L.O.E.N.

Yup... i learned the hard way that you never accept a cup full of meds on someone elses word and then give them to an unlabled nursing home patient. I gave a whole cup of blood pressure meds, ativan, and MS Contin to a little old lady who looked jus...

If you're fairly confident in your fundamentals, you could look into home care. Home care agencies generally work 8-5 with the option to work nights if you want, or you can just be paid per visit and take as many patients as you feel comfortable with...

Bah! That's what they said about ephedra.....

:yeahthat: Haha, I did that several times in bootcamp! The DI's generally liked to wake me back up with painful amounts of pushups and 8 count bodybuilders. I was ripped by the end of camp...:lol_hitti As for the sleep issue. Someone earlier said s...

Gotta get my CRNA. I will not be satisfied until I do... I like the ER/ICU stuff alot too, but I have 2 anesthesiologists helping me through the in and outs of the medical profession so I kinda take after them. Never know, I might wind up in med-scho...

I just treat needles like a loaded gun. Don't point it unless you intend to use it... and then safety it when you're done. I've never had a dirty needle stick, but I have stabbed myself accidently with insulin syringes when mixing a couple times. You...

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I'm 28 now and am still one of the youngest people in my class.... I can definently relate to the difference in "culture", if you will, between us younger guys and the majority of older female nurses. There even seems to be more 40+ male nurses prese...

yea, but 28.51 isn't going very far in SanFran.... considering that a 3 bedroom 1.5 or 2 bath house in a semi-decent neighborhood can easily run $300,000+. I'd venture a guess that corrections nurses and contract nurses willing to work strikes are p...

Since I have no frame of reference other than nursing in the US, I couldn't really say if it's better or worse than anywhere else. Although, I do have a friend who decided to move to Vancouver after getting his nursing degree and he says he likes the...

There's some tasks that are routine that you don't need approval for, but due to liability issues most things must have a doctors order. They usually will give standing orders for things that are expected to come up in a patients care. Emergency stuf...

I worked as an LPN last year. i enjoyed it. The only thing I heard about it was the "glass ceiling" effect LPN's get. I didn't see many working the higher intensity/technical jobs, if any... if that's your deal, work PRN and get your RN the next year...

....and then they find out you're making twice as much as they are. I'm so glad I'm not in construction anymore.

I like NICU....that's it. 80% of my OB clinicals I was housekeeping basically. I just figured that I know I'm not working OB/GYN stuff after school, so I just did it, kicked butt on the tests, and got it over with. ....but NICU was fun... had an S...

You got that right... Hi all. I'm a 27 yo married RN student... one of 2 in a class of 40 womenz. My wife hasn't ever really given me any problems about being in with a bunch of other women. I do think that professionalism pays off in that respect.....

I've always wanted to screen out a t-shirt that said "Would you like and I.V. with that?" on the front and "thank you, drive thru" -ER Nurse, on the back. One of these days, I'll do it. :)

i think just being a guy sometimes set the bar higher, albiet unintentionally... I'm one of 2 men in a class of 40 women and I've just gotten used to being singled out for the hard stuff. I don't think the instructors do it purposely MOST of the time...

Nursing school is "El Dorado" for a single guy. It's like finding the lost city of gold... if guys paid attention to the male/female ratio in nursing classes they'd realize nursing school = lotsa womenz/no competition. Anyhow, you'll do it all... no...

L.O.E.N. = Land Of Entrapment Nurse Carlsbad, NM. NMSUC student... planning on BSNing in a bigger school soon... but for now, I'm here in the carlsbad "suburb" Otis! We have a nifty water tower and some alfalfa and my neighbors have smelly horses, ...

honestly, It's easier to just run straight through IMO. It takes long enough just to get to nursing school.... and you have to consider we have 2 more years to every degree (4 yrs to Associates/RN, 5-6 to BSN...). Time's a-wastin'.... i say stay in s...

It's a bit strange at first though, I'll admit that. It's likely you'll be one of a very small group of men amongst a large group of women.... that can be both good and bad. I'm not single anymore, so picking up other students isn't a goal for me.......

One of the few, the proud, the men... Hi all! I'm new too... I'm and RN Student doing my BSN so I can ICU-->CRNA it ASAP! :)

Not army.... I was on the USS Nimitz as a FMF Corpsman with the Mariens F-18 Stingers unit. I was a squid. :)

I'm a gulf vet too...lol. I guess that figures....

It's not a stereotype with my school. I'm one of 2 men in a class of 40. Both of us are going ICU-->CRNA.