Wesley wrote:

"Let me see the hands of everyone who wants their medications administed by a "nurse" without a degree....I thought so. While we're at it - why should brain surgeons have a silly degree?? I would think three months in a technical school of some sort would teach them everything they need to know....."

Sorry, but that's a patronising load of old cobblers. See above posting by Spleen Cringe who puts it better than I could.

My RGN (formerly ITU honcho) wife, my RGN sister, and many of my RGN friends have been saving the lives of people like Wesley for many years now, not to mention saving the careers of certain doctors! And for thanks they get....back injuries, stress, physical attacks in casualty wards and elsewhere, endless bumf and increased subscriptions from the professional bodies - and wiseass comments of course.

Nurse - the enema, right now!!