It just isn't fair

LADYFLOWER · Jul 7, 2006

I'm confused....are you seriously knocking the people that took it slow in order to get better grades?? What possible difference should it make how long someone takes getting the prereqs out of the way?!

Co-signing your comment! I totally agree with ya!

I will be only taking 3 prereqs per semester. I think it's good that some people take it a little easy and don't overwhelm themselves with a full load when they are beginning college. Everyone has their own pace.

chadash · Jul 7, 2006

Whether you get into it for the money, or a desire to help others: the test of a good nurse is not in what prompted your decision to go into nursing.

If you have the aptitude (you better be pretty sharp!), a great work ethic, and the ability to empathize with others....and I would add dedication to your career, and continual learning.

chadash · Jul 7, 2006

Excuse my grammar please~

Sheri257 · Jul 7, 2006

To the people that are predicting the future opinions for others:
Who's to say they're going to think they aren't paid enough to do this job once they start actually start doing the job. Not everyone thinks their pay is crappy, even after they've seen firsthand how hard it is.
:stone

Fine ... I won't try to predict the opinions of others. :rolleyes:

But it is a fact that nursing salaries have barely kept up with inflation over the last 25 years. Maybe people won't think that's crappy, but it ain't great either.

:uhoh3:

WDWpixieRN, RN · Jul 8, 2006

Fine ... I won't try to predict the opinions of others.
But it is a fact that nursing salaries have barely kept up with inflation over the last 25 years. Maybe people won't think that's crappy, but it ain't great either.

Well, all I can is that in the last 6 years of my employment in IT, salaries haven't kept up either....we have averaged 2 - 3% raises, IF we even got that....I believe there were 2 years that NO raises were given....salaries were restructured this year so I am no longer in the MINUS quartile for my title, but only barely....and I don't have many work options to allow me to make changes.....

vamedic4, EMT-P · Jul 8, 2006

When I attended nursing school in the late 80s, I was exactly the type of person you describe Tigress. Unmotivated to truly do it because I "cared", I was more interested in the end result and perhaps too the financial rewards that it would bring ( I would have been an RN at the tender age of 20.)

I had the wrong mindset and completely missed out on what "nursing" was truly about. To me, as a 17 year old nursing student, it was all making beds and wiping butts, and that was not my idea of a good time.

Unfortunately that's all I saw it as. I couldn't imagine myself doing anything like what I was learning in nursing school on a routine basis.

What a difference 18 years makes.

So as a former slacker who couldn't cut it - I apologize to those who could have used my spot for the betterment of others.

To those of you who are working hard toward your nursing degree and subsequent licensure - thank you.

vamedic4

sfaoldguy · Jul 9, 2006

I actually have the fear of not getting into nursing school because I am an older student with a spotted collegiate record... My grades have most always been decent, but I did not have the maturity to ever finish...

My brother's experience gives me hope and maybe it will others also... He was denied into the nursing program because of his GPA but he wrote them a letter and said that if anyone dropped out to please give him a call and they would not be sorry... Well, someone did drop out and they called him... He ended up raising his GPA to a 3.7 by the time he got his BSN... He went on to graduate school and only made a single B and the rest A's in his masters program at UT...

If you get passed up, write them a letter expressing your sincerity and willingness to take someone elses place if they drop out... Just may work for you...

Good Luck,

John