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  1. I was asked If I really want to be a nurse.

    jov replied to cinja's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I guess my advice would be to not necessarily discount your doubts. The phrase I have way too much invested to stop now sounds like something thought while standing at the front of the church hearing...

  2. Pinning ceremonies...

    jov replied to MsBruiser's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I wonder what the nursing students would say if they were offered a fine Havana cigar instead of roses this year...after all, they can just give them to their husbands after the

  3. Pinning ceremonies...

    jov replied to MsBruiser's topic in Male Nursing Students

    got the low down on our pinning ceremony, dress is professional-dressy, i.e. skirts and blouses or nice suits speeches, etc. each person crosses the stage and is pinned by the chair of the School of...

  4. Pinning ceremonies...

    jov replied to MsBruiser's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I understand the lamp is a symbol. But lamps haven't been used for nearly 100 years. Lawyers used to wear white powdered wigs in court. So based on the same logic of "tradition" is it expected to see...

  5. Pinning ceremonies...

    jov replied to MsBruiser's topic in Male Nursing Students

    :welcome: Welcome to the thread, CTRNTOBE... Since this thread is about pinning ceremonies, could you clarify your thoughts a little further? such as: what does compassion have to do with wearing...

  6. Pinning ceremonies...

    jov replied to MsBruiser's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I wonder

  7. Pinning ceremonies...

    jov replied to MsBruiser's topic in Male Nursing Students

    gotta tell ya here, stopnik, that i'm with you. pinning ceremonies don't seem very oriented toward a profession- period. i'm having a hard time with a lot of these nursing ceremony traditions. they...

  8. Sometimes I hate my current boss

    jov replied to Howie781's topic in Male Nursing Students

    you

  9. I got an "unsat", now what?

    jov replied to lindy777's topic in General Students

    first of all, I would like to say using antianxiety meds is a poor choice to deal with long term pressure like nursing school. Your classmates would be better off if they could use other stress...

  10. APRN vs. RN

    jov replied to haninks's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    of course California pays this rate. Look what it costs to live there LOL it only matters what you keep at the end of the month, not how much you are paid (if you know what I

  11. breast cancer nursing diagnosis?

    jov replied to nurse206's topic in General Students

    really? that's not in your med/surg book? what version are you

  12. Study group?

    jov replied to fishngolf's topic in Male Nursing Students

    well fishngolf, everybody's different. Since at 36, you are already a *grown up,* one would think you could trust your own opinion. I'm in my third semester (3/5 BSN) and have never truly utilized a...

  13. No IVs in my Nursing School, opinions please?

    jov replied to julsywulsy's topic in General Students

    you're right. It's not an intuitive skill. It's a mechanical skill. That's why you can learn it in 20 minutes. let's not make things harder than they really

  14. No IVs in my Nursing School, opinions please?

    jov replied to julsywulsy's topic in General Students

    more or less. Now that I'm in nursing school and getting all this *education* I'm shocked at what they let us do as paramedics with *relatively* little theory behind it. I mean, we had just enough...

  15. Mommies and daddys in the trauma room.

    jov replied to crazy4trauma's topic in Emergency

    so nice to see all the positive responses that indicate the importance of parents being there for their kids when they are in distress. Have to share an amazing ignorant thread on the nursing students...

  16. No IVs in my Nursing School, opinions please?

    jov replied to julsywulsy's topic in General Students

    relax. It's not that hard to start IV's. Paramedics do it with 20 minutes of training and relatively little

  17. Too Young?

    jov replied to Coloradogrl's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I think Auntie has a point, which is it will be more difficult for you to get respect because you are young. That being said, think of what you can do to combat preconceived biases against youth. For...

  18. attempt to debunk misperceptions about direct entry

    jov replied to Gennaver's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I think I can answer that, at least for some students. Not everyone who does direct-entry MSN programs is a person with no RN experience or no healthcare experience at all. If I had my druthers (read:...

  19. Are You Man Enough to Be a Nurse?

    jov replied to Raymond CA's topic in Men in Nursing

    Hmmm... am I man enough to be a nurse? I guess I must be... because I'm also a black belt (TaeKwonDo). So I guess I can be a nurse... Except since I'm a woman, maybe it's am I man enough to be a black...

  20. Finding a job harder than school and NCLEX put together

    jov replied to HotmaleSPN's topic in Men in Nursing

    this doesn't make sense to me. If men have a hard time finding jobs, why is it that (in general) when men are working as nurses, they move through the ranks more quickly AND make more

  21. How early do you need to come to the clinicals?

    jov replied to mmr2's topic in General Students

    We had to be there by 6:45. Some of our clinicals are an hour's drive or more. This semester the traffic on the tollway was really bad one day and I got there 15 minutes late but the instructor was...

  22. Nervous about CPR

    jov replied to luv2shopp85's topic in General Students

    DO NOT check for a pulse?? How did you come up with THAT conclusion? As a nurse you will not be a layperson and you should have been required to take Healthcare Provider CPR. These are the latest...

  23. To cap or not to cap!

    jov replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Students

    so what specifically were you referring to here? I don't know of any special ceremonies, hat, handshakes in other professions. Since we are trying to get nursing up to the same professional level as...

  24. To cap or not to cap!

    jov replied to Alice b.'s topic in General Students

  25. NIU Nursing Students

    jov replied to kristen3g3tp8's topic in Illinois Nursing

    So we shall see....so we shall see... Cannot tell you about the humanities and even if I did, I wouldn't count on me functioning as your admissions counselor. LOL Regarding the chemistry though, they...