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Will you think the same thing a month or so from now when your employer puts you on 6-12s for strait time, or lays you off and puts your co-worker on 6-12s so they are only paying benefits for one employer?! This was life in America everywhere before the democrats ennacted the overtime protection laws about 70 years ago. even for children, remember. Have you ever worked 6-12s, 7-18s, like I have as a Vietnam Vet. ; out in the oil rigs. Thats idiotic extremism !! Its not what I am becoming a nurse for. And you'll be crying the loudest when it hits you real soon. There is nothing rational about it, its not extremism, its terrorism towards the middle class of working people in America from the white house. Lets stay calm though, we can always take out our frustrations by sending our children overseas to fight for some other countries freedom. No terrorist, or extremist could ever be that rationa! Or we could e-mail, fax, write, call our congressmen They are currently fighting it in the white house and asking for our support.

Why didn't the terrorist attack the whitehouse? Its their headquaters! Why did they attack the World Trade Center? So the worlds tallest new bldg. in Tawian can take its place? It has to complete with the new communist World Trade Center in Hong Kong about to open. What does that have to do with Nursing. The terrorist in the whitehouse are going to cut the pay of nurses by 25% or more by eliminating their overtime pay. Bush has promised to veto any attempt by congress to prevent this cut and he has sent written instruction to employers around the country on ways to get around paying overtime. Will that destroy nursing, and if it does is that a definition of terrorism? Never fear the Democrats will reelect Bush. Dean, Bush, they don't seem to know the difference. What does that have to do with transsexuals, nothing except to some they are deviants, and so is the behavior of our "leaders' in the terrorist headquaters on capitol hill? I think thats the kind of deviants we need to be concerned about, more than our fellow nursing students, and the last post commented on Bushs acknowledged unworthyness which the previous post commented was grounds for expulsion! If we help reelect this terrorist maybe we are all deviants?

Welcome Michelle, from a 59 yr. old, 4 year post-op, transsexual woman, graduating nurse. You sound intelligent, dedicated, and caring, you should consider going into nursing! They need people like you. You will have a battle ahead of you, probably not so much from the patients but from your coworkers, family and former friends typically. As a chiropractor and natural health care practioner I encountered little opposition from patients eager for help who could sense and hear genuine concern and ability to care for their health. I am a small person, and asset, but with a voice like Ross Perot, not an asset, yet he "managed to get by" and so will you. You would have as much opposition outside of nursing so don't let that ever drive you away. Don't listen to others talking about putting your career off until your transition is complete, Your transition will be continous for many years to come, as will mine. The genital surgery is only a private and small part of the transition. From puberty to young woman to mature woman takes maybe 10 years. Most commentators have no knowledge of what their talking about. I don't know anything about most subjects but I have opions about all subjects. So follow your own heart, thats why God gave you one, and take advantage of the freedoms this country has to offer; don't be enslaved by the opions and prejudices of "Judiths' who pretend to care so much for the poor". Parents take an average of 7 years to remember who their children are in our community; to realize we are 'not our own creation' , and that the laws of natural selection apply to natures animal kingdom, not to civilization. Never forget you have a Father in Heaven who will never forsake you if you accept Him as you wish the world to accept you. Be patient with those who oppose you; be a light unto them by being successful, in that which they oppose, as they walk in darkness. Some prefer to walk in darkness, others need only to be shown the light. In that way they too can become better people, better nurses. In that way you will help their patients as much as your own. You maybe transgendered as a higher calling to serve not only God, and your patients, but your enemies also; are they not also the sick. You will then be "pouring heapng coals of fire on their heads" for your Father to take care of. Pray hard for them for He will indeed take care of them. Turn your other cheek to them, but don't let them knock you down. He has already put His angels out there to watch over and protect you. You only need to accept your Father and authorize them. Its Gods way to give to the world; the poor to judge the rich. the slow to judge the wise, the weak to judge the strong and the humble to judge the wicked, the sinners to judge the self righteous. Consider yourself blessed, not cursed, so those who curse you can be healed. The American Indians considered the 'squaw-men' among them blessed. Let God make you a "fisher of men". let your enemies be you patients also and you wil be blessed. Those same private toilet stalls can serve as an adequate dressing room, you won't be changing that much at work. PS My gynecologist, very successful and popular is transgenered! God Bless you,

