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  1. Will my diagnoses keep me from being a nurse?

    fascinoma posted a topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Greetings! A few questions... will my diagnoses and diagnostic labels be hindrances in my becoming a nurse? 1) Recently I was in a psychiatric day program, and was diagnosed with a number of mental...

  2. How hard is it to get first job as LVN?

    fascinoma posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    How easy or hard is it to get your first job as an LVN in Northern California?

  3. Becoming a nurse w/ Graves Disease?

    fascinoma posted a topic in General Nursing

    Feedback, anyone? I've been diagnosed with Graves Disease (autoimmune hyperthyroidism). Soon I'll be getting radioactive iodine ablation to treat this condition, and then I'll take thyroid pills the...

  4. How many females are "peeking" in this forum?

    fascinoma replied to caliber's topic in Men in Nursing

    Raises hand :)

  5. GLBT nurses

    fascinoma posted a topic in General Nursing

    Any GLBT nurses/nursing students? What challenges do you face? What is the medical field like for GLBT people? I'm a pre-nursing student. I'm female with a female partner, and believe it or not have...

  6. Will my diagnoses keep me from being a nurse?

    fascinoma replied to fascinoma's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    In answer to your question, I'm working on the prerequisites for an LVN program... I want to do my RN while working as an

  7. GLBT Nurses

    fascinoma replied to TuckerBug's topic in General Nursing

    To people who don't want to be asked about their personal lives or hit on... why not wear a wedding band? A lot of straight, single women wear wedding bands to work to avoid trouble. And of course if...

  8. NAI descent: Roll Call

    fascinoma replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    1/16th Jamestown s'Klallam, a Coast Salish

  9. Cultural Teaching article: The Wolf

    fascinoma replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    How do you get your totem animal? I identify with Dragonfly... I want a tattoo of a dragonfly in the Salish style. My dad says that Dragonfly is likely my totem animal. His is Orca, his online...

  10. Any Native Americans out there?

    fascinoma replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    Salish here! I am one sixteenth Jamestown s'Klallam which is a Salish tribe residing in the area of Sequim, Washington. I know next to nothing about my Indian roots or the spiritual traditions of my...

  11. Gay Native Americans Rediscover 'Two-Spirit' Identity

    fascinoma replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    Your posts are interesting and informative as always, Thunderwolf. I'm a lesbian and am interested in learning more about the two-spirit tradition in the Salish culture, but have turned up a lot of...

  12. Healing takes a winding path: Doctor charts a different course, finds foes

    fascinoma replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    Speaking as a person raised in the white majority and of mostly European descent, it amazes me that in our white majority culture we uphold our method of medicine as "supreme" and "the only correct...

  13. The "Soul Wound" of the Indian

    fascinoma replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your article, Thunderwolf. I agree with the concept of a "soul wound". From both my Indian/Scottish/Irish/Anglo-American father, and from my Jewish mother. A minority's cultural pain...

  14. Are you an Indian?

    fascinoma replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    YES! Thank you, Thunderwolf. I am a descendant of a tribe (Jamestown s'Klallam, a Salish tribe on Washington's Olympic Peninsula) that is, in terms of blood percentage, virtually extinct... there is...

  15. Will I fit in with the other nurses?

    fascinoma posted a topic in General Nursing

    Greetings, folks. I am a 33 year old "pre-nursing" student. I have a few questions to ask about the work climate/culture of nursing... I'm female. Ordinary feminine "girly" female, though I have a...

  16. Shoes with Wheels! Would you want to try them?

    fascinoma replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in General Nursing

    The wheelies look to me like a good way to get more exercise in your daily walk, though. I'll always try to work within walking distance as my first

  17. CNA, EMT, or Phlebotomy?

    fascinoma replied to checkmate's topic in General Nursing

    What state are you in? In California, your better bet is for CNA - for the purposes of employment. We make it difficult to work as a phlebotomist here. I'm one, I know. The wait to get your...

  18. Shoes with Wheels! Would you want to try them?

    fascinoma replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in General Nursing

    I really want a pair of these shoes!! I wouldn't wear them to work though,

  19. Scrubs with style.

    fascinoma replied to Thedreamer's topic in General Nursing

    You have to be Asian to wear that

  20. Scrubs with style.

    fascinoma replied to Thedreamer's topic in General Nursing

    An Asian-American nurse at a hospital that my stepdad stayed at, sewed her *own* scrubs. The top was a tunic, with Mandarin style collar and Chinese side closures. The top and pants were solid...

  21. Pre-employment personality tests

    fascinoma replied to Jules A's topic in General Nursing

    My dad is an important person in one of the companies that makes these tests. I think the tests are a crock. Much of the time, tests are administered just to see if the employee will even finish the...

  22. CNA Training in Sacramento, CA

    fascinoma replied to TurtleDove's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Thank you! I am moving to Sacramento and am starting my prereqs for the nursing program this month. Though I'm a licensed EMT and phlebotomist, due to a surgery I need to have done (bunion surgery),...