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Hi folks. My questions in this thread are actually more serious than they'll seem... We've discussed at length here how awesome it is to be a young, hot nurse. Well, how about if you're old and ugly? The first strike against me is I'm male. The s...

As someone who has worked in IT for some time, this seems a bit fishy to me as well. I'm not a nurse yet, so I don't know what sort of system you are using. In general practice a charting system (which is essentially a database) should have a permi...

You could just become an old/experienced nurse like they are. Then you'd have the same perspective and you'd see it from their end

Hard work and sacrifice. Heavy emphasis on the sacrifice.

(Interrupting the teacher during a discussion about parasites in Microbiology class) "You don't have to worry about triganosis [sic] anymore. It has been completely bred out of modern pigs"

Just curious, and I know this has no bearing on anything here... Are the men explicitly forbidden from wearing them? Because I would probably wear one just to be funny and cute. But that's the kind of silly guy I am. However, what if some find tha...

This is either: 1) a funny coincidence because I too have a hot 22-year old girlfriend, or 2) proof that the ignoramus is actually right, because my girlfriend is 22 and I am shall we say some amount of years older and wiser. I guess that makes me...

The school recruiter seemed as if he (yes, he) was trying to talk me out of going into Nursing when I went in for some advice. He kept saying "I don't know that you'd enjoy it" or "Are you sure you're really cut out for a non-traditional career?" an...

I hope that this is a myth, because aside from being incredibly painful, I suspect there is a potential for some real soft-tissue injury. Anything from a nasty purple-black bruise to a damaged blood vessel that could become permanently discolored an...

I know this is a pre-nursing rant, but I'm posting it here as I was hoping to get more experienced replies. If this is wrong, I won't be upset if it gets moved. I apologize that it is a bit long. I'm not a Nurse, nor am I in a Nursing Program just ...

After next semester, I can test for a CNA license. I was planning on working or volunteering as a CNA (as a second job) during the time I'm on the waitlist (it averages 2 years at my school).

I was going to ask, "with all the booksmarts and amazing intelligence, why did you choose Nursing and not something like Neuroscience?" If you really want to do health-care related things but not so much hands-on stuff, there's plenty of academia-lev...

Thanks Susie2310. Your response makes me feel a bit better. Ever other occupation I've ever worked has been something where I'm basically thrown into the fire and it's up to me to figure out how to survive. I don't know how much of this happens t...

If you want to see someone get rude and judgmental, I could give it a whirl. Consider me being 'polite' by stopping here.

Ok, three things that I have to share for now. Two are school related, one is not. 1) There is a girl in my Micro class right now. From context clues I gather that she spent one or more summers in Greece, which is admirable and enviable, yes. Howe...

Well, there's always the flavored yogurts too. I hear strawberry and chocolate are popular. Maybe tzatziki sauce would work in a pinch?

Ugh... Maybe I'm just a crotchety old man, but if I had any authority over that class I would have ejected her from the program. It's one thing to get that far and be so misinformed, but it's another to be so self-assured that she won't be correcte...

I've discussed before that seeing someone vomit, viewing a vomit lake or otherwise knowing of a vomit event illicits entirely the wrong reaction from me- it gives me the giggles. This is much worse than being grossed out by it. I'm sure that the l...

The difference is that "female circumcision" as it is called is complete removal of the clitoris, with the goal of greatly reducing or eliminating any ability of the woman to obtain sexual pleasure. It is often done in unsanitary conditions (with hi...

I'm a pre-nursing student, currently in a Microbiology class. I like it, and it's great! In one of the labs, we were doing tests on vials of urine to determine if they have or don't have a possible STI or UTI. During this session, a fellow stude...

Whimsically: If I were financially independent, I would become a career student. Realistically: Electrical Engineer, programmer, mechanical engineer. Or put it all together and call it robotics. I still fiddle with this stuff on the side, but I ...

Oh another rant! I hear so often the "OH EM GEE, WE GONNA MAKE SO MUCH MUNNYYYYY!!!!!!!111oneoneoneoen. MY SISTER SAYS THAT IN MINNEAPOLIS NEW GRADS ARE GETTING HIRED FOR $75,000 + SIGN ON BONUS AND YOU MAKE SIX FIGURES WITHIN TWO YEARS!!! LOLOLOLOL...

This is actually a weird class, regarding classmates. Not in this lab, but in Lecture there are 4 girls at one table that often admit that they're becoming a nurse so they can find a doctor to marry. I thought that this was just a joke on Allnurses...

I wouldn't go that far. But I agree with the rest of your comment- The actual program might shake these folks out.

Wow you guys. Thanks for the tsunami of replies. I didn't expect this. I should enunciate that I wasn't feeling depressed nor trying to do a 'woe is me' type post (at least not this time ) I see how it can look that way, though. I appreciate the ...