Dude, you are wound up a little too tight. Every other comment from you is slamming someone for not being unprofessional. If someone doesn't have a vent/release/prank, they are gonna go postal.
If you knew me, you would think otherwise. However, the jokes should not involve your patients, safety gear or food. Outside of that, enjoy but it need to be done not while in the public eye, not driving, and not on scene.
Every other profession has their jokes and pranks too, I get that, I have done many great ones myself...but there is a time or place for everything.
It is people like me who care about the job, trying to make it a professional organization, trying to elevate wages and standards of living that is constantly beat back down by the "hey man, you are a tight ***...just relax" crowd. But those people will be the same one's complaining they have no respect or have low wages and can't support their families, blah blah blah.
And I get so tired of hearing about how we need releases...hear this: EVERYONE in EVERY job gets stressed and deals with BS and needs a release. Are the stressors the same? No, they aren't, but they ARE stressors none the less and it is how we choose as people to deal with them that makes the difference.
Being EMS or Fire gets us no special pass on life's adventures and stress. Are you saying because we are pranksters that is why it is called "going postal" and not "going EMS"? So maybe if the USPS played more jokes they would never have had those work place shootings and acts of violence which coined the term "going postal" probably before you were born.
But then there have been many similar outbreaks, EMS places of work included yet the going postal term has endured...so maybe your theory is flawed.
Just maybe, if we eliminated the hero complex that we drill into student's brains, maybe if we eliminated a student's way of thinking that it is funny/cool to torture a patient, then just maybe we can move forward as a profession and also educate people on how to have balance in their work, so they will seek proper vents/releases and not go postal.
For the record, what set me off in my response was the fact that it was a STUDENT who made the joke and laughed about shoddy patient care and did not see anything wrong with that. If you personally think a student has the right to be taught poor patient practices and has the right to laugh and think they are acceptable "within the club" which will allow him to continue to do those practices over the years and teach others, then you have no business in my profession.
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