Gragorin

I've been riding for over 8 years and 30,000 miles on various motorcycles and my GF also rides as well as the vast majority of my friends. I don't see myself ever stopping riding until I'm not able to physically ride anymore.

As of the last thing that I heard, they are laying off 42 nurses based upon seniority. I know of one unit that is losing half of their nurses from what I've been told (10-12 nurses). Moral is completely in the gutter..

I feel like I'm SO screwed at this point. I work at El Camino Hospital in L&D and I've been with the hospital for over 5 years but they are laying off 195 people, including me, so I doubt they will hire any new nurses. I graduated back in May with my BSN and I have yet to get an interview or even a call back or anything yet so this is getting quite discouraging..

Wow, that is totally outrageous as the total cost for my CNA & Acute Care cert with NO subsidies of any kind was about $1,500 TOTAL. So yeah, I would say that $32K is a wee bit much..

I pulled this one a couple of weeks ago. While I'm in school working on my BSN, I'm working at a Unit Clerk in a Med/Surg Ward. Anywho, the gist of the story is that the floor is of a very high acuity so the call lights are very busy as are the phones. I had just gotten off a call with a patient (Dementia and called every 5 minutes) when the phone rang so I reached over to the phone to answer it and somehow, don't ask me how as the nurses who saw it don't realize how I did it, bobbled the pickup of the handset. As I bobbled it I tried to recover it but instead of doing that I gave it a bit o' velocity instead. Velocity which was aimed directly at my head. Did I mention that this happened really fast? Or that I didn't even have time to duck and instead watched the pointy end of the handset catch me square across the bridge of my nose so hard that it bounced back onto the desk? Man, that really sucked after my eyes quit watering and the several nurses around me stopped laughing...

I just want to say that as a male and someone who is transferring into a nursing program, I refuse to wear the white uniform (outside of school requirements). Even the currently being tested all navy blue hospital bought uniforms at my current hospital irk me, as long as they are mandatory. The respect that I see is all about the demeanor of the person, not what they are wearing. "Professionalism" is what you are, not what you wear.

As far as I know, none of the nursing programs in the bay area have prohibitions against any kind of tattoos and/or piercings. Hell, one of the nurses I work with has 14 piercings and over 10 tattoo's and as far as I know, has never had a problem finding work in the bay area. For the most part, people just don't care about that kind of thing out here...

It happens to virtually all men at one time or another. I wear compression shorts under my scrubs (stops rubbing and is very comfortable) so it reduces the obvious things but as was mentioned above, those of us that are more "gifted" have an even bigger problem (pun intended ). That's why I'm glad I wear my scrub tops outside of my bottoms. Going off to think of something else, or doing something else helps. Especially if it doesn't involved whatever medium sparked the issue in the first place...

I found Microbiology very easy but I'm a former computer engineer going into nursing so it's a bit different for me. I was able to sorta coast through the class and still get an A. It was a bit disconcerting to see the others struggle to just get a B. I felt a bit guilty about that. Anywho, It's a class that rewards constant attendance, reading and studying I was told by the others in my class. For me, it was taking an interest in the material and reading everything in the book, even the stuff that wasn't assigned. Don't be afraid to use the professors office hours nor ask questions in class.

I work at a hospital in the bay area of california and make about $20 per hour plus differentials and benefits. I've been a CNA for approximately 2 years so far and am working on my BSN. The pay is higher here but the cost of living is quite a bit higher also but to be honest. You can make a decent living out here for one person on just a CNA's wages.

Ya know, this is a very funny thing to me. Here I am trying to get into the medical field and I'm unable to because there are not enough classes at any of the local colleges and yet the need for nurses has never been greater as far as I can tell. It's a very interesting paradox. We need nurses but we don't provide the resources to generate them locally so we have to import them from outside of the U.S.