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Good evening. Everyone I am trying to get into an ADN the nursing program At Temple; my GPA is 3.0 without taking my HESI A2. In my science classes, I have a B, but my composition is a C. Other courses are A and Bs. Should I apply and see what happens? Or wait until I retake Comp? The Minimum GPA is 2.8, but I know it is very competitive. I am not very good at school. I study a lot but can never get all As. Any advice would be great. -Semper Fi

I'll get back to you on this David FR. It's finals week. I must turn on my coal-powered computer and take the horses to the drinking hole my entire town makes use of. Another day in the life of a simple non westernized folk. "little house on the prairie music playing in the background." You made some excellent points; let me ponder them to give you a more educated response. I assure you I didn't miss your points, and I apologize for bringing up any traumatic memories.

Growing up in a Budweiser Nascar kinda family, I hated it growing up too. However, I went to a survival school later on in life and found those skills important. I feel sorrow for the animal, but I find it respectful because understanding death and what the animal goes through is important to understand that meat and life aren't something that can be so easily purchased.

As being a caretaker or healer I was wondering if it is mostly fround on by most nurses.

You answered the question I just was wondering if it was in the realm of a social norm within the field and what hobbies do you enjoy??

Look I am not a nurse yet I have about a year left in my program and god willing I can sit for the NCLEX. However, I love hunting and fishing do you guys enjoy Hunting or fishing and do you ever have time to go??

So its tough to get counseling, and my issues are not severe. I'm loosing hearing in my right ear from a flash bang grenade going off next to it I think but I do talk to a military counselor on campus everything it helps I lost a good friend to suicide so it help to talk about him and try and forget I could have had a beer with him instead of my eyes glued my damn Xbox. I rejected counseling so much and now I am going and its like years of pilled on *** man. Really the ear and transition hardest part. Marines are super alpha male so its nice to let my fist down and not have to throw down in the barracks drunk every-weekend. Thank for the advice I'm setting up an appointment if this corona virus wipe out the species. Then my ear will really be the last problem

I read over your post, and thank you so much for responding. It is a petty problem properly considering what you have been through. I learned to put on a mask in the Marines, seeing my buddies get hurt and being in sometimes crazy *** situations. I adapted not to show weakness and have a quick answer to everything. Act Act Act respond to the threat. In the Marines, there is no room for feelings or crappy attitudes you follow orders, give orders, and shut up. Do what I tell you if it hurts your soul because I want to go home, and I want you there with me. So you learn caring is being an *** because maybe I'm an *** today, but the beauty is I get to be an *** to you tomorrow. Also, I reread my post, and you're defiantly right. I do not come across as confident. In the Marines, I had a lot of young Marines 18 and sometimes 17 looking at you to guide them and keep them safe. So I adopted a personality that I acted confident and gave myself a persona of screw you do what I say. I just wanted to keep my marines alive and disciplined to follow orders. I crave acceptance as one of the flaws of the many. However, I am insecure; I'm not looking for friends. I'm looking for a team, not to ***, but to help patients, mostly I want to work for the VA I love my veterans there warriors and protectors that we forget about. I know this doesn't apply to anyone on this forum. But I am having trouble adjusting, and many veterans are lonely when they return to civilian life. In the Military, you always want acceptance. Having friends that you depend on can save you A** I did some awful stuff while deployed, and I almost never saw my wife again a couple of times. I didn't care about my life. I just wanted to finish the mission no matter what helping foreign commandos on boat driving or training Marines to shoot expert on the range I was young and wanted to shoot and throw grenades and fast-rope out of helicopters.I wanted action and adrenaline, and when you're on that Adrenaline mountain, you will do whatever it takes to get into that gunfight. I almost lost my wife a couple of times, giving more of myself to my marines and career than her. You protect your brothers and sisters, so they are sure they can trust you; you would do anything to ensure they Accept you and know you will protect them. I am aware nursing isn't the Military, and as a (Boot)- "New Don't know nothing student nursing student" I have no room to talk but my having two sisters as a nurse I felt like a lot of gossips and arguing and ego got in the way of them helping Patience. However, there most certainly are these experiences in the Corps. Still, we always listen to the Platoon Sgt and have rank structure, so when danger does occur, we know who our boss is and fight organized instead of being an individual Marine. I am excited to put your advice into action in the field in a few months. Look, I'm not trying to change nursing. I think some of America's finest occupy this field, and there is credit due that hasn't taken place. Yet, I believe that America's eyes will open once they see how nurses handle this virus you guys are this 25-year-old man's hero I had a nurse in the Marines that made me admire nurses she was a Navy nurse and worked with marines only. Still, she was smart and kind and always took away from her personal life to help mentally and physically Marines. She stood up for us, and we respected her, and If you know, the Military isn't known very well for being friendly to women. The point I'm tiring to drive home is not about nurses. It's about how the medical field and how it's structured; if your afraid of being wrong and aren't willing to chew someone's ***, or open your mouth and work with someone you don't like. Just pretend to be buddies for the sake of the life of the patient save a life what are we doing? We can have 100 (hard-charging)- Hardworking nurses but no way rank structure everyone just doing their own thing we are not an asset to the patient I may be what nursing doesn't also need. I swear on my Marines. If I was under any of you excellent beautiful Americans/ nurses, I would work as hard as I could every day to follow your orders and be an open book to your teaching, not because I want money or power. Still, I want to know when the time comes ill be the most readily equipped nurse for my veterans so they can identify someone cares and knows where their heart is, and I'm going to treat them like my Juinor Marines. Still, I know my Marines, if put under you, would be the best damn CNA/assistant you had, and when it was time for them to lead, you would look into a mirror of what kind of nurse. You are because they would remember the best parts of a good nurse god let me make it home with all my arms legs fingers member and mental health and at one point I was just gonna keep pushing my luck one time scared me c130 almost crashed coming home from 6 month deployment played my luck the entire deployment didn't take one KIA, and I die on the plane ride back to my wife I said god I'm going to help fix my brother the ones that lost legs, fingers, toes, genitals and those who never return the same I know I can help more here at home then I can be shooting Machine guns at the enemy . Thank you for the advice you hit the target on almost all your a great writer thank you for responding. Tired for typing you head off, I get lonely no Marines no nurses no nothing just studying and working on my marriage, which I missed a lot of looking out for my own A**. I can tell you care about your nursing staff. I mean, I don't know you could be a computer gossip troll. But I believe you responded to me because you made to fix people, and I admire you for your caring experience. In my defense, I can be very confident, and I am insecure at times, but I'm not afraid of telling anyone anything that needs to be said for the protection of another. I was once almost jumped by a biker gang/ Young soldiers that bought overpriced Harleys for telling them to move their bikes off my lawn cause my wife doesn't like it and, it's my house and my wife doesn't feel safe, and they got mad got ready to fight but saw I wasn't going to go down easy and they respected me more for standing up for my wife my property and my self they knew I didn't go easy I would have fought those guys and probably ended up in the hospital, but they would have never disrespected my wife or me again. By the way, you say anything about my wife, not you just example person Ill put them in the dirt. Cause she is annoying and controlling sometimes, but darn it, she is my ladybug/wife, and I'll kill for her. Another military lesson I learned was My wife and my family come before everything she was there through it all she could have given up along time ago. Still, she is in bed next to me now, and if I stay hungry and madly in love Like I am, she will be around longer. Thank you again. Stay healthy, and God bless you. I hope I don't offend you, and if you think ill be a *** nurse, let me know, and ill continue anyway and use your advice to an advantage to change my self. I am not so confident I'm sensitive for a man you would have to meet me I guess you never judge a book by the cove cause the edge of that book is what hurts, not the cover. Please don't mistake me attempting to be kind as a form of weakness. I know you can tear me a New A** whole on this forum because, well, for one, I would never hurt a nurse. look, I'm going to tell you about me not to brag or start a sob story. I want you to understand my lack of confidence. and I would love to hear about you I know I'm just some random internet guy buy you don't have to tell me personal stuff. I have been around the world, Places I never knew existed. I lost many Marines to suicide if I would have b lost both parents, my mother, at 17, and my best friend and hero, my dad at 18. I grew up moving from house to house I spent a year of my live-in juvenile corrections my mother would leave me with her drug dealers for days. So yeah, I have a few trust issues. But I'm not a pushover, I may be unconfident if it came to do to it and somebody mistreated you, and I don't even know you I promise I would shut them down I know who I am Dwight D. Eisenhower " Its not the size of the dog in the fight its the size of the fight in the dog"

