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Chinese did not close any companies in the USA- American owners of those companies did it. And I bet all of the people complainig about influx of cheap goods from overseas love to shop at Walmart. Also, while wars cost tremendous amount of money, foreign aid constitutes 0.16 % of the GDP, and contributes pretty much nothing to the deficit.

Duh! It was supposed to be harsh. We are all adults here.

Is anybody else as sick of this whining about nursing jobs as I am? This feeling of entitlement is totally killing me. Nobody is guaranteed job in this country at all, and we may yet live through even worse economy than we have now. Regardless of what happens, being a nurse is a respectable profession that is portable and actually has one of the better chances of finding jobs right out of college. But this constant complaining about inability of some new graduates to find jobs makes me think that people just slept through 2009-2010. Maybe this is a news to some folks but economy crashed and burned, and is still smoking.

I wish to thank all of you for posting in this forum. You drove me crazy, but also provided me with information, and helped pass the time until we all hear about the scholarship. I just got the email informing me I won the scholarship, and wanted to share my gratitude and happiness with all of you. Wishing you all the best of luck in the nursing school.

This is a bunch of baloney from people who profit by having nurses overworked and under-payed. It doesn't make any sense, even to people who are not RNs. I'm not even sure what their point is, except to 'carry water' for health care executives and financial managers.

Is anyone else kid of sick of this 'jobs is not waiting for me, what shall I do' complaints? Are people living in a bubble? Do they not hear the news? There is 10% unemployment in the USA, which pundits now are saying is 'structural.' Structural unemployment means that there are 10% of working age Americans that are , simply put, a human surplus. On the other hand, nurses, even the brand new ones, are still able to find jobs, albeit not as easy as they were able to do a few years ago. And when an RN has had some experience, there are tons of jobs. If there is some other profession like RN, with good work and good pay right out of college, I'd love to know about it.

I have the same issue, and here's what I know from personal experience. Most of the people who had BCG vaccine will have exaggerated reaction mimicking TB infection. My family physician told me not to get any more skin tests, and just to have chest x-rays. Since 2005, there has been a new skin TB test, QuantiFERON®-TB Gold, but as far as I know, it is not widely used. This test can distinguish between tuberculosis antigens and tuberculosis infection. You may want to ask if your institution is willing to use this test. Here's the link with more info about QuantiFERON®-TB Gold test: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5415a4.htm

What's up with questions like this? It is not like you want to get pregnant: your brain, unlike your ovaries, never stops working. I'll be (God willing) starting my masters when I'm 50. My friend, who is 57, is just starting law school. Money, also, need not be a hurdle: most hospitals I've looked at will partly pay for your tuition. Stop pondering, just go do it.

Hello my fellow students! Just wanted to thank all of you lovely, OCD people for making me look into my spam folder, where my first email from HRSA was hiding. You are the best, and I hope many, many of you will get this scholarship (including me, of course).

Yes, why are you asking? quote=K nurse-one-day;4425485]Jesus! Liberal much?

Original post is a classical example of selfishness that is being elevated to the point of virtue in this country. It is not controversial to say that one believes healthcare is a commodity: that is the point that both Republicans (and some Democrats) as well as better part of conventional media promote every single day. To say that healthcare is commodity implies that if one is not well-to-do enough, one is free to die, even if treatment is available. To me, that is not a world I want to live in, but a savage utopia ultra-rich conservatives are propounding, and to many people are falling for, not understanding it is not in their best interest. PetiteOpRN assumes that she will always have healthcare, will not fall on hard times, and that this is somehow proof of her virtue. Well, OK, anyone is entitled in to their opinion. To assert, though, that advocating for a healthcare as a right is "to advocate for slavery" is a willful ignorance of someone who doesn't understand (and doesn't care to understand) what is slavery, what is commodity and what is basic decency.

Eric, I have one comment to your post: pffft! If you believe nurses are more like McDonald workers than, lets say, pharmacists, I'd like to know where you work, and avoid the place at all costs, either as a RN or a patient. Issues you list to support your opinion are not matter of professionalism, but political problems stemming from healthcare being treated as a commodity and not right. Not to mention that employers (which are out for profit, and not providing the best healthcare) very successfully manipulate the fact thar there is massive amount of self-loathing (as evidenced in lots of replies to this post) in the nursing workforce which prevents them from organizing and exerting pressure to improve both workplace and their status. I'm actually pretty amazed that California nurses (which are, by the way, best payed in the nation) managed to get such a strong union going, considering what obstacles they had to deal with. There are about three million nurses in the nation: we are the largest group of workers in the USA. If there is solidarity and will to stand for the profession (or trade, if you will), you would not have to clean wastebaskets, and would have patient workload that is in the best interest of the patient, not the profit. If that is to happen, nurses need to take pride in what they are doing, and demand to be treated as professionals that they are. One thing, though, I can do away with: silly nursing diagnoses. They sound like something from Monty Python.

Flu shot clinic immunization seems like a pretty good way to get some experience. We did practice on each other, which made me more nervous. We will also practice on each other intravenous shots and I guess, maybe even starting IV lines. Not until next semester, though, so I hope to be a bit less nervous in the meantime.

Hello fellow student nurses! I've just given my first two shots (sub-q and IM) today, and was pretty nervous doing it. Luckily, my partner was very cool, so it all went relatively good. I'm generally not a nervous type, so I'm curious: when did you start feeling comfortable giving injections? Did you get enough practice in clinicals?

Lisa, if you are foreign, you must have permanent residency (green card) and you have to pass TOEFL test. You will also need all your previous diplomas (high school, college) submitted to college. You should translate them to English, and then make copies and have them notarized before submitting. I'm foreign myself, and I go to Mercy, so I went through all of these steps. School officials are very helpful, so you should definitelly call them and ask for more details.