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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?

*am currently in a pud office job*

Thanks for quoting Scripture...makes me feel at home. I also have a BA degree in Biblical Studies and love to find correlation between medicine and Scripture. Much suffering can be avoided if we just did things God's way.

by the way "pud office job"...how can you be a 26yo father of 2 ex-premed? Am I confused or what?

There are several men in my class (granted they are by far still the minority...but it looks like the class is about a fourth men - better than the last place I was at. It had a 14-1 female-male ratio)

They seem to do very well. A big group of them sits together....but then some more of them come and sit with us girls.

However, I think the school needs to get some extra large exam gloves. When we were demonstrating that we could remove them properly - they split on some of the guys! (Hands were too big for the gloves) it was easier for us tiny women - the gloves just slide off our hands really easily - well most of us - but don't get me started on some of the ummm "students" in my class.

Anyway I think it is great when guys go into nursing! Guys can be caring and take care of people too! (My hubby takes wonderful care of me when I am sick! He isn't a nurse though - too scared of needles to even be around them he he he)

Originally posted by berl56

by the way "pud office job"...how can you be a 26yo father of 2 ex-premed? Am I confused or what?

Ive been going to school at night for awhile as a pre-med. I recently decided to go into nursing for my family.. I was wset to go to Northwestern but basically I would have been leaving my family behind..

I am 26 yrs old and have 2 small boys.

I work in phone support as a computer tech, very hard job..

The training was different than medic school looking from the fire transport side wanted to check out the nursing side. My medic went to a transition program and passed. He egg me on until I went. :cool:

Well, The instructors were just as we had thought. Psyco for the Psycology class, most thought manic depressive, one who was an Army Nurse, she made no bones about it in class, was the worst. Everyone one wondered how she got a job teaching students Adult 4. That class was a self-teach class what a waste of time and money. Well here is our class from tampa.

The classroom was a transition from LPN/Paramedic to RN class which was made of 60 students, 9 males, and 51 females. The final count at the end of the year was 7 males and 33 females.

The medics who started the class, 7, completed the course.

The course was tough and fun. The things you could do, from what I saw, was limited being from a medic background, but the IV's were the same. On to continuing Education. :D

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Although I am no student, I can clearly remember back in 1972 how daunting it was being a student, but 31 years on I can look back and be very satisfied with my life as an RN

With the right attitude there is a great time to be had with all the girls, and with the novelty value we have it can be very good.

Also here in Australia, guys tend to climb the career path quickly.

Enjoy.....

Lee

Specializes in CICu, ICU, med-surg.
Originally posted by bluepanjeet

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.....!

I know you weren't talking to me, but I feel the need to chime in. This is a friendly board and I don't really think that Agent meant anything personal with the "crazy" comment. How you managed to move from that to stating that "not all asians are stupid" is beyond me. Let's just try and keep this thread friendly. Thanks.

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