I will put any stateboard, medical facility, educational sys., union, or individual on notice that if you discriminate aganist me or any colleage on the basis of any form of sexual discrimination, or GID dissability I will use the vast networking facilities of the Gay and Tg socieiies across the country with their enormous legal facilities to consume you! A large portion of my education was paid for by the GI bill and the Veterns Administrations loves to protect its investments as the state of Texas once found out in my behalf. If you call me a deviant it better be in private otherwise it can fall under the jurisdiction of "Felony Hate CRIME"! Felonies commited as hate crimes carrying exaggerated legal consequences. Federal task forces going after civilrights violators especially when they are under pressure from militant 'deviant societies" can make real headlines, and real headaches. The state boards are not likely to share your opions of psych. problems, it didn't fall into any of the categories they listed. Sexual discrimination in the work place is aslo a violation of federal stautes, a felony. Most stateboards will disqualify you on the basis of felonies. I would be more worried about that than getting a stateboard to disqualify someone on the basis of their sexual preferences. I prefer to walk very softly, humbly, respectfully, but if you discriminate against me, there is an organized, vast army of militant deviates carrying a big sword just waiting for names, dates, and places. Ten percent of the pop. of the US is gay or tg oriented to some degree. That doesn't make us deviant, that makes us a minority! Concerning those who consider us sinful to teach to, work aside, or be treated by. consider this. The King James Bible, the most widely read and respected book ever written, was authorized apparently by God Almighty, and by a homosexual "deviant" King James. So we are working up to a frenzy now with more and more authorites supporting the rights of discrimination under various disquises. I am grateful there are also more very admiral and wise good hearted caring souls who wish to put this issue aside as I do. Personally I will make it as hard as possible for you to recognize my deviant GID. and I will say no more, except if you do recognize me you better keep my secret, secret!

I am a graduating transgendered nurse so I can supply the defense for my sexual phenotype. Let me tell you life as a male was far more of a struggle vocationally, socially, and spirititually than as a five year post-op female. I consider myself a typical transgendered person. The neurophysiology of "us" isn't well understood but certainly doesn't match our genotype. The main barrier to our normal function in society is the usual fear from ignorance.of others. I expect to function as a nurse in the community as I do in the rest of society, conducting myself appropriately for my now observeable appearance. in manner and dress. My voice tends to give me away, but my healthy femine figure, no beard shadow, cosmetically corrected facial features and gentle nature more than overcomes that question in peoples mind. At fifty nine and asexually oriented, as is typical, that is not a potential issue, as it shouldn't be between patient, coworkers and nurse anyhow. I am using myself as an example not really to tell you "my story" but so some of that ignorance can be corrected. I thank and applaud those who have so favorably commented on the issue for their humane, caring attitudes as I understand is the primary attribute of the nursing profession. For those who have not your opion is your right, as long as it does not infringe on the rights of "us". Thats the law in America. If you choose to violate the law, or make your own law, you will become the problem, not the transgeneded nurse. For the most part you you may never know you are working side by side with a transsexual. Nontransexual people whose phenotype, male or female, butch or feminist male, or not legally discriminated againist as nurses even though you won't know their actual status as trans or nontrans. Most of us will wear pants at work as a standard uniform, to moslems that may be culturally offensive more than the assumed problem of being a transexual nurse. There will always be individual problems to be dealt with individually, not as a class. Will we discrimnate against transgenered patients? Will we discriminate against female to male transexual nurses which are out there among you maybe in larger numbers in the nursing professions. I know this to be the case in the Seattle area. I personally have a concern that the majority of nurses are so pathetically unhealthy in appearance for their sake, and to the concern of their patients, straining their confidence the nurses have the concern for health to care for their patients health. And yet the nurses function competently, and professionally in spite of this "deception" of health. Should we ban nurses who smoke? Spiritually I am a fundamental christian as are manyTSs. I am what I am by the Grace of God. He did not match my genotype with my phenotype, in fact I was a runt and hardly considered a man by women. Yet he revealed his gospel of salvation to me a sinner and gave me eternal life making me a son of god as much as any other saint. As His Holy Spirit entered me at salvation it did not change my phenotype but it did begin the process of moderating the extremes of sins in my life as He completes His work in me so that I may serve Him and my neighbor as He does all the other varieties of sinners who come to know Him. I am honored to enter a profession where the workers apparently have caring hearts to serve their fellow man as expressed by most of the commentors in this thread side by side with those of whom God has chosen to create different in ways irrelevant to their capacity also to serve. The needs of the many,public, are more important than the needs,preferences, of the few.

