The Guys Club: Guy Students Come on In!

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Hi All!

I'm a crazy father of 2 ex-premed who just recently turned down Northwestern to go into a RN program.

I already have an Associate in Science, but I'll be getting another ADN and then go to a 4 yr school.

When I went to an info session about the RN program ill be trying to get into, out of like 70 ppl only 5 were guys.

So I want to know are there any men out there?

I fully anticipate to be called on often for "guy" things like that.

edit>> Looks like we've been noticed.

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3. MALE NURSING STUDENTS - "THE GUYS CLUB"

Several male nursing students on the allnurses.com Bulletin Board have

started their own group where they can share their stories as a

minority

in their programs. They come from all walks of life and you may find

their stories as to what brought them into nursing interesting. Or you

may be a male nursing student wishing to participate.

Visit: https://allnurses.com/t41581.html

Hehe! nice to see we've been spotted!!!!!!

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it doesn't mean that u always post here, you can give any comments that you like.... be professional enough to accept that members here have different opinions, different backgrounds and different nationalities... if you think that other people's compliments are crazy then i think its better for you to shut up and let other say what they wanted to say....this post is created solely for that purpose...and even you cannot have the right to give sarcastic comments specially on other people's compliments.

i can imagine how agent blahblahblah discriminizes asians in the hospital. well buddy, to tell you honestly your very offending, and somebody should tell you that PROFESSIONALLY! Not all asians are stupid as you think they are.....!

Hey listen, if yu want to be a nurse then yu can't be that bloody sensitive or i'm tellin yu yu won't last very long in the profession. the amount of crap that yu have to take from people and patients alike would make yu change career directions if yu didn't let it all way over yur head!!!!! yu are really gonna have pull in yur horns and relax!

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Danny,

That's great. What stage of the nursing program are you in now?

Tony,

This is my first semester in the MSN Entry Program. The first half of the program is accelerated format. The second half is the master's portion. It's a 3-year program, but we will get our RN license after a year and a half. We've started our clinical last month. So far I really like it. However, we have so much work to do this semester. I just can't wait for the semester to be over so I can breathe. My next semester starts on January 3rd. We also have a full semester length summer school.

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Specializes in ICU, Cardiac Cath/EPS Labs.
My suggestion - if you have a semester before you begin - take pharmacology and pathophysiology and get them out of the way while you have time. If you take these in advance then when your BSN program begins, you will be able to focus on your clinical, your labs, your health assessment, your nursing skills, and on mental health or whatever your main nursing theory class is. Actually at my school, they will not let you into the accelerated BSN program unless you have already done these.

Patho is a tough class with text books that are dense (our school uses the McCance & Huether "Pathophysiology" text) and concept mapping that is a pain in the gluteus maximus. If you can't find a class for these locally then you can take patho and pharm online from places such as http://www.canyoncollege.edu/, https://courses.pnhs.purdue.edu/, or http://www.learn.maine.edu/.

If you don't want to do a class in advance online then let me point out the "Made Incredibly Easy" books. You can make your patho class much less painlful to ease into if you buy and read "Fluids and Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy" and "Pathophysiology Made Incredibly Easy" - although read the F&E first.

You can make the pharmacology / nursing connection more readily if you buy and read "Nursing Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy." (Nb. Do not buy the "Clinical Pharmacology Made Incredibly Easy" - this is a subset of the Nursing Pharm Made Incredibly Easy and it lacks all the nursing diagnoses. It is the nursing diagnoses in this book that make it gold when it comes to doing assignments in Pharm).

Also, there is an idiotic Nursing Entrance Exam they are making people take now. This test is truly annoying. You have to do 10 questions on long division, 10 on multiplication, 10 on fractions, 10 on decimal points, 10 on percentages, ten on simple algebra and I think ratios might have been there too. Apart from that it is just psych questions and a speed reading test. A good book for reviewing what will be in this test is "Calculate with Confidence" by Deborah Morris - the first five or six chapters. This is a text written for the dosage calculation class that you'll have to take during your first or second semester. It is not a test review book - but the first six chapters will give you all you need to know for the test I think (except for the algebra). Unless the test has changed!

Good luck. The accelerated programs are demanding. Very doable if you have your life organized.

