hamsterwheel

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1. How do people feel about male nurses?

   hamsterwheel replied to Natgurad's topic in Men in Nursing

   You won't see any job listing specifying male nurses for obvious reasons but I do know being male (if fit looking) is an advantage in the interview. It probably depends where your applying. Jobs seen...

2. 1/23: What I learned this week: Long, long week. But the bagel was tasty.

   hamsterwheel replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   I learned that in home health all it takes to be a "Fantastic! Rock star!" of a noc nurse is not falling asleep at work. Evidently I could cartwheel naked covered in peanut butter though the house and...

3. Administering Tylenol to a friend

   hamsterwheel replied to Em31200's topic in General Nursing

   This is just weird bat-doodle nonsense and the polar opposite of what I was told in lvn school. Our first day the instructor told us we could kill ten people before they took our license. I went home...

4. Riverside Community College Nursing Program Spring 2016

   hamsterwheel replied to jeannette17's topic in School, College Programs

   How is the homework load first

5. Advice wanted, as an older RN student, what thing should I NOT do?

   hamsterwheel replied to hamsterwheel's topic in LPN to RN

   I've thought about not telling anyone I'm an LVN but over two years I'm pretty sure someone will figure it out and wouldn't that be worse? Im really not a know it all, it's just that I didn't go back...

6. Advice wanted, as an older RN student, what thing should I NOT do?

   hamsterwheel posted a topic in LPN to RN

   I will be entering an RN program in the spring. I'm an LVN but I'm starting the program at the beginning, not a bridge program due to "stuff". I'm 45 and while I love my patients I'm not really a...