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**I posted this as a reply in another thread, but thought maybe it would be better to make it its own thread. Sorry if this breaks etiquette/rules*** Hi, My niece is in her senior year of high school and wants to be a nurse. She rece...

Hi, My niece is in her senior year of high school and wants to be a nurse. She recently got accepted into the Health Sciences program at Rowan College at Burlington County, but I see they have a AAS.NUR program that also has an option for a BScN...

Hi! Have you checked out ACSM (American college of Sport Medicine)? They have a pretty strong voice in the health and fitness world. Their certifications include that of personal trainer, exercise specialist, and exercise physiologist (the last one r...

Hello, I would like to inquire about aspiring to be a public/community health nurse in Ontario. Is this a specialty that a new grad can get into right out of school or does it require experience somewhere else? Are there certain things that one shoul...

Thanks for replying KellyTel! That is great that you are working in the field already. I was hoping to volunteer to start, but the opportunity I was hoping to obtain eluded me. I also considered an MPH degree after nursing, but I will wait to see if ...

Hi! What is turning you off about becoming an NP? Is it the courses? Is it the working environment? You said that you always wanted to be an MD but that this is no longer possible. What makes you say this? Is it due to time, money, or that you are no...

Hi xInspiredx, I suspect that the two would be the same. Just like a bachelors of exercise science = bachelors of science in kinesiology = bachelors of phys. Ed. = bachelors of kinesiology. What matters is that the content is the same. I would sugges...

Hi! Not sure where you are located, but the message seems to be the same everywhere. The job market is pretty tough for new grade at the moment to the point where most are simply trying to get any job anywhere just to get experience. Once you have ex...

I think the tone of your original post may have just given a negative vibe. When someone says 'I don't see myself in a nursing home' I am more inclined to think that they have determined that they do not have the tenacity to excel or enjoy the role. ...

I had not thought of working in he universities. Thanks for the suggestion; I will look into it. This is all really great information guys. I really appreciate the responses. It sounds like if I can start developing relevant experience and demonstra...

That is interesting. What does school nursing entail? What is wrong with immunizations?

Thank you RiRi03! That really helps a lot. It seems like I am in for a bit of ladder climbing. Are public health positions very competitive?

Hi again, Well, I seem to be happiest when I am playing the role of a consultant to patients -- that is, educating and advising them on their health and teaching them how to make positive lifestyle choices. I also like the art of designing, administe...

Wow, thank you very much for your responses. Is public health nursing a popular field in Ontario?

Well it is probably the 'fastest growing profession' but what they fail to tell you is that it is growing in terms of the number of professionals being pumped out by the schools; in terms of the number of opportunities for said professionals, it is s...

Hi! The only job opportunities available to chiropractors at this time is private practice, which requires one to build his/her business. This is becoming increasingly harder to do, due to stagnant utilization rates of chiropractic care while the num...

There is a sub-forum specifically for nursing programs in California; have you searched it? Below is a map to reach it: Nursing in the United States --> California Nursing --> California State Nursing Programs I did a search on "accelerated BSN...

Hmm...hard to say without understanding the full context of the situation. Maybe the father thought that you were coddling his daughter too much over what he would consider a trivial cut? It would definitely make me feel bad to be talked to in a curt...

Really? In Ontario? I have seen Ontario postings for public health nurse positions that did not stipulate as much.If I focus my schooling in public health while doing volunteer/paid work in the same field, would that increase my chances of being hire...

To address another part of the OP's question, I would imagine that nurses do hang out socially so as to reinforce positive working relationships. Nursing is a stressful job, and it is nice to do fun activities with co-workers so that you don't always...

Bear in mind, also, that having such a thing on your record in one profession will likely get you banned from ALL health care professions in the future; so don't think you can be deregulated in nursing and then just hop-skip-and-jump to medicine or p...

On my first day of chiropractic college, our very first lesson was "don't have sex with your patient." Violating this rule where I'm licensed meant an automatic revocation of your license for 5 years minimum before you could even request to have it r...

Thank you for clarifying. I don't have a pm, and I usually access AN via the phone app, so I don't see notification of the edit. Thank you for confirming the edit.

Did a moderator edit my post? I could have sworn that I posted the above comments in a different thread.

Cardiac rehab would definitely be a good option. You may need to get your exercise physiologist certification with the ACSM, which requires a masters degree. There is an exercise specialist certification with ACSM that may be okay, but I am not sure ...