I thought I would share with you my experiences as a straight, white, non-political, low 30's - male in nursing. To avoid doxxing myself, I'll just say that I'm in a top 10 student getting my NP. I want to be very clear, I'm not saying men shouldn't go into nursing, I am saying you should understand what you're getting yourself into. Also, these are just my experiences and you could have a totally different experience.
I have an undergraduate in computer science and completed an ABSN program because I thought I'd like to work with people. The actual nursing portion of my program was great; fundamentals, pharmacology, and pathophysiology are all important classes to master. Unfortunately these courses represented a minority of the coursework. The majority of the coursework was spent essentially preaching socialism to us under the veneer of "community health" and "ethics". Now I get it, I was a little order when I went into nursing and I have a different perspective. But every single community health or ethics class was about how evil capitalism is and how there should be a government program for everything. Full disclaimer, I voted for Hilary Clinton twice and politics isn't my thing. The bias was so overwhelming and they didn't even try to hide it. I realize that socialism / communism is fashionable with the younger crowd, but I wish I would have learned about actual community health or ethical issues in nursing.
Race Issues. Yet another disclaimer, race couldn't mean less to me. We had several lectures and guest seminars from prominent people in campus leadership tell us that it wasn't possible to racist against white people because white people have all the power. It was just ironic because that statement came from a dean at an IVY league school that is a person of color. We had a few students that were obsessed with race. We would be learning about cardiac issues and the medications that you use to treat the conditions. For those that don't know, African Americans typically don't respond well to Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) and are typically placed on calcium channel blockers. This one girl in class went on about how it was systemic racism and prior experiences being a slave that causes African Americans to have poor cardiac health. The professor went along with it.
To summarize my ABSN experience, I learned that it was never the patients fault for their own poor outcome. The poor outcome was entirely due to being oppressed because of their race or sex; or there isn't a government program available for them to utilize. The lack of a government program to help afford a generic medication that costs less than $5/90 day supply is probably due to racism.
I'll post about my experience in NP school later, but as a male I'd be aware of the following before I signed up for nursing school.
If I could describe nursing school in one word it would be gynocentric; if you gave me two words, I'd say extreme SJWs.
If you are science minded, put in the extra work and go to medical school. Trust me, I have friends that did this and the majority of your time is spent learning actual medicine. I had a semester long "evidence based practice" class where we learned that grounding yourself can improve your mental health. Grounding, as in grounding yourself to an electrical outlet or going barefoot in the grass. I've taken several classes on electricity and magnetism in my undergrad. "Grounding" yourself will do absolutely nothing but we learned pseudo-science instead of medicine.
If you are a-political or heaven forbid lean conservative; learn to keep your ideas to yourself. I got much better grades on assignments when I learned how to write like the reincarnation of Karl Marx.
Group work can be a very social thing. Group work in computer science focused on results and objective goals, does your code compile? Did your robot fall over and die? Nursing group work is about how people feel about the work. It's less objective and more subjective.
Your program will be mostly run by women and very effeminate men. My program has a prom every year. In all fairness, my computer science department would order bunch of kegs once a month for the students.
I'm not saying don't go into nursing. Nursing is a great profession and it's very rewarding. If I had to do it over again, I would have taken the additional year and applied to medical school.
I'll share more about my experience in NP school so far at another time.
Because my daughter had to wait long hours when she went to see a physician, where in the US, 15 minutes is the most I have had to wait to see mine.
Please understand that the reason there's waits in one country and not in ours is because in that other country, everyone can go to the doctor. We have no waits here because so many people CAN'T go to the doctor that there's not enough people to cause massive wait times.
That argument is literally saying "in America, we can get cosmetic surgery whenever we want because someone who needs life-saving heart surgery can't get it."
I tried to read the entire thread. So many long responses. The OP was funny. Non political but hey I voted for Hillary twice. Was bothered because someone spoke of the detrimental health effects of slavery on descendants of slaves. And mentioned his program was ran by women.
What I find most disturbing about the rise of marxism in our colleges is that it is being used as a means of subversion of our cultural values within America. The KGB planned back in the 70's and 80's on how to get marxist ideology taught in our colleges so as to demoralize the public, and eventually cause a crisis with the hope that Americans would start to value socialism. It's a form of psychological warfare. Don't take my word for it. Hear it straight from Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector interviewed back in the 80's. He describes really well todays political environment. He specifically points out that professors and civil right leaders are crucial for the subversion of our political and social institutions.
What is with this new obsession that expecting people to not be racist, and expecting people to have to be accountable for their choices when they choose to kill someone, being called Marxism? It's not Marxist, it's called not being a psychopath.
