In my capacity as a nurse at the clinic I work in, I have occasion to teach nursing students nearing graduation from school. They are generally in the next to last rotation before they go into the world as shiny new nurses. I haven't been a nurse so long that I don't remember that feeling of thinking I had learned a lot but not enough. There is an expression: "Student nurse: Just enough information to be dangerous." It's one of those funny/not funny things. You know, like sorry/not sorry?
As I write this, there is a student sitting next to me talking to one of my colleagues and I about routes of transmission. As we are traditionally an HIV clinic, one of the things we ask them is how HIV is transmitted and give HIV education every time. We get four students a week, and without fail, every group of them has at least one student that says "bodily fluids".
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