We also have bachelor’s programs for nursing that’s essentially an administrative add-on to RN training, with some other advanced nursing training as well.

do these nurses remain at bedside after finishing the bachelor?

But as far as the kind of patient you’d deal with, nobody can completely avoid aging patients, and trying to only see non overweight patients is both iffy and weird.

I don’t have a problem seeing and giving advice to the ageing patient, his DPA (durable power of attorney) or to an overweight patient. What I have a problem with is washing and moving the overweight patient that’s more dead weight than anything else, because I don’t know how ratios are where you work at, but where I am most of the times I have to do that alone. And then I’m the one taking ibuprofen or calling in sick because my back hurts.

Something similar happens with dementia patients: doctors have it easy because they enter the orders for antipsychotics and neuroleptics but don’t get to be punched, repeatedly insulted or sexually assaulted by the demented patient.

And this is something I don’t want to happen to me regularly. I can work as a PA with demented patients, not as a nurse.

you’re only naive if you think you can escape drama lol

now at least I know what kind of stupid nonsense awaits me if I do this.

thanks for posting.

You can expect different drama, maybe not less. I can’t say what specifically would be the case in Germany. In the US it’s mostly about balancing patient care with paperwork, and battling insurance companies.

I think this is a drama I can live with. What I meant with drama is gossip among the nurses: who had sex with whom, who has how many children, who said what about somebody else… something I hate with a burning passion.

Maybe I’m naive? I still find this bureaucratic drama easier to survive than my current coworkers.