No one is calling people expecting equality and demanding accountability marxist. What is a marxist organization is black lives matter. The organizers said themselves that they are trained marxist. Trained by whom you ask? Well right here in the US by our marxist professors. Marxist ultimate goal is for an insurrection within the United States to overthrow capitalism and replace it with communism. The problem with that is that communist countries always end up with a communistic dictatorship. There are no sustainable communistic democratic countries. The general trend under a dictatorship is that people living under dictatorships become more oppressed not less. There are better ways to stop police brutality then to join a Marxist organization.
You know what's funny? I never see the complaints when it comes to #bluelivesmatter only black lives. If there were no need for the BLM movement to exist it wouldn't be there. We have a need for it just like we had a need a need for civil rights movement (which tbt we still need) and every other movement in the United States. It's not going anywhere unless there is real change and accountability. Don't like it? Well cry a river build a bridge and get over it
You know what's funny? I never see the complaints when it comes to #bluelivesmatter only black lives. If there were no need for the BLM movement to exist it wouldn't be there. We have a need for it just like we had a need a need for civil rights movement (which tbt we still need) and every other movement in the United States. It's not going anywhere unless there is real change and accountability. Don't like it? Well cry a river build a bridge and get over it
Thats because bluelivesmatter does not have organizational leaders who openly admit they are trained marxist, an ideology that wants nothing less to detroy American social and political institutions. Defunding police departments, burning businesses, graffitiing of politician homes, knocking over historical statues are all attacks against American institutions and values which is NOT racism. Like I said earlier there is better ways to address police brutality other than joining a marxist organization.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is with this new obsession that expecting people to not be racist, and expecting people to have to be accountable for their choices when they choose to kill someone, being called Marxism? It's not Marxist, it's called not being a psychopath.
That's what the kids these days call "gaslighting."
How can it be gaslighting if the organizers of BLM openly admit they are trained marxist? Did they not say that?
Does marxist Russia and China not have a subversion strategy for attacking American social and political institutions?
Is marxist ideology not being taught in our colleges? By the way, I just finished taking a sociology class and they state that marxism is a theory when in reality it is a philosophy. Scientific theories are backed by empirical evidence through numerous repetitions of scientific experimentation. We as nurses need to know the difference between philosophy and scientific theory since our practice must be evidence based.
I like to think of it as being "red pilled" when you analyze the evidence.
You know what's funny? I never see the complaints when it comes to #bluelivesmatter only black lives. If there were no need for the BLM movement to exist it wouldn't be there. We have a need for it just like we had a need a need for civil rights movement (which tbt we still need) and every other movement in the United States. It's not going anywhere unless there is real change and accountability. Don't like it? Well cry a river build a bridge and get over it
That's exactly what marxist professors are doing when teaching marxist ideology. Indoctrinating the youth of America and silencing conservative viewpoints by deducting grade points from assignments. It's a form of violating a person's freedom of speech because you are incentivising marxist ideology with high grades while simultaneously punishing those who hold a more conservative viewpoints with grade point deductions. These grade point deductions over numerous classes have a cumulative effect which results in a lower GPA affecting said person's ability to get into grad school and therefore earning potential. What is really being oppressed in leftist liberal colleges is American values and principles by marxist professors.
Think about it. What would be the result of marxist leaning individuals having the best GPAs and getting into the most competitive graduate schools? Whats going to happen when marxist leaning individuals occupy the majority of leadership positions within our social and political institutions?
That's exactly what marxist professors are doing when teaching marxist ideology. Indoctrinating the youth of America and silencing conservative viewpoints by deducting grade points from assignments. It's a form of violating a person's freedom of speech because you are incentivising marxist ideology with high grades while simultaneously punishing those who hold a more conservative viewpoints with grade point deductions. These grade point deductions over numerous classes have a cumulative effect which results in a lower GPA affecting said person's ability to get into grad school and therefore earning potential. What is really being oppressed in leftist liberal colleges is American values and principles by marxist professors.
Think about it. What would be the result of marxist leaning individuals having the best GPAs and getting into the most competitive graduate schools? Whats going to happen when marxist leaning individuals occupy the majority of leadership positions within our social and political institutions?
-ideological subversion
BS. If this is how you write in school, THAT is why you lost points. It's not because you're conservative, it's because you just type up a bunch of BS, pass it off as fact, even though you don't have a single shred of actual evidence behind it. There's lots of conservative nurses on these forums. How did they get there if colleges are just indoctrinating them into being communist?
Also, you understand that an organization doesn't have to follow the beliefs of the people who created it, right? Most nonprofits are actually not political at all, by law.
You DO NOT specialize in critical thinking. You specialize in repeating what you read on some idiot's facebook page.
TheDudeWithTheBigDog, ADN, RN
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Please understand that the reason there's waits in one country and not in ours is because in that other country, everyone can go to the doctor. We have no waits here because so many people CAN'T go to the doctor that there's not enough people to cause massive wait times.
That argument is literally saying "in America, we can get cosmetic surgery whenever we want because someone who needs life-saving heart surgery can't get it."