hamsterwheel

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 as requiring more physical strength and endurance will snatch you up. Just don't gain 30 lbs of flab during nursing school (and good luck with that)

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 that would be ok because at least I'm awake. Ok..

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 and had the freakiest nightmare where I was walking down a line of beds taking blood pressures and one by one they would die. The fun bit was my instructor counting them off behind me..that's one..that's two..that's three.. I'm about to start an RN program next month and I'm not sure what I'll do if a teacher starts feeding me that kind of bull.

How is the homework load first semester?

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 to school till my late 30s and all I did before that was be a mom. It's hard to turn off. Edit: I just realized I think you meant not let the RNS know I'm an lvn, I could do that.

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 people person. I'm going into a program with mostly 20 something women and I'm concerned that I'm going to want to nag. I have 2 kids in that age range and while getting my prerequisites I noticed a near uncontrollable urge to parent other students and sometimes teachers. Some appreciated the advice, assistance and "Mom purse supplies" but most got a trapped animal expression and tried to politely chew their leg off and run. It turns out teachers don't like you correcting them either, (except one aspie microbiology professor who appreciated my pointing out a math error in the lab manual she'd wrote) I've accepted that I annoy the BM out of teachers and students but I'm hoping to start fresh in clinicals so at least someone will give me a recommendation when it's time to look for a job. The nurses in my lvn clinicals seem to like me but I think that was just because my anal attention to detail meant I didn't kill their patients causing them grief and paperwork. Advice on how to not torture the poor RNs in clinical would be appreciated as well as any general advice.