I'm in nursing school right now, which really doesn't make much sense to me. I'm competent and I'm making good grades, but all around me are people who make me think, "if I needed a nurse, would I want it to be one of these people?" The answer is a definite no. There's the political impresario who has weaseled her way into the position of class president. I have spent countless times trying to mentally picture her inserting a catheter and all I get is the image of her leading a revelutoinary coup. Next, we have the aspiring "street pharmacist". I really hope that I don't have to say more. When confronted by the knowledge that we had a cheater in our midst, he commented, " I wouldn't trust a nurse if they had to cheat their way through nursing school" How much more so a person who steals my prescribed pain meds for their street value? What do I know? I'm a dirty hippy who doesn't believe in exercise. I'm in it for the big bucks. How's that for quality of care? Maybe you could ask the chick sitting next to me; if she wasn't so busy writing song lyrics and planning how fast she's going to make her first million.