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Hey fellow nurses, if you were creating a massive new ad campaing called "stay extraordinary" and wanted to show "extraordinary people doing extraordinary things" would you choose a nurse--Diet Coke did for their awesome ad! Enjoy:

Lol -- good catch NICU nurse!

uggh... This must have been translated via translation software.... or it is extreme thesaurus abuse. Either way, the ideas are not conveyed in an understandable manner. Sorry!

I highly recommend Old West Durham and Watts Hillendale... great neighborhoods, affordable, and within walking/biking distance to the school (parking is a mess at Duke)

I would tend to agree--> only a GPA that is very significant: 3.9, 4.0... but that would be signaled by other things that may be more meaningful and look less "bookish"... Sigma Theta Tau... Summa Cum Laude, etc

I hate to say this, but welcome to nursing! Unfortunately unprofessional behavior is more the rule than the exception--I'm finishing up at a fantastic school, but you see the unprofessional behavior in the units, in preceptors, in interviews... Stay ...

DUSON's in-house scholarships are definitely worth applying for--not a waste of time at all!

My father in law said "so you're going to be **like** a nurse, but you'll be a man." I said "Actually dad, I'm **already** a man, and I will be an **actual** nurse, not just like a nurse." "So, you'll be **basically** a nurse, but a **man.**" "I a...

Sorry for what you are going through--hope it ends up with you back in the program and eventually an RN... I have had very supportive faculty and clinical instructors. In fact our Maternal Health professor brought in a woman to speak about her experi...

Try Duke; it's a great program; very male friendly; BSN in 16 months.

love duke and durham

Larry77 mentioned Aviator scrubs back when I was first starting my ABSN program, so I took his advice. I'm glad I did. They look great, are tough, and they have as many pockets as you could ever want--I can't tell you how useful the pen-pockets on th...

I have a professor who has MG, was diagnosed at 10 yo. She works nationally with MG issues, so I'd be happy to pass your contact info on to her. Please private message me if you'd like for me to make that contact. God bless you in your struggle. Than...

From a member of the 2010 cohort: congrats to all of you who've been accepted. I hope you will love the program as much as I do. It's challenging and transformative--cheers! shane

If you have a Bachelor's degree already, then I would highly recommend Duke. I'm in the ABSN program there: 1. Phenomenal faculty with expert clinicians from the Duke Health System as guest lecturers. 2. Amazing facilities, labs, libraries, hospital...

We have a number of male faculty members, CI's, and lecturers: both they and their female colleagues are highly competent professionals who bring individual strengths and personal styles to the learning process. Gender, in my experience, makes no dif...

Aviator Scrubs! As someone said in another thread: "they are bombproof"--you'll look bombproof too, not like a guy in girl's scrubs (even though technically they are "unisex.") aviatorscrubs.com

Why is "finding a job" "hard" ?? Everyone in my ABSN program has multiple job opportunities before they even graduate or take the NCLEX. So???

Don't worry, I'm not offended, nor am I crying, or clutching a praying hands teddy bear :-) Stanley's words in this forum about Christianity are nothing but rude, pseudo-intellectual, adolescent dribble... If he wants to take a big boy pill and have ...

you should probably talk less and read more--if you'd like email me and mail you a couple of books on epistemology. your understanding of "opinions" and "facts" is uhmmm... undeveloped. #1. the truth isn't apparent to everyone; hence, there are co...

You know what--within your ridiculously offensive posts are some potentially helpful ideas. Maybe you should try being clear and patient rather than rude and random.

I didn't say that a person has to "respect" all religions. I said an adult conversation about religious truth claims ought to be honest and respectful. For example, if someone-- hypothetically :-) --says, "All religious truth claims are merely opinio...

I am going to be frank, so hold tight: What you are doing is silly. Religion isn't a play-ground game about feelings. Honest, respectful, clear, adult conversations about religious truth claims and practices would be much more useful than pretending ...

My academic advisor at Duke is great--he has been really helpful leading up to me starting there in Aug. He's done some writing on males in nursing... I think it will be an important relationship for me.

I really hope the hospital hasn't asked her to not talk about this...