NurseMac :)

NurseMac,

Thanks for your helpful message--I just read it--for some reason, the website didn't notify me that you had responded to my message. I guess I can't rely on being notified and have to check back in each forum I'm interested instead of just scanning topic titles (FYI, I was going to also send this to you directly, but your profile indicates that you prefer no direct e-mail)...Anyway, the Accelerated BSN in NY would take just 15 months from start to finish and allow me to immediately start working under a temp permit as I await the RN-Exam results...Accelerated Msn would take significantly longer--at least 30 months...also, if I get the BSN now, I can always pursue the MSN at night while working as an RN AND THEN be eligible to have my employer pay the tuition...Columbia (and NYU, I believe) have accelerated Masters in NYC but they are very expensive and apparently, nursing is UNlike law in that the pedigree of the school is not such a factor in obtaining jobs/promotions...Thanks for the tips re: taking some courses before the program starts---the school had mentioned that this was a possibility in at least one course, but I will check out all the subjects you mentioned...Just got my application in this week--very early--as I'd like to find out if I'm accepted so I can plan accordingly, e.g., apply elsewhere if need be...otherwise, start taking an early course or more...Thanks again and sorry I just saw your messages.

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.

20 year old BSN student here. Finish this sem and I got three more to go. :D

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LOL.......You guys on this group are hilarious, see now I missed my Microbiology class reading some of your responses. But I am darn happy right now that there are male nurses and nursing students out there who can relate with me. My usual class start with the discussion of the lastest fashion of loui vaton or nail design by tammy taylor. But i can't complain, my social life has improved by 100% and I am learning more on how to handle woman. All of this while learning the Fundermentals of the Nursing Science. I would like to make a request out there to encourage you males to come and study Nursing at the College of the Bahamas, which campus can beat a veiw like ours? On top of it, you are getting THE BEST NURSING EDUCATION AROUND! (No diss to all of you attending other schools), but you know how it is....gotta big up ya crew!!!. Anyway i think i have wrote enough, keep up the good work guys and remain encouraged and focused, deciding to venture into Nursing will be the best decision you have made in your entire life! I'M OUT!

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Specializes in FNP/Acute Care.

I'm shifting fields because I don't have the funds or the interest to stay in stride with the tech sector (certs. etc.). Also because it's not a viable enough career field.. I can't stand worrying about my job and it will be outsourced/illiminated.

Nursing looks like it'll prove to be far more satisfying to me, with a more meaningful sense of accomplishment at the end of the day.

I also like the idea, that if I want to move to where ever, I can take my job with me.

-j

Yea it's actually interesting how many of us have come from a computer background! i'm gonna start a lil poll, if yu changed from a computer background, Why did yu?

For me it was beacause i wanted something extra from a job! and i've always wanted to go into the healthcare profession, so idecided it was time to go for it!!!! how bout yu guys?

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Specializes in FNP/Acute Care.

I /wish/ I was doing my prehealth in ireland.. heh

-j

hey heres another male!!!! i'm doing a pre nursing here in ireland, small group, only 6 but i'm the only guy! yu can have a bit of fun with the women though!!! still nice to see a few males on the site! i was feeling knida intimidated!!!!
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I grad in 7 days/ or 21 hours from San Antonio college ADN

Our Class is 140 and about 20 are men.

I am an 6yr LVN and see about a 10-15% male staff in our hospital. Most of the male employees are in ancillary services RT PT Tech patho ect....with lots of them taking advantage of our hospital program to pay for RN education in exhange for 3 years service.

I love the science. If you know your patho and your pharm then you will always know what to do..just think it out...fast....its like race car driving ...takes skill and thinking fast.....

I love it.....even after 6 yrs.

I think some of the ladies just whine too much about having to work hard under difficult conditions.... guys thrive in this setting....sorta like a war zone....or football....or team volleyball:)

aint all yall girls doing that but you know the ones i talking about....sheesh you'd think some of these girls were thinking this was a TV show or something.:coollook:

nursing is high tech hardwork for really smart people with real lives in the balance....

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Don't be so narrow minded, they don't just talk about hair and nails, they talk about shopping too.

Paul.

hey

I'm 18 and Im starting the NEPS program in a few weeks (Nursing Education program of Saskatchewan)

I'm taking 4 year course, then working in the ER or as a Perioperative RN for a few years, then I plan to continue my education with a little experience behind me and become a Nurse Practitioner :)

I'm glad to see so many guys on this board. I am totally FREAKED out that I will be alone in my nursing classes (we have 250 seats, only 12 are guys) and I don't want to sit by myself everyday because I don't want to talk about hair or nails.

Hopefully I'll meet some girls who watch CFL lol. I'm sure there are going to be plenty of people in the my classes that I'll get along with.

Good luck to everyone.

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Hey Guys,

Glad to see this thread here. I am a first year Nursing student, formerly an HCA, a ratio of 8 to 90 doing diploma Nursing training at uni.

Do all you guys get the following situations happening.

*** slapping by female Healthcare professionals?

References to 'you've got a big strong man washing you today, doris/ethel/winifred, aren't you lucky!

A dangerous feeling of dread and forboding at certain times of the month in wards.

Will buy you all a beer at some point.

Paul.:coollook:

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i wonder if it lets you say orifice?

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