You're so very right. And a lot of the public voice of Christianity here sounds like so much sales talk. I suppose it's not that strange that my distaste for the "no, but have you been born again"...
Exactly how is nursing supposed to be a way of "increasing the Kingdom of God"? I thought the idea was to, you know, help people get through illnesses. People aren't actually proselytizing to...
Alright! Thanks, ladies, for bumping me on the forehead lightly about the "gender doesn't have anything to do with the watch I wear" issue. Thanks for the feedback. That's an interesting point,...
Personally, my deepening religious (and spiritual) life is part of what is propelling me towards nursing. I've essentially been becoming more and more active the Episcopal Church over the last two...
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I just went through two Mantoux sticks for my volunteer assignment here in the hospital. I had a positive stick back in my teens, so I talked quite a bit with the nurse who was administering the...
An actually quite serious question: Is there really so much frustration in nursing? Between nurses and MDs, nurses and nursing admin, between men and women, between women and women, between days and...
Hello. Chiliwings just directed me over here from another thread. Yup, I'm another IT guy on his way towards nursing. I got in to Java programming at the start of the bubble, in '95, fresh out of...
So, what I've seen about the GRE is that it's actually easier than I thought. It looks about the same as the SAT, but we haven't been in school in ages. Also, the other thing that I've seen is that,...
Yeah, I sort of had a flash about this back in February, so I've *just* gone back to school for the first time in 9 years to take Biology 101 so I can get into A&P. I'm going to have to crank...
Seems to me there's good male nurses and bad male nurses, and good female nurses and bad female nurses, and patients who wouldn't want a male around and patients who don't care so much. How can you...
There seem to be a couple of similarities. The primary qualities of a good software engineer are assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Sound familiar? :) I'm writing software for a...
Wow, TopCat! That's incredibly helpful. Thanks. Fortunately I didn't have to take out loans for my first Bachelors (parents planned very carefully for our educations, thanks be to God) so that's all...
so far i'm really liking it. i wish i could get a volunteer coat that actually fit me, but i guess volunteer services has to do laundry first. i feel like i've already learned a ton of things, both...
I've been looking around at accel. and direct entry programs, both BSN and MSN. I already have a degree (in History, '95, University of California - Santa Cruz). I'm living in Seattle, but I don't...
I assume it has something to do with a long history and perception of men's sexism and abuse of women. Perhaps. Either way, it just occurred to me there have been several North African Muslim women on...
Well, I'm just feeling out this whole nursing thing while I work on pre-reqs, but I'm volunteering on a postpartum/newborns floor right now, and none of the mothers seem to mind. Admittedly, it's not...