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Vaccines work (lemy.lol)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Even Nurses with a bachelor's degree have a very light core science foundation. They take Biology for Health Sciences 1 and 2 instead of the Biology 1, 2, 3, and 4 that biology majors take. I had a nurse ask me if creatinine had a "nice little abbreviation" like Sodium (Na) and Magnesium (Mg).... Creatinine isn't an element on the periodic table so no, it doesn't. It is lots of C's H's O's and probably some N's. I had another nurse ask me to explain saturation. Nurses sent cookies to the lab (a "dirty zone") in the same carrier tubes that hold sputum, blood, urine, and stool. Then they were confused on why we threw the cookies away and scolded them for the unsafe practice. Their education prepares them for the job of nursing not research scientist.