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My simple answer to the OP's question: Because they worked hard to get them.

Loathed being a floor nurse (like every single nurse I now work with in a specialty outpatient setting - we all agree it was awful). Very much enjoy my work now but if I'd had to stay a floor nurse I would have changed careers, without doubt. I paid ...

You are a lawyer so you already have a valuable degree. If you really wish to enter the health care field I would suggest something in the medico-legal sphere; administrative rather than floor nursing. I would suggest this for multiple reasons, many ...

I wish I was still young enough to know everything.

Physician's Assistant. If I was 20 years younger that's the way I'd be going.

I would think seriously about changing direction and pursuing graduate studies so that you can build on the excellent education you already possess and have a career that engages you and challenges you, rather than one that wears out your back and yo...

I doubt that you're stupid, otherwise you wouldn't have gotten through nursing school. For some reason you have problems with getting organized and perhaps with remembering everything you have to do when you have to do it. Unfortunately, that's a kil...

I wasn't going to post a second time but I feel compelled to do so, if only to tell you not to regret your thread. If anything, you should take it as a very useful piece of pre-nursing world experience. Take it from an experienced RN, what you have r...

I don't think I've ever seen anyone on here advising those who want to be a nurse, or even just want to work, that they are idiots. There is a lot of honesty on these boards, and it's a good thing because the truth is that nursing can often be a real...

Northern Virginia. Glut, glut, glut. Schools everywhere, pouring out new grads for the unemployment line. Sigh.

I worked with one of the country's best infectious disease specialists for a couple of years and he would always re-test a pt who reported a previous positive PPD, and if that was negative he'd order a second one straight away (two-step PPD).

400lb stroke pt. choking on a huge food bolus (her family would keep bringing her junk food). I managed to get her sitting up in bed, leaning forward, and I was kneeling behind her trying to apply the Heimlich, but I couldn't get my arms completely a...

I thought it was common knowledge that nursing is not a profession. Legally it is defined as a "professional endeavour". Like it or not, facts are facts.

It's kind of hard to hear the calling any more when you're working under several tons of bulls**t.

Community nursing project. Shudder.

"People who boast about their IQs are losers" ~ Stephen Hawking

I wanted to be a nurse from a young age. I was a very sick child and the only thing that made long hospital stays bearable were the kindness of various nurses. Of course that was a long, long time ago and things have changed a LOT. These days bedside...

You've received some excellent advice already, so I just want to add that I'm sorry this happened to you and don't let it ruin your self-esteem. With the nursing glut it is now all too easy for facilities to fire nurses, even the best nurses, any tim...

It can be really awful, and some workplaces are so toxic that they can leave you questioning your abilities, intelligence, and worthiness as a human being let alone an employee. There's an inordinate amount of holier-than-thou attitudes in nursing, a...

In all honesty, no. I say that because if I was able to go back and choose again I would not choose nursing. Don't get me wrong, I always wanted to be a nurse and I have loved aspects of the job. Despite that I could not recommend a job which has so ...

There is age discrimination in nursing, as in all fields of employment. That's not to say it's impossible to get a job as an older nurse, as long as you are physically able to handle the demands of the job (and those demands are often extensive). Wh...

I think the hardest thing to come to terms with in nursing today is acceptance of the fact that nurses are - with a few exceptions - glorified waitstaff. And I use the term "glorified" very loosely, as I have not yet heard of waitstaff ending up cove...

There is a very valid point being made in this thread, and it is that jumping quickly to denigrate another nurse's professional worth because of a mistake is one of the more unpleasant symptoms of the serious problem of an overall lowering of morale ...

Watching the movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" with my 8-year-old made me think a great deal about the way the nursing shortage was handled and subsequently turned into a rather monstrous glut.

Get off that cell phone and have the common courtesy to LISTEN to me when I'm talking to you and/or assessing you!