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1. Male nursing students/nurses

   thegame replied to krebs.cycle's topic in General Nursing

   I have been nursing for 3 years now, and am currently looking at leaving the profession over the next two years. I am not leaving nursing due to the nature of the work or being a male nurse in a female dominates profession. Reason number one is t...

2. 7.5% Male; 4 % Fem new nurses dropped out of nursing within four years of graduation

   thegame replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

   Everyone is taking my message wrong. I don't care if you are MSN, BSN, AD, diploma nurse. One of the biggest post on here is about how nurses get paid so poorly compared to other professions. But other professions require at least a bachlors degr...

3. 7.5% Male; 4 % Fem new nurses dropped out of nursing within four years of graduation

   thegame replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

   I think within the next 5 years that all nurses should be required to gradaute with a BSN. This in the long run could give good reason to bring up salires or ask for more money. Hopfeully within the next 10 years a MSN will be an requirment for new...

4. 7.5% Male; 4 % Fem new nurses dropped out of nursing within four years of graduation

   thegame replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

   I spoke abuot this last week. Only12% of nurses out there are under the age of 30. You think the nursing shortage is bad now, wait another 10 years. Our normal class size our junior year is normally 35, we started out only with 27. When we graduat...

5. 7.5% Male; 4 % Fem new nurses dropped out of nursing within four years of graduation

   thegame replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

   Ah Ha, Does this sound fimiliar. You know one of my reasons. It seems strange how nurses leave the profession. Espically young nurses. One would not see other professionls jumping ship such as, lawers, accountants, engineers, etc, etc. There i...

6. I think nurses share some of the blame for the nursing shortage.

   thegame replied to thegame's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks Acnorn for covering for me. What brough up this subject was a recent article in the New York Times. They stated that only 12% of all nurses are below the age of thiry. I began thinking, why is there very few nurses entering the profession o...

7. I think nurses share some of the blame for the nursing shortage.

   thegame replied to thegame's topic in General Nursing

   Hey, I want to clear my name. I did not abandone any patients my first night. I did no get report or even touch a patient my first night. My preceptor did not even show up for her shift for some unknow reason. I sat at the nurses station for two...

8. I think nurses share some of the blame for the nursing shortage.

   thegame replied to thegame's topic in General Nursing

   It is great to see that there are RN's out there that had better experinces than me. I looking from the prosepctrive as a professional with a four year degree. Do yo see physicians, pharmisist, physical thearpist treat each other without respect. ...

9. I think nurses share some of the blame for the nursing shortage.

   thegame posted a topic in General Nursing

   I read recently that only 12% of all nurses are under the age of 30. Being a new graduate BSN and practicing nursing for 18 months, I found that statistic pretty horrifying. I have been visiting this site for about three months now and various nurs...