is that? I recognize her, but I can't say where...

Eyesonlyus:

I think I just figured out who that is. Let me say one word and tell me if I'm right: Haley

311girle, I'm just very cynical about people, and without going into a lenghty (and probably really boring) dissertation about the movie, I just loved the story. I actually loved the movie more than the book, since the book in the end showed a resolution that negated alot of the darkness to the whole story.... ah well. Little late for this thread.