D.C.Guy

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  1. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me!

    Thank you.
  2. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me!

    Thank you guys for the helpful responses. There is a very nice Physical Therapist Assistant program at my community college and I'm applying for it next week. I have done all the prerequisites. Also, I'm applying for the dental hygienist program at t...
  3. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me!

    Money is not the problem, I can always take loans. The issue is that admission my community college is too compititive for me to get in. Imagine that there is only space for 30 new rad students every year, where more than 250 students apply.. I don't...
  4. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me!

    Thank you for the advice. Admission to medical school in my country does not require an undergraduate degree like here in America. You go to medical school immediately after high school. But you have to be the best in your highschool to be accepted i...
  5. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me!

    Thank you guys for all the feedback and support. I never had any problem before with blood, urine, feces, dead bodies, sticking needles, etc.... The problem is that I've never given basic care before. For example, I can handle all the bodily fluids i...
  6. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me

    Thank you all for your feedback. It's greatly appreciated. Today I spoke to my Patient Care Director about my concers that I may not be able to do the job duties, and that I would like her to help me get a different position in the hospital. She offe...
  7. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me!

    Thanx. Great advice.
  8. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me

    How did you get over your initial phase of disgust with being a PCA? This was only my first day. I'm seriously thinking about talking to my manager to see if i can transfer into a different department/ job in the hospital, or even quit the job and lo...
  9. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me

    I'm glad to know that there are some nursing specialties that don't require a lot of the CNA type of work. Can you plz tell me more about other nice nursing specialties, and workplaces for nurses? I appreciate your help. P.S. I noticed that CNAs tend...
  10. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me

    Why would you think so? I'm not sure if I'm right, and I still think I can be a great nurse without liking being a CNA.
  11. Not Sure If Nursing Is For Me!

    Hello everybody, I really need every helpful feedback on this issue. I'm so confused and troubled. I've been dreaming and thinking about being an RN for a long time. I even got hired last month as a PCA. Yesterday was the first day I shadowed a PCA, ...
  12. Hello everybody, I really need every helpful feedback on this issue. I'm so confused and troubled. I've been dreaming and thinking about being an RN for a long time. I even got hired last month as a PCA. Yesterday was the first day I shadowed a PCA, ...
  13. PCA with no Training/Experience

    Thank you guys for the feedback. I've been thinking for the last couple hours about what I should do. And I decided that I will give it a try. Maybe I will just get used to it, and, in the future, it may be easy to do. Today made me reconsider going...
  14. PCA with no Training/Experience

    I only said I was a medical student. I didn't deal with that kind of patients before. Also, I just woke up and I have a great tendency to throw up from what I saw today. Jesus Christ, why in the world would anybody want to do that for a living? can p...
  15. PCA with no Training/Experience

    Hey guys, Today was my first day as a PCA. I can't describe what happened to me or what I felt about it. It was simply the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life. The nastiest thing ever. OMG, I don't know what to do now. I read the job desc...