GTbravo

New grad on a burn stepdown. I'm getting 12 weeks of orientation; some weeks on days and some on nights with a 4 days of nurse/hospital/charting orientation. During orientation I get a biweekly stipend afterwards go to full salary with shift diffs

GA $23/hr, $3.59 nights, $5.20 weekends new grad, no exp Burns ICU

I took my test July 1st, it stopped at 75 questions and I have checked 5 times and got the good pop-up. I'm planning to check my quick results after 48hrs have passed but I'm flipping the hell out hoping that I am not one of the rare cases that the PVT didn't work for

OP I feel bad for your situation I really do. Its got to be hard for you to come here and speak so negatively about your choice in nursing. I'm not going to talk about you being bitter or anything like that. I just want to say I hope somehow things improve for you.

I pride myself on being a realist and am going to have to agree with Texas that being honest and straight forward is more beneficial than sugar coating the truth and giving false hope. However, you should want to tailor your response to your audience and having tact and respect are important as the sarcasm in the original flame war post was unnecessary.

I'm a 28 year old male currently doing my pre-reqs and a lot of my teachers have asked their students to introduce themselves; I always find this time interesting because so far I average about 5 girls will say their major is nursing and I am always the only guy. My family has a long history of many nurses only one being male so I get allot of support from them but the rest of the world not so much, I still get called Gaylord Foker by my friends and get told that I should just be a doctor instead. However, I do believe that the world is far more ready now for male nurses than say 10 years ago when I first thought of being a nurse but the social stigmas associated with the career made me choose a career in business instead.

28 and almost through with pre-reqs and If all goes according to plan should graduate at 31