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As a man currently in a nursing program, I'm sorry to hear about Kelligirl's problem. I'm even more sorry to say the scenario is typical. Of 9 women in my clinical group, it seems only one has a supportive significant other; three are divorced and the others -- despite kids and housework-- are getting no support. I've read in several periodicals it's a common problem with women in nursing school. I've also read a high percentage of woman divorce their man shortly after graduation. Go figure!

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Oh, one more important item if you're planning on travel nursing to the Hawaiian Islands. They have the strictest animal quarantine requirements anywhere. It used to be a dog or cat brought to the islands was locked up for six-months, but I understand that's been lowered to three-months now. At your expense. So if you're planning to travel with Fluffy, DON'T. I've also heard stories about pets dying in state quarantine shelters due to poor treatment. One friend returned after three-months to retrieve her cat and they'd lost it -- she never got it back.

Mahalo, No, as I said, we only intend to "travel" there as travel nurses for a few months to spend quality time with our relatives. The place is too weird to spend too much time -- although I agree with your statement about the economics. I have found whites are discriminated against. It has always helped me to be standing next to my babezilla native wife, but more than one Hawaiian male has given me the "U-took-one-of-our-women" glare. They have a unique culture in more ways than one. And cockroaches? As big as your hand. The disgusting things kinda make up for the islands not having snakes. But don't leave young children unattended. :D

Good input Sjoe. My wife has specifically suggested Queens, on Oahu, as a possibility -- she had positive experiences there. And after living in California, we'd die of boredom on Kauaii after 20-minutes. The Hawaiian economy? We bought and were given four pieces of land -- 3 on the big island and 1 on Kauaii -- when we were married. Despite all are in developing areas, they've actually significantly DROPPED IN VALUE in the past 10 years. Where else do you see THAT happen (with the exception of Bagdad).

My wife, who is a nurse instructor, grew up on Kauaii. It is one of the few places we want to travel after I receive my RN in 2003 to spend an extended period with her family. But when her mother passed away recently, we found the sole acute-care hospital to be very backwards and clumsy. The few doctors we worked with seemed rather ignorant of many things -- almost as if they were "leisure" doctors with degrees from Granada. These were our impressions only and certainly don't represent all nurses and physicians there. We may have just lucked out with the worse. But it has tainted our desire to travel to the Garden Island -- who wants to be surrounded by a bunch of yuk-yuks! So we're kinda thinking a bigger island to work, while commutting days off to the smaller, might be smarter. Anyone know anything?

Has anyone seen the new shoes for nurses that bear huge springs instead of regular soles? People that have them SWEAR by them. To me they just look stupid. Enquiring minds and all.

I know there's a lot of people that really love clogs. But everytime I look at a pair I notice there's no heel strap -- don't they slide off the back of your foot? The sellers also tout that clogs are uni-sex. Can anyone see men wearing these?