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Several of my non nurse friends are working as overnight sitters. IT is a low stress job. I am wondering if I can do this even though I have an RN license? The companies aroung here also hire CNAs. Am I allowed to do that job? I am in Maryland. ...

Thanks to Porridge for reminding me that I was lucky enough to get injured while in the last semester of school. I say lucky because that really helped to open my eyes! I could work but was slow. I came in and worked a bit but was told to go and t...

This is the problem. You are mistaken, your life should not be all about "the patient" Doctors are not taught this. Paramedics are not taught this. Xray techs are not taught this. You get the picture. The patient should be first in an emergency ...

I think this is the most likely scenario. I already worked in one field where a similar thing happened. We are becoming a global economy and that is not going to stop. Just having and education in something is not going to make one stand out. The...

I agree with Eyeball. Ruby Vees post is just plain nasty. If the things she has posted here are truely how she feels I suspect the respect she believes she is getting from new nurses is just plain fear. Many people like to instill fear in others t...

Make sure that the recent RN grads are getting jobs in your area prior to going through all of this. Remember that you need to get a job failry quickly a a nurse or your skills will get old and no one will wnat you. So if no one is really hiring nu...

Do not get into nursing because of the "shortage" hype. There is no shortage of nurses only a shortage of jobs for them. A job in pediatrics will be especiallly hard to get. Getting a job in peds first prior to getting your nursing degree wil mkae...

Agreed. And this is my problem. While nurses do a VERY important job it is not the ONLY important job.

The reason so many nurses have a problem with people wanting to do nursing "as a job" instead of as their "purpose in life" is because they themselves have low self esteem and need to believe they are "better" than others. Once again, nursing is FUL...

Get used to it, this happens a lot in nursing

Often people change completely AFTER you marry them or have a baby, once they feel "safe." This is a known fact in the area of domestic abuse although I am not saying that is what she is experiencing here. She does state however that her husband is...

Agreed! Devoting yourself to people who might not even spit on you if you were on fire and to an employer that would lay you off in a minute if they had to shave 100$ off their 100 thou plus a year paycheck seems not so bright to me. I am always a ...

If you were in another profession no one would probably raise an eyebrow about this. In my old field people did it all the time. IT is because is is NURSING and in nursing everything any nurse does is suspect by other nurses (the martyrs who are no...

I am from a pharmaceutics background. The pharm industry is changing but the medical industry overall is still in pretty good shape. You could look into pharm companies, bio companies all kinds of med equipment companies. They like people with bac...

There is no nursing shortage there WAS a shortage of nurses that want to work as nurses because its a stressful job but now it seems like in most places there is a shortage of jobs

I know lots of people that never did work in a hosptial and are educators in different capacity, many working for health depts. Yo could always pick up a few shifts with the hospice. If they think you can do it and you arent putting anyones life in...

I have a PhD in pharmaceutical science and an RN. I also have a hidden disablity. I had the same kind of idea you did to do nursing research and in fact I am extremely marketable, once I get some more RN experience. THe problem is I find teh worki...

Dude Why dont you post a few of these non butt wiping jobs?

My aunt is a speech language path and loves it. Everyone I know thta does it loves it. Most people seems to be trying to escape nursing, at least bedside nursing. The ones that love it are the ones that are up and out of bedside, problem is that ...

Honestly,I did not realize until my last year of school that nurses got "written up" I have never worked any professional job before where i got "written up" Why can't we just be told things, why cant there just be performance reviews, discussions?...

If you believe there is a nursing shortage you have been misinformed but, sadly you are not alone

The reason the "shortage" thing is being touted is meerly to keep salaries low, glutting the market does this. Moreover, keeping the salary low gets rid of the people that can do something else and might complain too much about importing foreign nu...

Honestly we did that too in nursing school, gave the instructors gifts. I think it is completely inappropriate that they accept gifts if you ask me. And yes I have taught at the college levels. I have never ever seen another career track where poo...

Nicole, Why all the anger? No one said you would not do you best in ANY situation., The question here is CAN an RN legally work as a sitter. Thats it, thats the question. You pit bull response is one of the reason I don't like working with nurses...

I appreciate so much your posts. I have a disability also but it is invisible so I do not have to deal with the overt discrimination as the OP does. I do not ask for any accomidations when I work , although really it would make my life easier and n...