Kevin0507

it is a tough job to start out in. when i first started i was in a catch 22, i wanted to work all the time, but i really sucked at work. ex: when i was at work, i was uncomfortable bc i didnt know any answers, but when i was at home i wanted to be at work...

first be an awesome nurse. be the guy everyone comes to for answers. THEN grow the mohawk. you will be the awesome nurse that everyone goes to, and has a mohawk. the thing is you better be really really good. fyi: i doubt you will further your career with a mohawk. i think it is cool though.

nursing theory was boring and i pretty much thought of it as a waste of time. most people dont think of theory after school is over, just pass the class and keep on going.

ND, i am right there with you. im supposed to graduate on May 10th, and i only have a few clinicals left. i won't believe it till i walk across that stage.

i actually did very little during my OB clinicals. since i wasnt at a "teaching hospital," patients could refuse that a student watched. in 6 weeks i saw staple taken out of a c-section incision and a vag culture. other than that, i really wasnt allowed in rooms that much. my nursing instructor was a little angry with the hospital and talked to the nurses about it, but they really counldnt do that much. she sort of laughed it off like i did. the other guy in my clinical got to do alot of stuff, so i dont know if they just didnt like the way i looked or what!

when i tell people that i am about to graduate nursing school they usually respond with "that's great/awesome/insert positive comment here!" ocassionally i have heard the.."oh well you are going to go on to med school right?" i think that alot of uncultured people just have the stereotype in their head that the man is the doctor and the woman is the nurse. i think people think that male nurses are underachievers compared to the male doctors. in reality it is a different career path, but many people outside the medical field dont know or understand that.

im a 22 yo in nursing school. i live in houston, but go to school in baytown.

hermann has an awesome pedi unit too. i did my pedi rotations there and it was great.

Wow, I had no idea that there were so many 20 year olds posting here. No offense to the others, though, it is just reassuring to see some other young ones. I am a 22 year old guy living in Houston, Texas. Right out of high school I started out at UH doing pre-dental pre-requisites. In my second semester after I took a class about Healthcare professions I started to rethink my decision. I had pretty much decided that I was going to step down to the community college and pursue my ADN when I told my parents. To my suprise they were all for it and excited that I was breaking the mold. My father started looking up all sorts of information online about the profession and I think he was more excited than I was. (his first wife was an RN, and he almost chose to go into the same field) Well I started at the first community college and within a year had totally failed out. Talk about hard to handle..I was very upset. I decided to get up and apply to a different school. Within the year they accepted me and took all the classes that I had passed, so I started in the 2nd semester. I am now in my OB rotation and am more dedicated than ever. Nursing is the field for me and I actually enjoy the challenge the classes bring. I hope to work in a level 1 trauma center and get to save some lives! I didnt mean to write a book, but I thought that if anyone was having 2nd thoughts, or a rough time with their classes they might get some reassurance. I think when I failed out my maturity level was not quite where it should be. I was working full-time and not studying like I should have been. [i also met the girl that I am now dating(cardiac nurse)...I think that had something to do with it..lol] I am an avid surfer and enjoy working out and running. Most of my time is devoted to school, but I work as a Pharmacy Technician about 16 hours a week.

i wear a white on white uniform, with two red and white patches on my left sleeve. white on white people! oh well, you do what you've got to do.

that is the truth

i agree, but it is still considered a "woman's field" by most of America

hell yeah im man enough to be a nurse. i think it's a great ad, it probably makes some of the homophobic guys that want to do it realize that we arent all the stereotype. Surfer/Biker/Nursing Student right here.

i get the look quite often. im 22 and in nursing school and alot of my friends gave me a hard time at first. but when the realized all that it entails and the great benefits they actually started looking into it. plus, almost all of my study groups are full of good looking women!

sorry, i applied there but chose a diff school. i have heard nothing but great things about that school. i knew a guy named adam that was going there, he would probably be graduating this coming may. sorry i cant be of more help. gl