wje9516

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1. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? (this could be funny)

   wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in Career Support

   I'm in the search and destroy mode, and easing out of it finally, I appreciate your response...you guys have been sooooo much more human than the suits I have been and worked with for twenty years... Bill

2. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? (this could be funny)

   wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in Career Support

   Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, went into Nursing and generally hate most people, sounds a little like me....and scarey too....Would like to hear more about your take on the job market, what awaits the recent grad., did you get this as a second degree...that kinda s...

3. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? Help!!

   wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

   You have to know that no instructor is going to succeed at browbeating you when all you do is look back at them, unaffected, or with measured empathy, (that really undoes them), and just calmly and respectfully stare right through them, with just a h...

4. Do you guys notice this kind of stuff....??

   wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

   I gotta say, you guys are unbelievable with your concern for what is sizing up to a whining poster....me!!!! So its not impossible to enter the Nursing prof. even with some limitations......I might of told me by now to forget it...but I find it, an...

5. Do you guys notice this kind of stuff....??

   wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

   Me? or the last post...? How about this, what if you have a lousy back....flat out lousy...? The kind where you have to bend with your knees constantly, you can't bend over from the waist, you stoop with your knees....kind of back??? And its wie...

6. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? Help!!

   wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

   ...needed the pep talk....you have the perfect background for the field...your degrees and your life experience will really pay off in practice....patients and people in general will sense your sincerity, a hard thing to fake, and giving a %%%% about...

7. Do you guys notice this kind of stuff....??

   wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

   i want you to know that the potentially ethnocentric reference to the insourcing of foreign students, was not meant to be...and i have visited a few of these areas, and would understand motivations for looking beyond my bario etc., it's also interest...

8. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? Help!!

   wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

   What a great response, thoughtful, mature, you know, all that good stuff... what seems to be filtering through here is, from a bunch of responses is a level of maturity, ability to deal with many different personalities, and keeping the unrealistic ...

9. Do you guys notice this kind of stuff....??

   wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

   thanks...that helps, a little more freedom with your feelings on the back deal... you won't hurt my feelings...is that going to be a career killer?> Thanks very much, Bill

10. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? Help!!

    wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, thats helpful...it really does come down to what you put into it..just trying to figure out at this stage of the game, if I have the endurance... Bill

11. Do you guys notice this kind of stuff....??

    wje9516 posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is a continuation of a former question....I have a BS in Finance... Do you guys notice the following...?? Discrimination towards males in Nursing School or on the job, a tendency to view the male nurse as handy forklift?? Also, age discriminati...

12. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? Help!!

    wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be interested in hearing more about this aspect....how bad is the importing, and do you see it really offsetting demand....because they not only are much more compliant and willing to take more crap from anyone, mainly because they were so desper...

13. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? Help!!

    wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I can say that I like you guys just for your interest in responding to what I'm sure is a continuous concern, very mature answers, wow... I grew up with social worker parents, and have always been very uncomfortable in a repetitive black and wh...

14. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? Help!!

    wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in General Nursing

    you make an interesting point, the field is getting a good infusion of diversity, experiencially, ethnically, demographically....which in theory should strengthen it...what's your opinion on the insourcing trends...??? Thanks for responding, not eve...

15. Second Bachelor's.......BSN??? (this could be funny)

    wje9516 replied to wje9516's topic in Career Support

    Thats true, normally discussion boards aren't for happy run of the mill reports, as most of life should be....maybe the questions could all be distilled down to...in your opinion, and by the way, are you full time, how many years, RN, how are men, mo...