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monsuun

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  1. The same old battle - work vs school! Ughh..

    I guess it's where you work. I'm working as a patient aide, and I told them up front that they take a backseat to college when it comes to priorities. Not only were they fine with that, but they let me tell them which days I was willing to work and...
  2. If not a nurse, then what?

    Short background, I'm a 35-yr old prior cop who has gone through a period of total disability. Now that I'm (mostly) over that, I've decided to go to college and get a degree for something that pays better and is less dangerous. I love the idea of b...
  3. APA Writing Style Resources

    I last went to college about 17 years ago and I don't remember having to use any particular "style" (of course over that long I may have just forgotten). Now I'm going back to college for nursing and there are just a couple of classes I have to take...
  4. Know-it-all nursing students?

    Heh, I had something like that happen. Had a fellow student bragging about his 90 he had made on a test and how he knew he had the highest grade in the class... I let him go on for a couple of minutes then showed him my 98...
  5. The Great Double Standard?

    Wanna hear something funny and kind of related to the subject? Where I'm doing clinicals at, there is a female resident that I felt I had created a bond with. She had told me that I had been more gentle with her than any other CNA or RN she had bee...
  6. nursing care r/t pregnancy termination

    I don't mean to be offensive, but I'm a little tired of attitudes like this. I don't like the idea of abortion at all, but I realize it's probably not going away and I'm sensitive enough to not argue about it (normally) but then I see people all the...
  7. Guys, do you wear your wedding band to work?

    A little off subject, but a funny story. I stopped wearing my ring when I gained over 100 lbs. (In less than a year) due to cancer treatments and the fact that I stopped weightlifting but continued to eat like I was still burning all those calories....
  8. The Great Double Standard?

    I have an awesome solution! If a male or female nurse is PROVEN to have sexually molested someone in their care, shoot them! If someone is PROVEN to falsely accuse someone of sexually molesting them, shoot them! You'd have a whole lot fewer cases o...
  9. Looking for student nurses, male and 50+

    You guys make me feel good, I was worried about a career change at age 35! Thanks, and I'm sure you guys will be great!
  10. Concerns about 'modeling' pictures

    I agree, if we had a link, we could lend our expert opinion... just to be helpful of course, no need to let our wives and girlfriends know, they'd probably misunderstand our well-intentioned desire to assist in the matter!
  11. Young female patients

    I find it funny that I've had major surgery twice and had to have a total of a 2 month stay in hospital care. I was operated on by a female doctor and attended to by numerous female nurses and cna's. Not once did any of them ask if I wanted a male ...
  12. I have to say, when I decided I wanted to become a nurse, the first thought in my mind was "I want to play with the new babies!" (I love babies, wish I could talk my wife into having more of 'em) but when we had our second child I was told by the h...
  13. Genetic Testing is an ethical issue?

    When my wife was tested with our son (10 years ago) we were told he had an extremely high chance of having a serious mental illness (I think it was down syndrome, but don't remember) and the doctor actually advised us to abort. We told him that we w...
  14. Awkward situation

    As a prior cop, I used to see this stuff all the time. People who committed crimes would be mad at the police for catching them, or witnesses for "pointing fingers" at them. They seem to lack the intelligence to realize that they caused their own p...
  15. Non-smokers getting less breaks?

    That's how it was at the last place I worked. An ambitious and mathmatically inclined co-worker found that the smokers were getting (on average) about 2 whole weeks worth of breaks more than the average worker. It was like 8-10 hours every month th...