MaverickMac

Actually I really like the way you explained that! I agree EMS Is based heavily on "algorithims" where nursing is much more detective work. I think they both have there place!

Hey there I wanted to ask if any of the students who were EMT's have found that your training and experience has helped you immensely with nursing school. I just know there has been a couple of times, where instead having to come really dig for an answer when it comes to pt. care you just fall right into the ABC framework. I know everybody in our class knows it, but I feel like it wasn't explained enough to students who don't have experience or have never had to really apply it? I'm sure this seems convulated, I'm curious to see if you anybody else has picked up on that. It's not that others won't know it they just wont know when to apply it?

It's still mostly people imagine a hospital like it was 20 years ago. The image (right or wrong) was nurses were women and M.D's were men. I live in Wyoming where the old ways are still very prevelant. Like It's really hard for a car salesmen to take a woman seriously when she tries to buy a car. Old prejudice of well go get your husband to come in and talk with me. So silly stuff like that, theres a surgeon who looks like me, at least once a day I get called Doctor....

No I've had similar comments made to me. The super ironic thing is my clinical site is also where I work. So I know the staff and maybe it's just my hospital but in general a lot more females then males. The women make plenty of jokes on this, usually relating too much estorgene or something.

we started out with 40 students total and 5 guys. Depending on how the final ends up it could just be me and 30ish students.

Hey there, I was a Pre-med Student before I ended up with a wife and kid that, forced me to get a degree now as compared to later. So thats how I ended up in nursing school. There's a possibilty I may still shoot for med school. For odder reasons then you may think, I've met great people in healthcare, Nurses, MD's, EMTs, etc. Some of the people that have really been awesome to me though has to be MD's I live in a smaller community so the entire Hospital knows everybody and such. So it's odd working with some of these people and they are just so intelligent and still so friendly then you run into them at the grocery store, and there asking if you want to go fishing? There's a really good account some where online about an RN who went to Einstein med for his MD he has a really good outlook on it. Some of reasons it still crosses my mind, is that if these people can work so hard and still retain that personable self or even grow it I'd love to see that in myself. The other reason and I'm sure people can agree is that you find medicine cool. Like whoa you mean to tell me the human body does XY or Z or that malaria is protozoan and can be asymptomatic if it's this type? I think if I ever get in ( Assuming I decide to every try for it) It's going to be to learn even more... I think one of the larger issues that arises from the whole RN VS MD thing is that the people who have to quantify their value over another class speak the loudest. While I think the people who realize it's not about the accolades and never should be, are too busy with this awesome thing called medicine and trying to help people with it. Goes back to the whole blanket statement issue, All MD's are egotisical, or All RN's are just about care theory.

So I noticed you've got your Paramedic? I'd say apply it the same way you did it an EMS nobody lifts, or pulls until everybody lifts and pulls. I was having this discussion with an NP at my last physical, she pointed out rather quickly that If I wasn't really careful I'd kill my back fast. I'm not a big guy, but i'm fit. So I get asked a lot for lifts and such. Just really stress the whole if you need extra help then I can if you will.

Hey I'm sorry that turned out so weird man! I got really lucky in that all my OB patients were hospital staff. I can see how the whole staring thing was ackward for everybody involved, But i'd fight this one, here's why your a student!!! We don't go to school to do everything right, we go to learn, make mistakes, learn more, etc. etc. As long as you weren't showing blatant intentional disrespect or rudeness. Staring sounds to me like freezing up which we all do at somepoint. Some more then others. I'd take a look at your policy handbook see what action you can take. I don't know how much time you've put in to get where you are but i'm sure it's worth something too you. Best of luck either way, don't let bad experiences steer you away from medicine we need good people!

So I know the natural progression for most ADN grads is to go get the BSN, The University of Wyoming ( I live in wy) offers a great ADN to BSN program. Now I'll probably be enrolling in it. I wanted to see if anybody else has found that having a different bachelors degree besides nursing has been more beneficial or has helped them more? Like a Business degree or ( don't hit me too hard) A "hard" science degree like physics or chemistry? I know most BSN's require some intro chem, stats, and Bio, but i mean harder like Organic chem 2 or calc based physics. I only ask because while I'm looking forward to being an RN I have no intention of stopping there, I'm not entirely positive what would come after weather that be NP, CRNA, MBA or J.D. I just wanted to shoot the breeze and see what people were thinking?