RN2BnNC

i can totally dig u guys! i have to appologize as well for how my post a couple of days ago sounded...i am in no way judging how other people feel about whatever job they have.....i've come to firmly believe that everything is connected to everything in this life....what each of us does...somehow and in someway (even a very minute way) affects someone elses life. If there is one thing that my instructors love to remind us in school (and I agree although I hate being told over and over again) is that we focus on the patient from a holistic point of view and that in most settings we approach it from a multidisciplinary team approach. Meaning the patient is in the center and that one patient will have 10 + members of the healthcare team taking care of him/her whether it be the surgeon who operated on him or the nurse who looks after him on a daily basis or the Primary physician or even the physical therapist (PT) who helps rehab him.....it takes everyone!

I'm still in nursing school....i've got 42 people (5males) in my class....might be losing one or 2 people due to grades anyways...my school has close to 1000 people in it...only about 15-30 males TOTAL! i'm 30....i've had my drinking days and one night stands....i'm done with the club and bar scene....its not where i'm at anymore.... hell, most of the females i see at this school i don't even classify as women...to me they are barely out of their diapers...i realize they are at 17/18 and just graduated HS....but they all lack the maturity and overall package I look for in a woman (KEY WORD...WOMAN!) ...generally speaking I wouldn't hesitate to say that 90% of my class is between 17 and 19 and that leaves only about 5 women who are over 20...(actually married already and 35+)...OR (24+ and married)...so any way you look at it...I may have more females at this school but as for serious dating material...I think not....hell, if i were younger and not looking for something substantial and just wanted to have sex...sure i'd go out with some of these females...you know...i've got a lot of friends at this school and obviously yes they are female, but even when i was that age, I never knew how much females think of having sex...or of how devious they can be sometimes (i'm sure guys can be too but i'm talking about females right now)...I remember sitting beside a friend of mine who was talking to a bunch of her girlfriends and they were comparing the worst thing they did to their boyfriends and laughing about it....oh yeah, they were also comparing the sexiest thing about them too...I wonder what the women in our lives would do if they knew we were sitting around comparing some T&A and comparing some "conquests" they have made ...maybe who had the best vocals? or even best orator amongst the group? to be honest, I was both shocked and amazed....and i don't judge people too much ( i really try and remain open and flexible ) but 1 of these females really dropped in my book after hearing what she did to one of her boyfriends... anyways...i talk too much later

I have no idea how any other school runs...I can only attest from my own experiences at my own school. I am one of 5 males in a class of 42...since I'm taking psych nursing f(1st 8 weeks) and mother/baby (2nd 8 weeks) my class is split up. My class I'm in only has 12 people in it (3 guys....9 females)...and no matter what size class I am in...I stick out like a sore thumb...one of the first comments I get every semester is something to the effect of "oh its so wonderful to see more men entering nursing".....blah blah blah....all i am trying to say is that whether your talking about men in nursing or something else.....i wish for once it would just be PEOPLE and not male or female or black or white or asian...etc...ya know? I did have an opportunity to talk with my schools chancellor along with about 15 other guys (pretty much all the males in all the programs in the school) ....school probably has about 1000 people attending. Good odds? Bad odds? I guess it depends on your point of view. I don't know about any of you other guys but before I made some friends here...most of my male buddies and I have gotten "THE QUESTION" at least once...."are you gay?" and no I am not...and to be honest, I found it extremely insulting to automatically think a guy is gay if he enters nursing. You might as well say that no woman should be allowed out of the kitchen and into medical school. I kept my mouth shut and a couple of those females are close friends of mine now....well i better drop it before i get even more frustrated....that topic gets me going.... To be fair, even nurses and doctors at the hospitals I've done clinicals at assumed I was a doctor, until I corrected them or straightened my badge on my lab coat (which had my school badge on..HINT HINT!!) but when doing clinical prep, I dressed up in biz casual and a white lab coat? hmmm now why didn't my female classmates who dressed similarly get mixed up as physicians?? THINGS that make ya say hmmm....?? As for clashing with instructors? Oh i've done that....and Im keeping my mouth shut (i'll jump through this hoop if that gets me past you)...then I won't have to see you again....lets just say that if a clinical instructor admits to a student that they have she has no idea where any of her students she is in charge of during clinicals stands...(what they know...what they are comfortable with...) since she does not attend the lecture part of the class...then how is that person "PREPARED" for clinicals? she's not with each of us every second of the day...matter of fact there are over 10-12 of us...so she has to float in between us....anyways.... i'll stop at that....i type too much....later

Well I am a guy ;) .......cute kitty I'm still in school....*crosses fingers* waiting on december !!!! :) I just finished psych nursing and just started mother/baby today....... To be honest, I have no idea if this is going to be for me.....I am going to try and keep an open mind but just don't know.....my first instinct is to say no....but let me try it first.....who knows... personally, i think my interest lies more with the ER/CCU/Transport Nurse (a.k.a. "flight nurse" ) so to answer your question....am I considering Peds/PICU/NICU.....yes, but I have yet to make my decision....I'll update this in 8 weeks :) later

Hey there!! I'm still in nursing school ....*waiting on december to come around* B)B)B)B)B)B) I didn't have a CS degree....mine was in C.I.S. more the biz side rather than hardcore programming. When I graduated with my 4 year degree I thought I had it all planned and after getting my first 'REAL' (career oriented) job. I became a work-a-holic 14-16 hour days. I was hired on as a consultant/junior programmer and worked with databases and the company software package...extracting the info and shoving it into our software.....to say I was a desk-jockey would be putting it mildly to say the least.... i agree with what the gentleman above said that he is too much of a people person....i'm also a people person....and honestly, i didn't know if nursing was for me until I had my first nursing clinical...i was tired as crap afterwards but i can tell you that i knew it was for me... i don't know why you are considering nursing school...or where you are in your life....i can tell you that the nursing courses are nothing like any other courses i have taken before....they are intense...they are hands on...and they all build on top of each other... if you go for your ADN or BSN .....they both enable you to take the same test NCLEX-RN which if passed = RN if your just thinking about going to nursing school...i'll tell you this...i planned about 2 years ahead of it....i wanted to clear some debt before I went back to school so that my stress levels weren't going to be sky high due to money....also look around you....find out which schools offer the ADN or BSN programs (whichever you are interested in)...if you get ADN..you can do your NCLEX-RN and start working and then build to BSN....only diff BSN makes is if you want to get into mgt. later.....and then obviously graduate work if you want that....but make sure you know the DATES!!!!! of when the school you are looking at has admission deadlines....some schools admit once a year....then your scr&wed if you miss it....also some schools want you to have certain pre-req's done before you even submit an application....(this one i have found to be wisshy wasshy....i have a ton of friends taking these so called pre-req's to get into the nursing program ....at the same time they are taking their nursing courses)...my advice though is to take anything and everything you can BEFORE you get to the nursing courses so that you can FOCUS in on the nursing courses...because its class time + clinical time + study time....+ study time + study time + ???JOB??? + ???FAMILY??? you decide... oh yeah...the pro's and con's are easy... + job security + job versatility (ER nurse, ICU nurse, PEDIATRICS nurse, OSTOMY nurse..etc..) + good money + flexibility in hours + tons of cute nurses (although, I'm more of a brutishly handsome and charming sort of guy, if I do say so myself ;).........later hope this helped...