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I work with several pre-req nursing students and 2nd semester nursing students. I don't really have a problem with what they call themselves EXCEPT when the students attempt to act like nurses and answer or make comments on pt care. Sometimes they ta...

I was looking at some of the responses and I would like to make a statement. As a Native American/Anglo male nurse I find it amusing some of the things I hear. 1 DON refered to me as "the tan white guy". 1 pt introduced me to her gay nephew because "...

I have an EMS background so nursing was easy. The good points are stable pay and hours ( in LTC ), self worth, getting to meet some of the most interesting people in the world, the medical community, and lasting friendships. The bad things are nurses...

If you can dream it, you can do it. If you want it bad enough you can get it!! Don't let others decide for you. Being a male nurse is great and you will be suprised that a weak stomach goes away. AND there are different areas of nursing so you can f...

I have been in positions where pts thought that the CNAs and MAs were their nurses and I couldn't be their nurse because I was a man. I have also seen CNAs and MAs and CMAs ID themselves as nurses as well as nursing students call themselves nurses. I...

Ah here we go again!! That infamous Atkins study was about staffing/pt ratios not AD versus BSN. And don't we all take the same board exam?? On that note let's say ADs pass the same exam as BSNs and with less college hours. You could say with that ...

I once worked with an RN that had over 20 years at bedside. She gave me a piece of advise when I first entered nursing. "Nurses are their own worst enemy". Everyone wants to protect their pie but can't see that such behavior is self-limiting and dest...

Years ago while attending an EMS training class for BIO hazards and NBC warefare we learned of a magical solution to wash our uniforms in. Anti Bacterial DISHSOAP with CITRUS OIL. I have used it on everything from brain tissue to ETOH vomit. Yes it i...

One time at halloween I took a rubber zombie and put it in a bed. Everyone got a kick out of it because I told no one except there was a new resident in room #310. At one hospital we tied a sleeping nurse to the bed with a sheet and then paged her. ...

If some nurse gets hired because of looks so be it. My experience is that they live to regret such hiring policies. In rural areas it don't take long for the word to get out and the backlash can be very expensive. I worked with one supervisor that ga...

LTC has challenges that I didn't find at the hospital and vice-versa. I really feel that the issue is more on a level of I am better than you plus the rep of nursing homes hasn't been the best in the past. In this area LTC offers better pay and job s...

I can see the whole event!! It is better than the time of monster movies on halloween and working that night. Needed the laugh...............

Sorry to upset the apple cart folks. Some of the female professors hit on us male students or flirted extensively with us.

Sorry tejas but they were mostly the female professors.

I came from EMS and moved over to nursing after 22 years and I agree with many comments made. It is amazing that in EMS/Fire Depart. admin types are still required to spend time in the field but in nursing once out of the trenches memories fade! As a...

At the hospital where I use to work seperated the couples when caught by unit assignments or day and night shift assignments. They really didn't want to fire people because of possible backlash. I wish that nursing programs would get strict on profes...

Thanks P RN. I have one that was doomed for the dumpground that I rescued when I was an EMT/FF. We had just got our new hare traction splints. I lost the bag of triangle bandages that went with it. My niece's oldest son just passed his EMT state exam...

I made the trans from EMS to nursing and it was a challenge plus a male dealing with "men do not make good nurses". Respect works both ways people.

Years ago a friend of mine had relations with a nurse on a transfer in the back of an ambulance. I was on duty when They got back and could feel something was up. City hall got a report because they forgot to block the 2 lower windows on the back doo...

I have fond memories of the "tips" my mom and grandmother exchanged about how to keep their uniforms "acceptable". I iron my scrubs and my female co-workers find it hard to believe that I do my own laundry and iron/starch my clothes. One thing that I...

This was pre Sager and Hare splints were just coming out! It outlined the leg and you used bandages to support the leg and apply traction. You flipped the leather covered circle for the right or left leg.

Being in the medical profession for over 30 years and a third generation nurse its like hearing the stories from my mom and grandmother. In 1979 latex gloves were seldom used and what was the name of the single steel bar used to apply traction on fx ...

I also believe that the clinical experiences determine the attitude of many nurses. Some of my classmates were totally upset with the LTC and even after several years still view all LTC nurses as idiots. My friends at the local hospital ask me questi...

I have almost 15 years in LTC and I put myself through LPN school working as a CNA. Being a single male nurse in the rural setting here in New Mexico LTC offers stable employment. The local hospitals call off nurses but you don't see that in LTC. As ...

BSN requirements are based mostly on the Atkins study which was about pt to nurse ratios not pt to BSN ratios. Here in New Mexico this comes up and nurses with research behind them and the local papers have so far been able to table it. I have been a...