Darjeeling22

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1. Is nursing your second career?

   Darjeeling22 replied to LeLeeFNP's topic in General Nursing

   BA in theatre, three years working in professional theatre and then six years working in adult literacy and ESL -- started as an educator, moved into administration. Now in second year of an ADN program. I do miss the arts and education sometimes, b...

2. Going by your middle name -- problematic?

   Darjeeling22 replied to Darjeeling22's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks all, I appreciate the replies.

3. Going by your middle name -- problematic?

   Darjeeling22 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello everyone, Looking for licensed nurses in a similar situation. My parents decided, for whatever reason, to bring me up using my middle name instead of my first. I can't think of any time in 30+ years that I've gone by my first name; my middle n...

4. Nursing Student Assessment Worksheet

   Darjeeling22 replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Students

   This is fantastic! I'm going to point the others in my class towards this post, and I'll definitely be downloading any others you come up with. Thank you VERY much.

5. Losing motivation to study, any tips??

   Darjeeling22 replied to Newbiestudent18's topic in General Nursing

   I'm about to start my second semester as well. Coming from an education background, I've found that it helps me to absorb material if I explain it to someone else. I have two other people in my class that get together once or twice a week, and we co...

6. How to ace an interview and get hired if you're a new graduate with no experience?

   Darjeeling22 replied to willowRN's topic in General Nursing

   I was a recruiter and assistant hiring manager for several years. This was a non-medical company, but much of what advice I'd give is universal when trying to get a job. I second, third, and fourth the person who said to know the organization. A ...

7. How to find volunteer work on Christmas Day

   Darjeeling22 replied to GoodNP's topic in General Nursing

   Very hard to find volunteer things on Christmas Eve/Day here as well. The closest soup kitchen open then is over 300 miles away. The local Hospice organization has been the only place so far that has said they might be able to use a volunteer over th...

8. Does it bother you when someone wants to be a nurse just for the money?

   Darjeeling22 replied to KhloRN2be's topic in General Nursing

   As something of a flipside. I'm 30 year old career changer, unmarried, no children, minimal debt. A classmate in my final pre-req last year informed me that I should be ashamed of myself, trying to take a job away from someone with a family who real...

9. Patients and the race card

   Darjeeling22 replied to CanadaEh's topic in Relations

   I didn't particularly get "anti-white" as a subtext in the first replies, either. I had to ask for clarification myself because I've heard the term "play the race card" used in a second sense: When someone assumes to have an automatic rapport with so...

10. Patients and the race card

    Darjeeling22 replied to CanadaEh's topic in Relations

    Gracious, I explained about this.

11. Patients and the race card

    Darjeeling22 replied to CanadaEh's topic in Relations

    I'm not sure who Kanye is, so the comparison's unfortunately lost. I really don't, however, see a line between a long-weary struggle with racial identity and whether people are stupid or not. I'm in major agreement with what Julian Bond said in 1999...

12. Patients and the race card

    Darjeeling22 replied to CanadaEh's topic in Relations

    Most successful?

13. Patients and the race card

    Darjeeling22 replied to CanadaEh's topic in Relations

    To highlight that racial back-and-forth isn't solely a black and white (pardon the pun) issue.

14. Patients and the race card

    Darjeeling22 replied to CanadaEh's topic in Relations

    If that is what the OP means, I've got this to say -- and I say it not as a nurse (I'm a student), but as a human being. I live in an area whose population has shocked me at times with blatantly negative attitudes. Not only in regards to race (there ...

15. Patients and the race card

    Darjeeling22 replied to CanadaEh's topic in Relations

    What exactly do you mean by the 'race card'? Call me obtuse. But as a "minority" (I detest that term) myself, I don't want to assume that I know what this means to someone else.