danceswithsnakes

I see a place called US Career Institute that offers an online program with a 4 week practicum in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Is this worth anything or a joke? I'd like to do massage therapy alongside my regular job, but I would like to be able to charge ...

I have a personal relationship with an emergency room physician who I think I could learn a lot from (he oversees a chest pain urgent clinic). I am in a program to become an Adult/Gero primary care NP. I haven't asked the school yet (University of So...

I recently was having a meeting with my immediate boss and the administrator over another issue. Not only did I not resolve the issue (though I know why) my appearance was also brought up. I'm tired of totally boring and unstimulating tasks I'm being...

No offense to anyone in their 50's (we are all heading that way, after all) but I'm 35. I think of wearing dowdy, stuffy black pantsuits or pants at all (I like dresses) or even black business skirts and I become very depressed, it's not me at all. T...

I don't like flats, they make me look even frumpier. I've been told I'm "all boobs" so there will be no getting around that. I did find a large enough bra that supports me well and makes me look thinner. But the shoes, I like platform high heels...

I would like to liven up my office, which is located at a LTC facility. Another office worker sometimes brings her little dog to work and it stays in her office. I happen to like all animals and am especially fond of reptiles, but people shreek when ...

I brought some pictures of my snake (Nanook) to work and showed them around. One nurse said it wouldn't bother her a bit, another nurse said she would like make a new opening in the building in the shape of a person, I got several "hmm...s", and one ...

As I read this a mischievious grin spread across the face of my alter-ego. Bad! Bad! Bad! Smack! Smack! Smack! I think it will be a no go once it gets to the administrator for approval. I guess I can still have pictures. I do have a tame and friendly...

Yes, he would be in a tank. I have a beautiful terrarium and It would fit perfectly next to my computer. I would like to keep him here. I don't handle him very often but he has never stricken out or bitten. I think ball pythons are magnificent creatu...

Becoming a doctor is 100x more difficult than becoming a nurse, which is why I'm a nurse and not a doctor, but that still shouldn't mean that a nurse's job is somehow less important. I'm proud to be a nurse, and no one will ever take that away from m...

I worked 10 yrs. in a nursing home and decided I wanted a change. I kept hearing that being a LTC nurse had held me back, made me undesireable. I landed a job at a small hospital and I can tell you, aside from starting IV's and pushing certain IV med...

I am being targeted by a bully at work, who has been nit-picking, spreading malicious gossip and trying to isolate me and make life hell. I have done nothing to deserve this behavior, and it makes me angry, to the point of going from an eager and pos...

Yet you conveniently omitted the rest of my post on that...

It's much, much nicer (and more truthful) than what she has said about me.

Um...I didn't start this thread. Or are you trying to make another point, argument, etc.?

I don't know who read I accused a whole unit of people bullying me and where, but that has not happened...must be some misunderstanding. To (attempt to) make a long story short, this is a pattern of behavior with this person, not just an incidence of...

Right now, I'd rather be right. I have more to lose than my job. My child is in a wonderful daycare and any other job I would find would make me have to uproot everything, including my seniority. I do want this bully (and if need be) the DON exposed....

I have above average looks myself, and I've wondered if this may be one of the reasons (I'll just nicely call her a post menopausal, crispy-crunchy from the tanning bed, gossipy, nasty skank) hates me so much, because she recently succeeded in seeing...

There is one nurse (lower on the chain than I am, but has wormed her way into a position where she feels superior) and she dislikes me very much. I recently learned she has been spreading a vicious rumor about me as well. I have done NOTHING to her, ...

I work with a woman who has mental health issues and is in a bad relationship. She had a one-night stand and is pregnant and can't get in touch with the father (she knows he is the father, says he is the only one she has been with in months.) She com...

It keeps me awake at night. That baby will be unwanted, for sure by her husband. She had said her husband told her if she was ever pregnant by another man she would have an abortion or he would drown the baby...I guess it's getting too real for her n...

Things like that used to eat at me but anymore...I don't lose 30 seconds sleep over it. I probably would have responded and told the truth about why I didn't get him Tylenol at the drop of a hat and left it at that.

Among being a nurse practitioner student, I'm taking a course to become a licensed massage therapist. This is not a question about massage therapy, but a question more about how to advertise one's self, whether it is as a LNC, LMT, etc.. I am thinkin...

I was looking through the licenses for massage therapists on the state licensing site. Unlike nurses, there is a practitioner profile which gives the name of the institution they graduated from. Interestingly, I notice that several LMTs have a school...

Several forms of massage are indeed used to treat pain...neuromuscular massage, for example, as well as hydrotherapy. Reflexology is also used to treat pain.