No super solid advice exactly what I was looking for. I read it and I'm gonna listen to that advice. Seriously thank you for giving me feed back.

Thank you

So I just got out of the Marine Corps last year and am in an ADN program. The issue I'm having is working mostly with a lot of Men all the time. I am enjoying working with a lot of women. I have had a lot of terrible experiences with women. Growing up, my mother had a drug addiction growing up in crack houses living with different people's entire childhood, etc. Well, in the Marines, women are not treated very well a lot of the time, and talked down to,fake rumors sexual abuse a lot of super disgusting things just a tough life, and its a hard life. So what I'm getting at is I feel like a butt hole for having those views on women mostly peers pressure . Now working with so many adamant, intelligent, and powerful women, I can't change my childhood, but these women are showing me the best side of women possible. I find my self wanting approval looking at them as mentors more than most men I have had, but I don't feel like I fit the shoes of a nurse no matter how bad I try. I love the classes I find it interesting. Honestly, at first, I was in it for the money, and well being deployed a lot I wanted a family. What I'm asking is how do I get the women I go to class with to want to work with me, cause I want to be a good team member and I want to stop acting like I Know every dang thing like I did in the Marines. I need help, and I want to ensure I am working correctly and not messing stuff up. So I might make it into the program. I want this so bad, I don't want to be the *** guy that no one wants to work with. I was with _____________, and it was very close group. I want the same cohesion where ever I start working. Honestly, I want to fit in. I'm very confident, I'm not afraid to answer questions and tell people there wrong and I enjoy being corrected I feel like it makes me a stronger student and maybe one day RN. I am not very good-looking, so I can only assume instead of being sure I look like an *** not mentioning the looks because of women but in general if you ugly people think your annoying. I want to be a good nurse, I'm not expecting a pity party and a well you have been "a sexist piece of *** your whole " life it's okay we will treat you like your not part of the problem women are still suppressed in the world. I would never bring this up in person. I want to fit in, and I want to know how to be a helpful male nurse. I want to get torn apart, which is fine. I like crying my self to sleep LOL. Looking for advice on how to better approach trying to be apart of a team. Thank you