Don't go into nursing school if_____

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Fill in the blank with any advice you can give students who have just been accepted into a program or who are thinking about embarking on the journey of nursing school.

Here's mine:

DON'T GO INTO NURSING SCHOOL IF you haven't done your own research about the realities of the profession. Good, bad, truth, and common myths & misconceptions.

Yall's turn!

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

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This is a fun thread and an informative thread for future nursing student...mean to be a tongue in cheek fun thread. While we respect everyone's beliefs.......If you wish to debate/talk religion in nursing please start another thread.

[h=2]Nursing and Spirituality[/h]

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What's "fumunda"? Sounds nasty, but I might just know it by another name. :) Or if when I saw it at work it would make me say, "Great Gawdamighty," should I ask in the spirituality forum? (sorry, Esme, I don't know what got into me. Or came out of me. :) )

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I don't usually disagree with any of the comments in this thread...however, the comments about not going into nursing if you want a social life while in school, or for the money...not true

While in school, I had a good social life, hung out and played xbox like anyone else...and did well in school. So how you handle your free time in school is very individualized, everyone is very different. Some people may not have a life, but many people do have lives, children, jobs, and families.

Also advising people that going into nursing for the money is a bad idea...again not true. If you choose to work the weekends or nights, you can easily double what a weekday person makes, especially if you are an official weekender. My weekender BASE rate was $8 more an hour than the typical weekday RN rate, add $12/hr in night/weekend shift diff and you are good to go. Pick up a shift off the needs list with some OT and you can make twice what others make while working equal or less hours. Also as a weekender I worked 2 nights, off 5 nights. This is in a city that has a lowww cost of living too, so you can easily double your bedside shift salary. In those expensive cities up north, you can make 100k a year at the bedside, but your cost of living up there is higher. I gave that up for a desk and MSN, etc. Brings up my next point of, if you go back to school or further your degree into leadership you can make bank..$200,000 and up a year bank on the CNO levels plus bonuses. It's all in what you're willing to invest in yourself and your career. If you want to complain about working holidays, nights, or weekends...your pay may reflect that. If you don't want to move up the career ladder, your pay may reflect that as well.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Ok...back to fun....:wacky:

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Don't go into nursing school thinking "I'm gonna be an RN, only LPNs, PCAs, and CNAs clean patients, answer call bells, feed patients etc...."

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Specializes in CICU.
What's "fumunda"? Sounds nasty, but I might just know it by another name. :) Or if when I saw it at work it would make me say, "Great Gawdamighty," should I ask in the spirituality forum? (sorry, Esme, I don't know what got into me. Or came out of me. :) )

Since no one has answered, I can tell you what it means (from what I learned in middle school).

I believe it is from the phrase "fromunda cheese". As in "from under". The cheese does not refer to actual cheese. I bet your imagination can take you from here...

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
What's "fumunda"? Sounds nasty, but I might just know it by another name. :) Or if when I saw it at work it would make me say, "Great Gawdamighty," should I ask in the spirituality forum? (sorry, Esme, I don't know what got into me. Or came out of me. :) )
:roflmao:.....I think it is in the category of Fomites!

fumunda: A not-so pleasent aromatic combination of ball sweat and naturally occuring body odor - originating on, around or from under (fumunda) one's testicles

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:roflmao:.....I think it is in the category of Fomites!

fumunda: A not-so pleasent aromatic combination of ball sweat and naturally occuring body odor - originating on, around or from under (fumunda) one's testicles

Lol. It always amazes me what I learn from this site. I love it. I just need to figure out how to use this new information in my life. Im sure it will be an internal dialogue and not verbally expressed. Haha! Not about myself of course since I am a woman and am very hygienic. ;-) Fumunda has many opportunities to be used in the nursing field for sure.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Telemetry, Med-Surg.
Breastfeeding my 5th baby right now. :yes: Breastfed my other four for 1-2 years each while working. Sure I don't pump as often as moms with an office job can, but I can count on one hand the number of times I went an entire shift w/o pumping once. If a patient isn't crumping, this mama is pumping! Things like codes, trips to CT, status changes, post-ops or admissions get priority; things like charting, body fluid dumps, noncritical meds, bed baths can wait for me to go pump.

I follow the same principles w/ eating/drinking/peeing. I mean really, how many things truly cannot wait the two minutes it takes to pee or chug a cup of water??

Just throwing that out there!

That's wonderful.

In my case, I work on a rehab unit where I am primarily alone (no one to relieve me so I can take a break). I can't just leave my patients unattended.

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Specializes in Hospice.
:roflmao:.....I think it is in the category of Fomites!

fumunda: A not-so pleasent aromatic combination of ball sweat and naturally occuring body odor - originating on, around or from under (fumunda) one's testicles

Well, I guess GrnTea wouldn't have found that in the spirituality section. :no:
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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Well I guess GrnTea wouldn't have found that in the spirituality section. :no:[/quote']

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

I've smelled fumunda the other day from a contracted hand; I had to do a skin check and found a small open area...smelled like :eek:

Oh and there is a resident that NEVER showers and is paranoid...her smell went straight to tonsils and trampled all over my throat glands...gagg...

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Specializes in Hospice.
:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

I've smelled fumunda the other day from a contracted hand; I had to do a skin check and found a small open area...smelled like :eek:

Oh and there is a resident that NEVER showers and is paranoid...her smell went straight to tonsils and trampled all over my throat glands...gagg...

Has anybody said not to go to nursing school if you can't handle extremely foul smells?
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