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There's a level of education and skills called a, "registered nurse," or RN.
There are jobs that require that level of education and skill.
There are also jobs that require that level of education, but not that level of skill. These jobs can be performed by people with much lower levels of education, but have been banned from this job by the license and credential requirements.
Thus, a CNA trained person was able to perform a RN required job successfully enough to earn a promotion because the skills needed for the job were obtained through the education and training a CNA gets. This was illegal because you need an RN to get the job and they lied about their qualifications.
Do you fuckwits understand now?
I know what an RN does.
I know there's lots of jobs in medicine that don't require an RN to DO the job, but do require an RN to GET the job.
If you think that license requirement means that lower levels of education cannot do the job you're the ignorant fools, not I. To listen to some of you, no lives have ever been saved by an uncredentialed bystander who knew how to do first aid.
It's not a difficult concept.
Citing jobs and tasks that actually require the full set of RN skills does not refute my point at all.
They way you're citing it, though, convinces me more and more that the medical profession is not particularly well educated and is primarily concerned with gatekeeping rather than treating patients.
Plus your comments have been refuted by people I know in meatspace who are definitely credentialed as RN's, vs your imaginary existence and claims in the comments on a blog.
And with this, the Aesop Flying Monkey Entertainment Network is signing off.
Regular programming will resume.
Try it as: I am convinced "more and more that the 'engineering' profession is not particularly well educated and is primarily concerned with gatekeeping rather than 'building products that actually work'".
ReplyDeleteI have worked for some incredible engineers across a range of industries, but I have worked for far too many engineers whose only talent was putting together a Power Point presentation.
Just my two cents...
You are not just whistling Dixie here.
DeletePlus there's too many engineers who are forced to design to make a product easy for the overpaid union workers to assemble rather than be a good product.
It is not only the union workers; a lot of it in the defense sector is driving up the cost, since most contracts are cost plus(despite the press releases that say that the project finances are under control)
DeleteI was tasked on one project to add bolt on "armor" plate to a large enclosure. some 15 feet by 12 feet by 10 feet. Instead of larger plates, all one or two sizes, there were over a hundred plates on each surface, each a different shape, and with varying screw sizes and lengths. That 1/16", 3/32", and 1/4" "armor" is really going to stop anti-ship missiles.../sarc
Each plate was low grade aluminum, of varying thickness, and required separate 3D CAD models and drawings. I spent almost a year doing this, with an average of 60 hours a week, and my rate is pretty high.
Multiply this across the industry, and one gets talking real money.
As an aside, I have to give Northrup Grumman an atta-boy for their B-21 design. Outstanding engineering work and design. I really wanted to work on the avionics, but my wife had just been diagnosed with cancer, and I wanted to support her. NG showed how it can be done; ahead of time, under budget, and exceeding requirements.(She was treated and still alive and well 5 years later.)
Another example of "gatekeeping" is the way they limit how many MDs and DOs enter the field by keeping the number of "accredited" medical schools low. Hence the existence of medical schools outside the US that cater to students who want to be doctors but can't get into a US medical school.
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