Nice to meet you Frances. A good point, meds do cause a lot of gas also, as do supplements. Cows and other livestock have a lot of methane output. I have even read it may be major contributor to the greenhouse effect. So we are in good company and you to go have a good day and play you're tunes also mate.

Some Considerations: You are probably are aware of these, or at least some of them, but you may have to take them more seriously. Lactaid is a poor substitute for lactose intolerance because of other sugars in milk and even more so milk proteins such as as casinate are even more alllergenic. They are added to such products as non-dairy creamers, and it only takes one dose every two weeks or so to perpetuate a migrane, backache, or inflamatory bowel condition. A more effective approach to undigested foods would be to take supplemental acidophilus, with the best being in the form of HSOs [homeostatic soil organisms] from 'Garden of Life' for instance, or other potent, refrigerated brands, or unflavored yogurts, or sources of Lactic Acid yeast products from "Standard Process Labs", or even saurekraut and its juices. A big part of the middle age connection is simply achlorhydria, and or pancreatic insufficientcy which can be addressed with supplementation also. Bilateral hamstring weakness is a quick test and indication of achlorhydria. Undigested complex carbs. are the most common cause of flatulence otherwise and can be treated with digestive enzymines to some degree. More cooking of certain vegetables may be necessary to break down those indigestible complex carbs to simpler digestible ones. A major approach to eliminating most food allergies that has proven its dramatic effectiveness to multitudes has been to adopt the "Eat Right For Your Blood Type" diet. It can be a dramatic change in your diet and hard and slow to adopt fully as necessary, but the rewards are far more than just eliminating most flatulence. The same can be said of following the "Metabolic Typing Diet", but its determination is more subjective and may require a trained practioner to accurately determine your corrrect metabolic type. Combining both would be the optimun. There are many more contributing factors that can also be major causes, and many more significant aides that indirectly help overcome these factors. Ignoring them in your head and heart will not overcome their effect on your metabolism. As an example, fallen arches, especially for nurses on their feet for long hour and its biomechanical effect on your digestion. The solution, various forms of arch support. Those "As SeenOnTV" outlet stores in the malls sell shoe insert, arch supports economically, as does "The Good Feet" stores". They may also save you much, feet, knee, back and head and neck pain, as well as improve your digestion in time. Gall bladder dysfunction and stones or of courses a very direct and treatable condition that address fat metabolism. They can usually be easily flushed out of the gallbladder nonsurgically as they were done so for ages before modern surgery evolved. A good start is to go on "Milk Thistle" herb for a month first which will help pass even the larger ones. It will help improve liver function where the biliary stones often by the thouands will precede the few larger gall stones. Removing the GB will only lead to a new GB and stones as the bile duct will simply often only herniate to a new psuedo GB. Once again restoring normal intestinal flora with at least basic symbiotic acidophilus is necessary to eliminate inflamantion of the bile and pancreatic ducts that contribut to digestive problems when sweets, etc. feed candidas, and e-coli, klebisia, etc. and become replacement parasitic host that anounce their dominance with smelly and volumious flatulence. For information about how to flush out the gallstones or other matters my address is [email protected]. For criticism about my opions or grammar, or spelling, please forgive my typing and old eyes and take some acidophilus. PS one last but biggie often over looked factor. If your bowel transit time is more than 24 hrs, {average time aside}, you are storing fecal material pass usable digestion to fermentation without the benefits of intoxication so to speak. Swallowing charcoal tablets or eating corn and watching for the remains in your stool will indicate how long you are storing that gas producing material. Often 10 to 15 lbs or more of carcinogenic fecal material continously occupies our colons, with all the added orthpedic, organ prolapsing, gas forming benefits in overweight people, just waiting its turn to be expelled sometimes for days. No I am not selling anything, and if there was a simple brief answer to flatulence, there wouldn't be much of a problem with it. Yes I did overcome my own major problem with it.

