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What motivated me to quit my job for a nursing career in psychiatry is a book called Welcome to my country wrriten by Laura Slater as well as my degree in Psychology.

I agree with cyber kat, i am ex F/A (hence the name) who just left his job last week. There are many F/A around and believe it is exactly the SAME. And working online is the same too. people doubt about their job, it doesnt make them happy. They found their work environment bitchy and hard. It isnt just in nursing, i bet you in the same in other sectors/industries.

I understand yoru problem because i am french but i have spent all my adult life in London, i ve done my BSc Psychology in the UK as well, and everytime i wanna talk about a psychology topic with french people, i just can't find the french equivalent as i have never learnt it in the first place. They look at me weird and wonder if i really studied Psychology!

Why do you need help from a male student? Females are not outcast, you know!

To start with, parents should always support their children's choice, as long as it is a legal and decent one , maybe he would have prefered to be told that your career inspiration was to sell your body? Try that next time. Honnestly, i dont know your father but he is an idiot. May i ask his profession? Lawyer, Judge, Surgeon, Astronaut, FBI agent??? What did he want you to do? In what a nursing career is bad choice, try to ask him all those questions in a calm way if that is possible at all.

Well, as i have said before, i prefer to be working with girls than boys but again it depends. Regarding the straigh/gay thing i never had any problem with straight collegues. Of course, as a F/a straight guys expcted to be on the minority side! And in fact there was more tensions between straight guys themselves as with gay people, they did not see them as being a competitor (for girls!). I know a lot of gay nurses are gay. However, as a future psychiatric nurse student i am dreaming of working in a forensic setting, say a prison or high security hospital, and there, i expect to have some negative experiences.

Would see being the only male student in your class a problem? I ve always done "female" jobs in the past so i am used to be on the minority side, doesnt bother at all. As a F/A i much more prefered to fly with girls than boys anyway. Having said that, in psychiatric nursing in the uk, 30% are male apparently, more than in Adult or other branches.

Hi guys, i am starting nursing school next year. I will be 29 years old then. I am kinda worry to be seen as an old fart. I know some people start their nursing studies later but what is the AVERAGE age?

Hello Girls, That is, assuming you are girls!! Anyway i did also suffer a lot because of those bloody kidney stones. I had 4 lipso, i went to E.R at least 15 times within 4 years. My last major kidney stone crisis was on a plane 8 months. I decided to go on the web and follow the weird advices of some people also suffering from kidney stones. I drank aloe vera juice and took some magnesium pills, it seemed to work but the BEST ADVICE was definitely to drink at least 2 liters of water a day AND AND AND LEMON JUICE. Drink at least the juice of one or two lemons a day, it is a desinfectant and prevent kidney stone formation or/and it does reduce the size of the existing stone. i havent had any problem since december last week which is a miracle for me as i was suffering from the stones at least every 2 months even if sometimes i didnt need hospital treatment. If i dont drink my lemon juice for like 4 weeks , my urine becomes more red and then i suspect a nasty kidney stone so i drink 4 or 5 lemon a day for 4 days and then, after a small pain when i urinate (which i assume is the stone flushing out) everything is back to normal. Hope this advice will help you.

That's it i have resigned from my job and i am getting ready for my new career, i am supposed to start my mental health nursing course in January. Some people think i am doing the right thing as i have a degree in psychology, some think i am plain crazy to leave the airline industry for a nursing job! I hope i am doing the right thing. I just need to do something a bit more challenging that asking people "tea" or "coffee", or "chicken or beef"? I know a lot of nurses actually go into the airline industry as airline like people coming from a nursing background. The reality is the airline industry is not doing so well, working conditions are appaling and the job stability is just not there at all. At least, i would like to think, nurses rarely are out of jobs. Tell me i am right!!! Anyway, i am one of yours now, well..soon!