melamin

less stress? which one? engineering or nursing?? i know you prolly mean engineering..but just asking..

just curious, are there any nurses out there that used to be an engineer? or were pursuing engineering before switching to nursing? or planning to pursue engineering in the future?

it seems people have abandoned this thread for the homophobic one..lol.

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phew*....i am not alone.. =]

thanks for the suggestion. and i found it nice that you took note of the detaili wrote about my little sister.. i included orginially to give explanation in case anyone wondered why i cant get a part-time now.... but i never saw picking her up as a perpetual problem...somebody else would have to be forced to pick her up...at any rate, thanks again for the suggestion. the first few who replied to this thread didnt think someone interested in biomedical engineering like me wouldnt have any desire in helping people...

a skill i will never master: watch someone bleed do death.lol at any rate, surgery vids are awesome!! :w00t: [except lipo..dude, that is so sickening to watch..]

SALIVA?!?..lol..that's new.

lol...i was fearing that...in fact, i was contemplating putting "afraid of blood" instead of hemophobia...because i felt it's prolly gonna get misread..and apparently, it did. at any rate, i guess maybe t's good i put hemophobia. catches people's eyes. lol.

and i always thought that you have to be able to stomach all forms of wounds, blood, and needles before you even think of going into nursing.

that is exactly what i am trying to avoid most: the cost of time. which i guess i'll be forced to pay if nothing else works out.....

i know i cant provide much help..im not even a nurse.. but just wanted to share something... ..my best friend had a liver transplant when she was small..... the prospect of her not getting a liver transplant is something i am always thankful never happened...and so i can relate a little with your apprehension. the wait become more heartbreaking knowing there are more patients than donors, and other complications like yours... i really do pray that'll your boyfriend will get a liver transplant soon. =[

wow,..that's, erm,..nice....i can never see myself and my best friend sticking needles on each other....that scene is actually a little amusing

and oh,.thank you to the three people so far who took whatever little or much time to answer my curiousities....^_____^

good job...and good luck with the rest of your nursing school left!!

are there any nurses out there that went into nursing eventhough you knew full well that you were a little hemophobic or couldnt exactly stomach lacerations, nasty wounds, and the like? are any of you still like that?? oh, and were there any of you who went into nursing eventhough you were nervous about sticking needles into people? sorry, im so curious...

see, i would get loans IF i could get loans..but i can't because of legal reasons...i'm not illegal; i've been here in the US for 6 years and my papers are still in process..[.i fear it's gonna take longer to process since post-9/11 government aren't exactly excited to make every immigrant permanent residents as quickly as possible]...so because of my legal status, i cannot get any form of financial aid...unless i assumed that all loans require applicants to be U.S. Citizens or Legal Permanent Residents. In that case, please correct me. ...It'll be great if anybody out there knows a way i can get a loan with my legal status.. Otherwise,..as of right now,..I can't pay for school. ..if i seem like im just not looking hard enough for options, then let me know please. .. as of right now, nursing is the only job i know that can pay for my undergraduate and graduate studies,..that is, when i am able to go about that goal.

Thanks sarasota for your opinion.. Don't worry... I am full aware of the demands of nursing school..I know people who have been through it before... ...

Just curious, were most of you guys apprehensive when you decided to go for nursing, or were you guys 100% confident in your decision? For either question, please give a reason why as to why you were or not anxious. thank you.

well, let's see,..before i start, this might turn out long just to warn you,..so you are advised to move on to more less time-consuming threads. =] i am a first year student in a community college, and have been taking pre-major classes for biomedical engineering...but,..i haven't been exactly performing as well as i should if i really want to be accepted into ucla's engineering school. of course, there are other equally good engineering schools out there, but because of financial reasons, i cannot move out. and the thing is, if i do force myself to go through finishing all my pre-major courses and get accepted to another notable engineering school,..i dont want to be worrying about finances to pay for tution, and housing,..and stuff like that. and i feel like those typical part-time jobs just don't pay enough to rid of the uneccesarry financial worries that come with being a college student. plus, i want to know that wherever i go, i know i am going to get a good enough paying job that offers flexibilty to allow me to finish my bs in engineering. so i thought that nursing would offer both very decent pay and flexibility to meet both demands. but my problem is the cost of time. is it really worth it to go through 3.5 years of adn [counting pre-reqs] just so that i can be financially stable to pay for the financial demands of engineering school? one other detail i should note: my parents pay for my tuition because i haven't been able to, or rather, i cannot get a part-time job. after school at noon i leave quickly to pick up my 7-year old sister from school and stay with through the day, since i am the only one available to pick her up and take care of her, and my parents cannot afford a baby sitter. [they barely make enough to pay for my college and the bills].. so i feel like i cannot even worry about getting in engineering school anymore, since i can't just depend on my parents for my university education..but again, going back to my worry of the cost of time. is it really worth it to go through 3.5 years of adn [counting pre-reqs] just so that i can be financially stable to pay for the financial demands of engineering school? i hope i gave enough detail for anyone out there to shed a light on my dark worrysome mind. and for those who actually read all the way here, i trully trully appreciate it, and am grateful for your patience. it means a lot. thank you!!!! thank you!!!! i know i may seem like im just doing nursing for finances, but i love helping people...that's why i wanted to do bioengineering because i wanted to help people medically while involving my interest in engineering...also, i've been reading the posts here and it does inspire me more to be nurse..in fact, i feel like i might be stuck here and just give up engineering...who knows..