daisymae0

i live in south texas where the majority of the population is hispanic. i work where spanish is spoken predominantly and my coworkers are more comfortable speaking spanish than english. i have picked up more spanish in the last few years than i ever did in school. most of my coworkers don't know that i know spanish as well as i do. i do agree with most that english should be learned when someone immigrates here. now i have found out that a lot of people who do speak spanish do know and understand english very well and just don't want to speak it. i have seen that sense of entitlement that most of you have talked about here and it does nothing but irritate me to no end. that's why i have absolutely no problem speaking to someone in english who speaks spanish back to me.

if it is i'm defintely changing my major!!! LMAO

i was trying to decide the something a while back and i'm choosing nursing. for this simple reason that if i'm going to pharmacy school i'm NOT going to work in retail no matter the money.

i just wanted to thank you guys for this. it makes me feel like i've made the right decision about applying to nursing school.

this is what makes me very scared to go into the nursing profession.

Thanks everyone for the answers and support. It was excatly what I was looking for. I'm looking for a career that is more fulilling than being a desk jockey for the rest of my life. My job now can be crazy but I have learned several skills including, lol, how to bite my tongue. It seems like everyday my brain is slowly being sucked out of my head by ******* (insert your own words) people who can't think for themselves on a regular basis.

I know every job has it's problems and issues, but it seems like everyone goes to work walking on eggshells. I thought that there was some degree of professionalism in nursing. There has to be enough pressure to just going to work and care for people in the most awful time in their lives without having to worry if you say something wrong or don't impress the right person you can lose your job.

I've been scavenging this site for more than 3 months now since I've decided to become a nurse. I'm 2 classes away from applying to a program. Now I'm really reconsidering it. I have read time and time again about problems w/co-workers, black-balling, back stabbing, getting suspended or fired for basically no reason, problems w/management, and nurses who really don't care what they do. There hasn't been a lot of posts highlighting the good side of nursing. I know that no job is perfect, but is this really the norm? Honestly my job now is full of all these problems and then some, and I've had enough of it. I used to enjoy going to work, but now it's full of people who will stab you in the back and then walk all over you to get to the top. If working in nursing is going to be the same way what's the use of spending the next 2+ years working my a-- off to be in the same position I'm in now...

check this out: www.vct.org. this is for texas colleges only. it's a database of community colleges that offer online classes. you can actually take a class from another college and recivce credit at your college. i've done this a few times when classes at my school were full.

I had a tmoblie dash which is a windows based smart phone. it had windows office mobile. which was pretty cool because i could take pictures in A&P make a powerpoint slide show and put the file on my phone instant flash cards! I typed notes in windows word and was able to look at them on my phone. I would at least look at a windows based smart phone from htc. I don't know how compatible windows based smart phone are with downloadable books and nursing software but most software will tell you which operating systems it's compatible with. I know that blackberry's and plam treo are popular too but i couldn't stand to use either one. Make sure that if you spend the money on a good phone make sure that it can take a memory card. That way you can expand the memory of your phone and keep everything in one place.

bump it

One word of caution he may resent you for having the better job. I know my husband does. We've been together for 10 years and it hasn't gotten easier. Just make sure that you can stand on your own 2 feet incase your boyfriend decides to split.

I wear the heavy shaping pantyhose when it really gets cold here. Check out legluxe.com has some interesting stuff.

I've seen thread after thread about how new nurses can't find jobs right now. Since I'm "planning" getting into a nursing program next year I was curious. Does anyone see a turnaround in the job market within the next 3-5 years?

Boy I hope I get preceptors like you guys. From what I've read here it's amazing that anyone has time to text, email, much less go to the restroom during the day.