Chris I am flattered all you can find to criticize in my grammar is a few spelling errors. If you find spelling errors so dammanable you should critique Excelsiors new CPNE Study guide as it is full of spelling errors, and even more atrocious seemingly unedited errors. You might want to drop your enrollment with Excelsior, report them to the NLN, and NY state authorities while your alerting the authorities in Utah about the Academy of Nursing. I never said I quit being a chiropractor after 30 years, or that that "I was all but a pychotherapist". You did; more poor research? If you had any experience treating patients as I have, and as caring nurses must have, when they encounter the many patients with colicky attitudes as you seem to have you would know you need to be a pychotherapist to get through to them to help them. Chiropractors used to put them on sauerkraut juice, no pun intended, for a couple of weeks and then treated them. It put lactic acid in their intestines, nourished the intestinal flora and often drammatically "sweetened" their sour-grippey attitudes. It was the same effect of clearing bile from a crying = colicky baby. Oriental medicine divides patients into four types, one being the "yellow-bile-beligerant" patient. They directed their therapy towards the gallbladder, usualy with accupuncture to K-27 pt. just inferior to the medial meniscous of the knee, the most treated AP point on the body? I wouldn't be an Excelsior student if they had not received official grade transcripts, copies of my diplomas for my degrees, etc. I could send you copies also, along with photocopies of my state license to practise chiropractic in Fla. and Miss. if it would ease your troubled spirit. The unusual snow storm in the Seattle area, along with high winds and flooding I had to evade did put off my scheduled CPNE test date last weekend. Otherwise there is nothing "I haven't quite got around to getting". I was in licensed and in private practise as a chiropractic physician in Naples-Ft. Myers Fla. area begining in 74'. Search the archives of Naples newspaper for a 1/2 page article with a picture of my sign with the unusual name for a chiropractor "Touchy". Seriously most cultures in the world have relied on either lactic acid rich diets, or diets rich in acidolphilus from yogurt to yak butter to sauerkraut to pickes and vinegars as a primary defense aganist physical and mental health problems. You might want to take advantage of their wisdom. Sorry this couldn't be a brief reply but it wouldn't of said anything if it had been. By the way HAWAIIT is a misspelling also? It seems were all prone to it.

