Terpole

To the posters knocking the OP, I would say give him/her a break, but you guys might be on the money. From the inference of the post, it's about quickly becoming a nurse but yet not doing something really related to the bedside experience, or care in...

I wouldn't do it. Financial security is something very important nowadays. You will be paying to go to school to work in a field upon starting out will halve your current salary. Major point to think about. Of course everybody should pursue their dre...

You certainly have vaild points. The wide range of nursing positions, some of those things are true, and then none of them are true. Mostly your concerns are experienced at the bedside, but this is the frontlines of nursing where your experience will...

Anything to do with astromony. The size and complexity of the cosmos never ceases to amaze me.

That pretty much sums it up. Maybe you have feelings that draw you away from bedside nursing? Do you have problems on the job? I just think something else is afoot to consider such a move which provides little to your nursing career (unless you're th...

I shall PM you with some info

So you're saying that the high turnover rate is due to the education of nurses? The education of nurses has no bearing on the situation dealing with staffing issues, too-sick-for-the-floor patients, and other institutionalized conondrums the post-gra...

How can you be sick of nurses who are displeased with their job and haven't spent one day doing what they do? I'm sorry to tell you but nursing burnout is real, the stress from some jobs is palpable, and sometimes shows up in a person's life in real ...

I agree that it will be difficult to get an objective response on a nursing board. I would say that with knowledge being the currency of this generation, you can't go wrong with more education, being a dentist IMO.

Well said!

I completely agree with the OP and most of posts on the first page (long night last night, too tired to read all the other stuff in between). It's time for a reflection after this first year, to ask ourselves questions. Do I really want to do this? W...

Nursing school is nothing like how your job will be. In school, things exist in sort of a perfect vacuum. The term is akin that you have everything you need to practice, medicine has no influence (things are strictly about nursing), and everything is...

not a lot, really

I know as a man it will not be an easy road in nursing, (I'm in my 3rd year in a 4 yr BSN program) but will the military be a nicer path? I've been warned of some real characters (and have already met some) out there in the private sector and I would...

I think that would've been my last day, on that floor, in that hospital, and probably in this field.

It sounds like you work at TMH. I was a nurse extern too, and I've only heard of one floor where the nurse extern works as a NURSE extern and not a nurse specialty TECH. This is how's it's going to be. The part that really sucks is you actually get p...

I have heard from new graduates that they are having a harder time than past new grads of finding a job. Everybody is cutting back, including health care

Sir you and I sound like equals. I remember disliking the "results of metabolism" as a PCA while working in nursing school. I didn't fret too much because I was told that when it comes to the floor, the PCA gets the tough part physically and the RN g...

Well I for one do not like my job, and I'm not sure if I really want to do nursing at all. I just do not feel safe on the floor with so many demands on me. I hate working mandatory weekends and holidays, and I don't like the type of environment I'm i...

I don't feel too good about mines either. It stopped at 75, but I'm convinced that's not a good thing. My heart has been racing all day with the results of this test on my mind.

Last time I heard the going rate for a new grad was $18 and some change for new grads

Question out there for active/retired duty nurses. What's a quick comparison between civilian hospitals and military hospitals? and Anybody out there retired from the military as a nurse or did more than 10 years? If I could, i would be interested i...

Hey diffcult decison, I am going to eventually apply to UNF's CRNA program. Being from Jacksonville, that's probably the ideal situation for me. What was your GPA, GRE, and years of critcal care experience?

They do, for the record.

LOL! After getting off at 11pm last night, lo and behold I get a phone call 7am this morning asking to come in for work...Sheesh! I almost feel like an idiot to not see it coming. Cheers to the original poster!!:cheers: