RomaniGypsy

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1. RNs and up - Do you really use all of the "gen-ed" course material on the job?

   RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in General Nursing

   I have been accepted into a nursing program (RN) "provisionally" due to the track through which I had to apply, which holds my seat in the cohort I selected. My acceptance becomes complete upon my completion of A&P 1 with a grade of B or better. ...

2. RNs and up - Do you really use all of the "gen-ed" course material on the job?

   RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in General Nursing

   That's precisely my point; if "SOME of that stuff is too deep and you'll only see it in a test, then forget it", then some of that stuff shouldn't be wasting the time or the memory resources of the students in the program. In theory at least, they sh...

3. RNs and up - Do you really use all of the "gen-ed" course material on the job?

   RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in General Nursing

   So, yes indeed I agree that I got a bunch of good responses. My thing is this - I'm not going to remember all of this stuff. Who ever does? You learn it for the tests, regurgitate it as best you can, and then later on you forget it. When presented w...

4. RNs and up - Do you really use all of the "gen-ed" course material on the job?

   RomaniGypsy posted a topic in General Nursing

   I just finished taking another A&P 1 exam, and I just have to ask - do y'all really use all of this stuff on the job? Do you really need to know the difference between a tuberosity and a tubercle, or the names of all of the cranial nerves, or wha...

5. Nursing schools WITHOUT wait lists?

   RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in School Programs

   Oh, I know y'all do much more than that. It's just that certain other aspects of the job aren't quite so universally distasteful. Feeding people - no big deal. Pushing people around in their wheelchairs - no problem. Lifting people in and out of bed,...

6. Nursing schools WITHOUT wait lists?

   RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in School Programs

   I'm willing to do all of that if I must... but it is time-consuming... so I figured I'd ask people if they had any tips for me. A shortcut would be nice. But, I can move pretty much anywhere, and I'm willing to look into just about anything as long a...

7. Nursing schools WITHOUT wait lists?

   RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in School Programs

   That's the thing - I'd clean poop for $30+ per hour. (And if it's my wife, who recently developed IBS or some other nasty as-yet-undiagnosed gastrointestinal malfunction that isn't an infection, or my son who is still in diapers, I'll do it for nothi...

8. Nursing schools WITHOUT wait lists?

   RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in School Programs

   Well, it's something anyway. Plus I have several months working as a maintenance guy / central supply guy at a nursing home. I might do that CNA course... might... I just don't get why I would have to wipe poop for ten bucks an hour in order to be a ...

9. Nursing schools WITHOUT wait lists?

   RomaniGypsy posted a topic in School Programs

   Okay, so I'm rather bummed right now. I just got done with an academic counseling appointment at my local community college and they say that their RN program is full for the next three semester starts, and the earliest I could hope to get in would b...

10. Why such a push to get more men into nursing?

    RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in Men

    Maybe there isn't as much of a "push" as I am thinking, but I have two cousins (one male, one female) who are nurses and they say, "We need more men in nursing!". My mom... "They need more male nurses!". Where there's that much smoke, there's bound t...

11. NP or Physician for men?

    RomaniGypsy replied to ImTheCuteBoyNursesLove's topic in Men

    As a man who has considered both tracks perhaps ad nauseam, I have come up with some significant differences between the two, and some differences that don't appear to be as significant as people make them out to seem. (Of course, any of y'all of any...

12. Why such a push to get more men into nursing?

    RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in Men

    Okay, I can rock with that. I guess it would depend upon the family, but in mine, it is true that my son prefers Mommy. Apparently that's common, and from my perspective it's perfectly fine because Mommy did 98% of the work bringing him into the worl...

13. Why such a push to get more men into nursing?

    RomaniGypsy posted a topic in Men

    I'm a man and I may not get it. AllNurses just posted an article about getting more men into nursing, there is an association for men in nursing that is trying to get more men into nursing... and I want to hear from experienced nurses about why there...

14. Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    RomaniGypsy replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    As a man, I really don't think that anything in particular should be done to increase the number of men in nursing unless there is a better reason than "diversity" or "gender balance" for wanting to encourage more men to go into nursing. (A good reas...

15. Did any of y'all nurses choose nursing over counseling/psychology?

    RomaniGypsy replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in Pre-Nursing

    That's something that has worried me too. At the risk of irking some people of uncommonly conservative political bent, 38 years of life and 16 of those years in business for myself have shown me the evils of the "for profit" M.O., and wherever I go n...