Another supreme example of ignorance from arrogance often at the expense of the patients health. Many states grant chiropractors the title of physicians because they are licensed to the general practise of health care using all mannners of alternative medicine that many M.D.s' are learning to use to supplement the short comings of alopathic medicine, and many more are replacing the use of medicine and surgery almost entirely with alternative medicine. Of courses I've learned much of what I know of clinical nutrition from medical research. I also realize that much medical research is financed by chiropractors? For instance the University of Southern Calif. by grants from the inventor who held the patent for the process of putting color on film for Eastmn Kodak, a very rich man, and a world famous chiropractor. My state license was as a 'Chiropractic Physician', granted because many of us were sent down from our Chiropractic College to pass the state medical sciences exams all doctors in Florida had to pass to practise there; MDs, DOs, DCs, even DDSs. The medical profession with the blessing of the chiropractic associations had enacted this requirement years before to keep chiropractors out of the state. Chiropractors didn't want the competition down there, and arrogant MDs didn't want anyone else to call themselves any kind of doctors. Not even dentist. So most chiropractors didn't bother. The test were so hard the MDs and DOs and DDSs couldn't pass it for years. You guessed it. Chiropractors were passing in numbers. So they had to liberalize the test and make it easy enough for MDs to pass. or at least commensorate with the degree of medical education graduates normally acquired from around 3500 hrs of classes as opposed to the standard federally mandated and documented 5000 to 6000 hrs. of chiropractic education in basic medical sciences. We were eligible for VA benefits, therefore under somewhat discrimantory federal requirements which turned out to our advantage, and to the advantage of many patients. I have a BS in Human Biology from a college with the very same accreditation as Harvard. I was steered into alternative medicine or complimentary health care by a Noble Prize winning professor at the University of Texas as as a pre-vet student. I was so impressed by a MIT graduate with a Masters in Mechanical Eng. cured of a severe neurological disorder who went on to become the President of the Texas Chiropractic College, and a researcher in biomechanics; that I went on to Chiropractic college when I had my first Associates degree. My first patient as an intern in Chiropractic college was a chronic sinusitius patient coming from two weeks of test at Mayo Clinic. All I knew to help him was to advise him to stop drinking all coffee something his medical dcotors had not done. Something his strictly orthpedic oriented chiropractors who commonly had coffee pots in their waiting rooms didn't tell him. So he had suffered a lifetime of chronic headaches. Humbled by his misery, he tolerated my attempts to practise adjustments on him and my continued patient teaching of the physiological relationship of his headaches and heavy coffee consumption which eliminated his headaches. Years later, and many similar patients, later, very few strictly orthpedic, treating no backaches that I can even remember, I treated my last patient as a chiropractor.. He was referred from the emergency room of a hospital in Fort Myers, Fla. as a pseudo-stroke patient. The wise and humble and patient dedicated Neuro Surgeon who wasn't impressed with his superior titles, and creditials, or arrogance towards the big sign on my office "Dr. B.G. Touchy, Chiropractic Physician" referred his patient to me because he felt I could help him more than he could. The neuro surgeon understood occipital slips and vertebral artery occulsions and the consequent hemiparalysis possibily reversible with simple but specific resolution from a chiropractic physician. It did take an atlas/occipital adjustment that was easy and a few muscle memory-cranial sacral techniques to restore his full neuromuscular function. The patient, the NS, the town of Fort Myers didn't have a problem with the physician on my sign, neither did the state of Forida. They expected such from you, it was your responsibility. Its normal practise all over the country and has been for decades. Its just that many young healthcare workers, LPNs, etc. assume that only MDs are physicians. Tens of thousands of patients , hundreds of thousands of patients over the last hundred years have been successfully treated by chiropractic physicians, most probably after dissatifaction with their medical physician, and visa versa. And now for a rebuttal from our local sensor who is imminently more qualified and experienced, and who abhors the concept no doubt, the sacriledge no less, of a chiropractor calling himself a physician. Well I am four years older than the average life span of a medical physician in this country, I am trim and healthy and starting a new career as a nurse and pleased to relinquish any title as a physician for an equallly honorable one as a nurse. So any forthcoming sarcasm, doubt, arrogance or displays of ignorance concerning the history of chiropractic physicians , won't change present. past or future reality, but feel free to do so anyhow.

Thirty years ago as a licensed physcian in the states of Florida and Mississippi I realized the three main causes of disease and illness were pride, arrogance, and ignorance. The state medical sciences board examination I took to qualifiy myself for those licenses did not prove I or my colleagues were very well qualified to treat the causes of those diseases and illness. So I went back to study for many more years and leave the treating of the symptoms to the mechanics who themselves were usually infected with the same three pathogens or diseases of the heart and mind. I needed to purge myself of as much of those problems as I could so I wouldn't contaminate my patients. I feel it no let down to change my title to RN now and to administer care from a humble heart. Thats the kind of "ignoramus" patients need. As I continue to experience arrogant doctors, nurses, and students I pray I will never again try to treat and infect my charges with my own pride, arrogance and ignorance. Physcian, nurse, and student heal thyself before you think you can heal your patients, if thats your goal? Remember the words of Dr. Cook the previous Surgeon General of the US; "If every Dr. in the country were to leave the country, the average health index and lifespan of Americans would increase significantly" I want to be part of ther minority of health care workers that are part of the solution, not the problem, that help overcome the infection of their care givers. Thirty years from now will your patients be served by your attitudes, or just your egos at the expense of their health?

