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cardiology ep np, please email me at your earliest convenience. thanks!

Cardiology EP NP, I did get your PM but I don't think I'm allowed to reply. I will try this... Thanks!

Cardiology EP NP, PLEASE PM me. I have questions for you. I don't know if I'm allowed to post my email address. I look forward to hearing from you!

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AdonaiLoveable, could I please email you about VCU? I'm interested in CRNA school and have been looking there.

Clarification: RN with BSN Further clarification: Away from direct patient care (A Master's Degree is not needed to enter a CRNA program [although rumor is it's moving that direction]. A Master's is what you receive upon graduation.)

MONEY: Which jobs requiring a RN degree make the most?

I'm glad you can see it, too, though unhappy it really exists. As for your second paragraph - you make a very sensible statement, and I agree, but the meat of my point and the point of your point in the first paragraph of this quote () is that we are dealing with (at times) very insensible people. Innocent (for the specific case, because no one is perfect) people suffer daily without just cause. Thanks for the comments.

I'm genuinely laughing. Kymmi, I've just seen too much in my short life not to have issues with some types of women (not all, mind you). A lot of these experiences came in nursing school...where the women ruled. Each semester it was always something. I (among others) was sick of it, but it all came to a head just 3 weeks before graduation when my (now) husband was kicked out of our BSN program for one incident that could not be proven. Am I bitter about it? I have to be honest and say yes, but this example is not the primary source of my antipathy for (some) women. I have forgiven all, but it still stings and has impacted our lives for years to come...but we both choose to dwell on the positive outcomes (though my posts would suggest otherwise:mad:). I noticed you wrote "next to impossible"...well, this is that possible.:)

