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Lol -- good catch NICU nurse!

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:

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 true to your reasons for going into nursing, be wise in picking your fights, and survive the idiots so you can take their job someday.

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 am a **man** who is going to be a **nurse**. **Man is my gender.** **Nurse will be my profession.**" Wow--that was painful

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 experience of having a male L&D nurse. In my OB rotation I did face some very discriminatory behavior and statements from nurses on the unit. The women and families I worked with seemed to really appreciate the care I provided, and the nurses I worked with directly seemed happy with my work. But, I did have to endure some ugliness from other nurses AND a 20 minute lecture from the charge nurse about why, basically, men (only nurses of course, not MD's, scrub techs, whatever) were not welcome on the unit.

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 the sleeves are! People are always loosing pens or laying them down on dirty surfaces, and I have mine right where I need it. Thanks Larry77

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. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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 3. The best admissions process--very very thorough, but very respectful of diverse experiences and backgrounds. 4. We have a couple of military guys in the program with me 5. a well-funded, organized chapter of American Assembly of Men in Nursing 6. great loan repayment options if you stay with Duke or go across town to UNC 7. outstanding Office of Global and Community Health hope to see you there--shane

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 difference in their ability to teach. It *is* nice, as a male, to have males on the faculty as professional role models, but I think that the style difference you are experiencing is more of a matter of personal characteristics of the teachers than it is anything to do with gender. Also, it may be that your preferences about which nursing professors you prefer are just that: personal preferences.

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 a real conversation I'm game. But, I see no reason to further subject things that matter to his childish banter... If this were about his idea that all religious knowledge is mere opinion--what an empty, hopeless thought--then we'd have something worth talking about. cheers for now

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 conversations like this where people disagree. #2. i all realms of knowledge there are degrees of certainty and various justifications giving for a truth claim. i have never heard a person claim that for something to be true it must be "apparent to everyone." #3. maybe your disrespect feeds the antagonism you feel between you and christians. #4. all spirituality is embodied in beliefs and practices--that is the definition of religion. maybe you mean religion, if it is kept private is ok, but if it is public then it's not ok? #5. i have no idea what you mean by this: "me changing my behavior to suit your belief has nothing to do with respect."

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 opinions." That person clearly lacks appreciation for what nearly all religious thinkers have claimed: that there *are* things that can be *known* about morals, the soul, our Creator, justice, and redemption. Maybe a person with a more respectful view of religious claims could say, "I don't believe that a person can *know* anything of a religious nature, but Christians and others do actually believe their doctrines to be *true* and not merely matters of opinion."

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 to respect religions by reducing their metaphysical, moral, and theological claims to mere opinions.

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...

I remember one winter break from college working at Sam's and being chosen over and over to leave the ladies at the registers and go push carts in the snow.... strange how none of the females had to do that... and we were all getting paid the same... That's what we get for having _______s. :cheers: