Lizzy88

I am not from the USA but I chose to live here and learned their culture, so I agree that you have to adapt to the culture of the country you are in, unless you are a tourist there. I even get mad at people who live here and don't adapt or refuses to learn. So, please if you leave your country to live in another for a better life, at least try to learn their culture. I would hate it too if it were to happen in my home country.

Hockeymom, I would like to see those type of girls being precepted by the experienced really mean nurses to see the outcome of that!!

I guess you know the answer to your question, you just want us to reassure you, go where your heart and head tell you, good luck!

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" ...chin up and glad you got out if this situation

IMHO even if the guy is lying I think you should give it a try, I mean you don't lose anything if you write to him, the worst case escenario would be that he won't respond you back. There's nothing more wonderful in life that a good relationship with your parents. Good luck

I think there is a website or an organization where you can "write up" this doctor and there are people who will review this doctor's behavior and he can lose his license to practice. You should look into it.

Unfortunately, you don't see that only in nursing but in other professions/places as well. This is an example of how some people are just plain dumb. And what bothers the most is when they think they are right...:nuke:

"Network, network and network. Make a lot of friends wherever you go, you may never know when you will need them" "Life is too short to be worrying about other people's business, worry about your own and try to enjoy your life as much as you can before you don't have the energy or time to do so" "Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today, for tomorrow may be too late" "Take care of yourself when you are young because all those junk foods and sun tans will bite you in the a$$ when you get older" "Be considerate with others and think before you speak, especially with your love ones, as you may lose contact with them because of your childish actions" .........if I could turn back time

Excuse me!!!!! Beauty is a gift from God??!!!! I think it is more like a "gift" from your mom's and dad's genes. God loves all and making someone in the outside beautiful is not His way of showing it, is making her/him humble and with a beautiful heart.

I think if you are that concerned that something may happen to you, just find another type of job. I know I would, my life is more precious to me than my beauty (if any:p) Take care :) "Beauty is in the eye of the Beerholder"

I think you don't really want to be a nurse, perhaps something or someone "push" you to do it? Reading all your posts here, I have the feeling you really dread working as a CNA and feel you will dread being a nurse, perhaps you don't have it in your heart. A lot of posts here are giving you good vibes and still you are dreading becoming a nurse. Not to be mean, but why go further when you know what you are getting into and you know you won't like it? or I may be wrong and you end up liking it. Only you know....

I am not from Nicaragua nor I know much from that country but people please! Nicaragua is not a "Jungle", it is a country like every other country, it has poor and rich people. And there are some hospitals (for low income people) where some medical technologies are a luxury but this doesn't mean the whole country lack them To the OP, if you have that opportunity I'll say go for it! I think it is better to go for a job that is being offered than waiting to get hire as the latter may take some time (as you can see a lot of new grads are struggling to find a job here in the USA). You won't lose anything because at least you will have some hands on experience. Good luck

i agree with nrskarenrn. a lot of nurses in the field right now will be retiring either when the economy picks up or when they reach their retiring age, also the baby boomers of the 60's will retire with them so a lot of influx of patients for the hospitals and hopefully a lot of jobs for nurses.

I don't know the answer to this, but let us know what comes out of this. Good luck.

I don't recall reading any of her posts so I don't really know her, but my deepest sympathy to her family. R.I.P. Daytonite :angel:

"Lizzy, there are days I'm not even monolingual! I can't speak for nursing as a whole, of course, but I have no problem with accents or some language issues. Most of the comments on this thread are about people who mangle terminology in a way that makes it seem as though they have no idea what they're talking about. If you say "oxygen sTat" then you don't understant that "oxygen sat" is short for "saturation" and that it therefore measures the amount of oxygen saturating the patient's red blood cells. I think you'll be fine :) " "We have huge respect for people who are operating in a new language, don't worry." " Absolutely, sweetie! Whenever I encounter people from other countries and they apologize for their English I always tell them "Well it's better than my Spanish, Arabic, Greek, or whatever." My problems are with people who have been speaking English most of their lives and still have very bad grammar. " Thanks guys, you are so sweet :hug:. I'll try to speak to the best of my abilities and learn all those hard medical words. I understand that misspelling or saying wrong (even a letter) a medical word can result in serious mistakes that may cost the patient's life or the nurse's pride

To Anisettes, I agree a 100% with you, sorry my post was somewhat incoherent, I was all over the place. But you are right, bullies need to be stopped otherwise they will keep on doing it. If the OP quits then on to the next victim until someone has the nerve to stop it. To the OP, go ahead do what you think is right and what you need to do to stop it, and if that doesn't work keep on trying, don't give them the satisfaction of you being defeated.

I don't know why there are so much bullying in the USA. In other countries when you bully someone they either hire a hitman to kill you (I know it sounds extreme, maybe this is not true, but I would do it...just kidding) or beat the sh** out of you right there. Of course I don't agree with those type of behaviors but the hospital should allow the ones being bullied to file a report againts the bully and after a number of reports that person should be fired. And maybe that way the bullying can stop a little. Another possible solution would be to gather a couple of other co-workers who are being bullied by the same person and confront her/his in front of the others so that she/he will feel ashamed, or stand up for yourself and ask politely---scracth politely and do it as you feel to---- to stop the bullying, or try not to pay attention to her/him and sooner or later they will grow out of it. My husband has bad temper, if I were to tell him that someone is bullying me at work without reason he would go over there confront them, insult them, and tell me to quit :hug:. I have been bullied at some points in my life but I tried to not let that bother me and I have come to the conclusion that bullies have low self-esteem and need someone to bring down so they can feel good, but there is a point where enough is enough and we have to come to a solution to stop bullies. We must stop bullies, look at the incident of the Columbine shooting, a very sad incident and yet people don't do nothing to stop bullying. "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND" "KARMA IS A B**"

Hi, if you are worried about the loan, there is always the choice of going to a community college. I also wanted to get an ABSN but because of the tuition costs I prefer to go to a CC and get the ASN, at the end BSNs and ASNs take the same exam to become an RN. However, an RN with a BSN has more job opportunities but you can work your way up. Good luck with whatever you decide

OMG! you guys are making me nervous! I am planning on going to nursing school and English is like my third language. I kind of have an accent and I am about medium fluent in English. Do you guys give sympathy to "English as a second language or third" people? :)

Wel I don't know if this have been posted here but I was surfing youtube for nursing videos and came across several episodes of this video (Dangerous Hospital). I'll just post the first one, the other episodes are just right after the first one in youtube, enjoy watching them!

thanks for your inputs. I know it is hard to get a job as a nurse right now (but I am not graduating right now), if I start for nursing school now, it'll take me about 3 or 4 years to graduate (and who knows maybe at that time things will get better, depressions don't last forever). I also want to begin taking pre-req now because the later I take them the longer is going to take me to graduate (I am not getting younger), I don't have any kids now(that's why I am deciding into going to nursing school now) but I do want to have some in the future but not when I am 40 years old. Our mistake was to buy 2 houses when the economy wasn't that bad and we are worried about the other one if we are not able to rent it. There are too many factors that have me in this situation that's why is not easy for me to make a decision. But thanks everybody for your inputs. P.S. NickB I admire your perseverance. texasnurse2011 that's my thinking too, and also I hate sales (you are working your a** off to make a commission while the company gets rich. But the sacrifices we have to make sometimes to pay the bills).

Thanks for your replies, I know I am the one who has to make the decision, just wanted some support, advise, and/or opinion. I think in the long run nursing is the better choice, as I never imagined myself as a sales person (I don't like sales) , I also know that nursing school is not easy and requires a lot of determination and sacrificies, I'm up for that(I don't have children yet so that helps a little bit). Since I was determined to go to nursing school I began researching about what nursing entails: that it is really stressful most of the times and that you do have to wipe butts when there are no aides to do that or just to help, and that the hospital's politics suck, in other words, nursing is not a walk in the park. I have been watching YouTube videos too and I'm everyday log into allnurses. I know hospital nursing is not the only place for nurses to work at, I have considered too dr's offices or community centers (I know that the pay is less but I don't mind that much). The problem are the bills to be paid and the mortgage, I don't want to lose the house, if I take the insurance job I may like it or I may not, if I don't like it I would have lost the chance to take the summer class and that would delay me. But ahhhh why everything in this life has to do with money!( stupid question I know) I'll keep reading any other comments and I'll talk about it with my husband until I reach a decision. I'll keep you posted.

Hi, I have posted before regarding concerns about me going into nursing, but just last week I got an interview to sell car insurance. Ok, here's my situation, since last year I was planning to go to nursing school but haven't had the chance to do it(work, got off track, etc.), and just this year I finally decided I was going to do it! As I said in other posts, my husband got laid off last year and is collecting unemployment and I got a part time job (we barely can make our payments with that). I met a nice guy(he sells insurance) in my part time job and told him I was looking for another job and he told me that his boss was looking to hire someone to sell insurance so he told me to go the next day for an interview with his boss, I didn't have the nerve to refuse (to tell the truth I don't really like sales and I don't know if I am going to like it), so I went to the interview and I have a high chance to get the job, but with some conditions: that in 4 months I have to get the license to sell and after that I have to work for him for a year. If I take this job I won't be able to go to nursing school as this is a full time job. Next week I will be expecting his call to tell me when to begin to work and also next week my CC school begins registration classes for the summer. Before this interview I was/am planning to take A&P I (will have to make a sacrifice and pay it out of pocket as I don't qualify for financial aid because I have a BBA) this summer to get my plan into going to nursing school started. I just asked a nice guy, member of allnurses who used to sell insurance and he practically told me that insurance sales is very unethical and I don't like that much. But what I am really debating is that I really WANT to go into nursing(a nurse friend told me that I would make a great nurse) but we also need a steady income to pay our bills and a mortgage(soon my husband's unemployment will run out and we don't know his chances of getting a job, he is getting stress out and worried about our financial situation). AHH, this situation would be easier for me if my husband were working but he is struggling to find a job. Don't know what to do, any suggestions? I need to decide before this weekend. Thanks. P.S. I posted this in another thread without realizing it is almost dead in there and I really need some suggestions before this weekend, sorry for the double post.

Hi, I have posted before regarding concerns about me going into nursing, but just last week I got an interview to sell car insurance. Ok, here's my situation, since last year I was planning to go to nursing school but haven't had the chance to do it(work, got off track, etc.), and just this year I finally decided I was going to do it! As I said in other posts, my husband got laid off last year and is collecting unemployment and I got a part time job (we barely can make our payments with that). I met a nice guy(he sells insurance) in my part time job and told him I was looking for another job and he told me that his boss was looking to hire someone to sell insurance so he told me to go the next day for an interview with his boss, I didn't have the nerve to refuse (to tell the truth I don't really like sales and I don't know if I am going to like it), so I went to the interview and I have a high chance to get the job, but with some conditions: that in 4 months I have to get the license to sell and after that I have to work for him for a year. If I take this job I won't be able to go to nursing school as this is a full time job. Next week I will be expecting his call to tell me when to begin to work and also next week my CC school begins registration classes for the summer. Before this interview I was/am planning to take A&P I this summer to get my plan into going to nursing school started. I just asked a nice guy, member of allnurses who used to sell insurance and he practically told me that insurance sales is very unethical and I don't like that much. But what I am really debating is that I really WANT to go into nursing(a nurse friend told me that I would make a great nurse) but we also need a steady income to pay our bills and a mortgage(soon my husband's unemployment will run out and we don't know his chances of getting a job). AHH, this situation would be easier for me if my husband were working but he is struggling to find a job. Don't know what to do, any suggestions? I need to decide before this weekend Thanks :redbeathe P.S. Sorry for the title I meant insurance sales or nursing...oopps