I haven't even gotten through half of all these posts, but I had to stop and just write because my heart is beating so fast from pure anger! So many people are dragging you down and pouring salt on the wound. One of the first things I noticed about your post is that you used the word "he". Let me tell you, OP, men that I have known in nursing school have it tough. Almost 50% of the males in my nursing class were treated VERY unfairly by the women instructors...my husband included. I dare say if a girl did what you did, she would have received a warning - not a dismissal. (I read from someone else's reply that a girl behaved much more poorly than you and was given another chance. And from personal experience in nursing school, the girls who were caught CLEARLY breaking the rules in various semesters were given more chances. The men weren't.) From what I have witnessed in life, a lot of women are vicious, jealous, backstabbing gossips who will take a bad day, being overweight, unhappy, old, ugly, unmarried/divorced, unpopular, and on and on and on...out on any man they find. And I'm speaking especially to your situation as a male having female instructors. If these kinds of women find a place of authority and power over men (school of women instructors vs. male nursing student), they will use it...because they can...NOT because they have good/right reason. I read in several replies to your thread that you should've buddied-up with the instructors at your school. What the...??? You shouldn't have to brown-nose/suck up to ANYONE in order to pass nursing school. On the grading sheets, there is no spot for points out beside "Sucking up". This is just one more aspect on top of the list of things that make nursing school absolutely ridiculous; it's SO subjective! Isn't it terrifying to know that you could make straight As throughout nursing school only to be dismissed in the end because you weren't well liked by 1+ instructors (and then to have the dean back up the teachers)? Oh! How the blood is boiling! OP, I give all my kudos to the men who make it through nursing school. And I say to any who have doubts...RUN. Run fast and far, because it's going to be tough throughout your career working in a female-dominated profession. If nursing is your passion, by all means, DO IT, and show all these catty women what it's like to love and persevere. We have all these classes in nursing school about how to care for the patient, how to treat the families, and how to communicate therapeutically to both. Wouldn't it be wonderful if a (much needed) class were taught on how to treat and respect coworkers, classmates, and other nurses? Sounds elementary, but this behavior is anything but grown-up and mature. Now...on to some of these posts. I just have to comment on them because of their absurdity. This is from some early poster (I can't recall the username): "You can attempt to rationalize this any way you want, but the fact of the matter is, you fell asleep at clinicals. I know, you say you didn't, but that appears to be what the preceptor observed." And this is my reply: He clearly states again and again that he did not fall asleep. Tired? Yes...but if being tired at work is grounds for firing, then this nursing shortage should be far greater than it is now. Also, in reference to your last sentence above, why should the preceptor be more believed than the actual student...the one who KNOWS what happened? "As a mom who worked full time while in nursing school, I have little sympathy for someone who was so tired they couldn't function properly at class. I've been there, we've all been there. EVERYONE gets tired. You get some coffee, or you take a break and take a nap. You don't phone it in, you don't look for excuses, and you don't blame someone else when you get in trouble for sleeping (or looking like you were sleeping, or constantly falling asleep, whatever you were doing)." And this is my reply: Sorry, "mom who worked full time while in nursing school". Congrats, but you chose that! And you say you have "little sympathy"??? Then you turn right around and say that "we've all been there." ?? Shouldn't that make you have EMPATHY (the ability to understand and share the feelings of another) for this person since "we've all been there"? The end of that post. Here is another: kharing (Female) "At this point, it seems like is it more important for you to be right - than it is to be a nurse." This is my reply: I disagree. It seems like it is more important for him to be heard and understood than to be right. And maybe he wants to be both more than he wants to be a nurse. I can't blame him after all the crap we have to go through just getting through nursing school...nevermind fighting off the wild packs of female dogs:wink2: along the way only to meet up with them again on the job after graduation. "Time to get humble," he's not?! how do you know? "talk to the Director of your program and see if they will squeeze you in for the next semester. The goal is to graduate. Oh and just because you paid 20 grand at a private school, doesn't give you the right to nod off at a clinical site." This is my reply: What in the whole wide world was that last snide comment about?!!! Was someone offended by his private school revealing? Who said it gave him the right to nod off? He surely didn't. Your comment doesn't even make sense. Also, it doesn't surprise me that it reads "Female" out beside your name. I'm kind of curious to know which description(s) in my second paragraph fits you.:chuckle Keep on keeping on, OP. Be a man...jump off the hamster wheel of drama that most women are running on. I'd like to end by saying that not all men are great, and not all women are evil. The end. ...and then some.

I really appreciate most everyone's replies. I apologize for my delay in replying, but I had forgotten my password and kept getting locked out of the message boards. I can't pinpoint just one reason I don't like nursing; rather, it's actually almost everything about it. I tried convincing myself that nursing was what I wanted to do, but now I find myself 5 years (of school) and thousands of dollars later realizing it was all someone else's dream and not mine. Like I said in my original post, I have a very different dream for myself that I am in the process of making a reality, but I can only do so much about that because I have signed a contract with this hospital for a ridiculous amount of money that I would have to pay back if I broke the contract. It is a three year commitment and if at ANY point during that three years I were to break the contract, I have to pay back the ENTIRE amount. No, I'm not staying for the three years, but I am in no financial position to pay it all back right now. I'm guessing I will stay until next december then pay back all I owe at that time. My problem is finding something until then that at least won't cause me to cry on my work days and dread work on my off days. I'd love working in an office type setting during this waiting period, but I'm hesitant to take too drastic of a paycut (remember the contract repayment). Again, I do appreciate all the suggestions, and please keep them coming. It helps getting others' opinions and encouragement.

Hi all. I am very unhappy being a nurse, but I think I could tolerate it more if I didn't work with patients. What kind of jobs could I get where I am more off to myself? I'd rather work by thinking and not by doing. Also, my husband is about to finish nursing school and we are wanting to travel (after his year or so of experience), so are there any positions like I just talked about in my first paragraph that would allow for travel? I mean, are there travel positions available without direct patient contact? I'm just trying to get by until I fulfill my other dream and get out of nursing completely. Thanks in advance!