To prospective students who might be amused or disgusted about this controversy, and the value of Academy of Nursing. To sweet Cris! If you had the good sense to look into A of C better as I did you would not have the bitter experience you claim to have had with their Excel program. I never gave it a second thought much less hundreds of dollars. The Academy of Nursing CPNE BootCamp on the otherhand was as I said before outstanding. I did attend it as an EC student! Someday when you grow up you may learn that most things in life are like that, part good and part bad. If you're wise you'll learn to take advantage of the good side and avoid or tolerate the bad side. It may someday amaze you to find out you, yourself have good and bad points, as I do, as nursing will be, as are the drugs and therapies you may administer. If you don't grow up you may need to learn the good and bad of Prozac to cope with life. As far as EC state acceptance is concerned, don't take my word for it, ask EC, then we'll see who knows what they are talking about, or even better ask the state boards. You're a new student, I am finished, when you get to where I am you may know a lot less than you think you do now. In all fairness I am probably thirty years older than you and probably was a lot smarter when I was you're age too. Forunately I learned that "Arrogance begats Ignorance" early in life, so I never needed the Prozac. Good Luck you're going to need it . No axe to grind, just trying to be helpful

I have commented for edification not degradation. Chris you should oviously address your plead to Spassy and all the "idiots RNs" in the world he has to warn us about. You may have some new policy statment from EC to this 50% policy but new or old its not real as Spassy has commented. It certainly didn't pertain to my eligibility. fORTY NINE STATES do not accept EC no matter how many times you make that claim, as EC has told me themselves. I will combine this response to Spassy also as this will be my last post so you characters can have the last word and put out what ever suites your now questionable motives. Spassy your name, logo, and place of employment well suites you.

I am here to say you're definition of their students having acquied the 50% of their clinicals is entirely your own. They have had to tighten up on the paramedics eligibility but otherwise they allowed anyone with some kind of healthcare clinical experience to enroll, for which I applaud them, and am gratedul. Thats the American way. Many have gone on in Calif. and else where to prove it works as EC nurses staff the hospitals successfully. Some may not have and they may have been exp. LPNs? The country needs nurses, students need jobs, lets let them know where they can get help, where they can get screwed, but lets let them decide, let them choose. Its such as the Calif. critics who want everyone to have to toe the line and earn it the hard way as they may have, who sell the program short. We just can't all be Harvard graduates!

Lets not forget that EC is an extension program that claims they don't care where you learned a subject from, they will compile and accredit what you have learned so that you can put it to use. So are EC students now condeming that policy as unethical. Are EC students forgetting there is a severe nursing shortage out there to the deteriment of the publics health care. Are we not able to preceive that we may be *****ing about the understaffed, intolerable, unsafe workload, overtime, weekends, holidays we will have to work to compensate for that nursing shortage we ourself can promote. EC is not an exclusive LPN to RN program that can afford to dictate to all its eligible students from diverse backgrounds-after they are enrolled -a formal, traditional regimen,, that may make it unnecessarily harder and slower for a student to become an RN. Which of course only aggravates the shortage, and the work opportunities of many probably very needy students. If we feel that way why don't we all wait the average 3-4 years and go thru a formal campus program for our minimum BSN for another 4 years. Remember two things: your EC credits are worthless at any other nursing schools. My stateboard doesn't accept EC degree at all, as others donot also. Calif. either wants to disqualify EC or already has for future students not enrolled before Sept. 03. Secondly, realistically to pass the EC nursing exams and the CPNE YOU HAVE TO HAVE LEARNED THE MATERIAL AND BE ABLE TO PERFORM THE CLINICAL PROCEDURES, or anotherwise do the work. Are any of you condeming the NCLEX prep. guides? Whats the diff.? Is EC degree so prized its honor demands it be earned in the hardest possible way, or is it barely acceptable. I say EC is a great program, and a great opportunity for those of us with little chance of becoming an RN without it, but its too boast of much more accreditation than it actually has! Who would of thunk it! Sincerely, Yogie Bear