i am graduating in may after waiting years to become a nurse. i have always, since the tender age of about 9, wanted to be a nurse.
i simply cannot express how much it :angryfire burns my hide :angryfire that everyone and their mother wants to be a nurse now. what's with the sudden enthusiasm and interest in nursing??? particularly in ca, in seems that everyone is telling me that they are doing pre-req's for nursing. ***?? my friend (also graduating with me in may) pointed out that it seems more and more men are coming into nursing. now, maybe she and i will get raked over the coals for this one, but before the $$ spike for nursing pay, men would be laughed at (a la ben stiller in meet the parents) for being a nurse.
i just find it so frustrating that everyone wants to be a nurse now, especially since nursing has become quite the lucrative career. what happened to wanting to be a nurse because you (*gasp*) care about people and like (*gasp #2*) helping others???????
this is all boiling over with me because i see quite a few of my classmates that clearly are in this for the money. i, personally, would rather die than be their patients - that's how greedy, selfish, money-hungry some of my lovely classmates are.
sorry - i just have to vent.
**please note: i absolutely do not mean that men should not be in nursing - i think it's great. i am generally frustrated at seemingly everyone (both men and women) being interested in nursing, now that it pays so well (esp. in ca). please do not accuse me of being sexist**.
You know that icon, at the top of each post, under the poster's name, between "send so and so an email" and "search all posts by so and so"? Well, its "add so and so to your contacts".
Mine dont work. Big red X there. What do I do?
I think I'm being punished. IDK. Told you I have a pinch of paranoid schitz.
You know that icon, at the top of each post, under the poster's name, between "send so and so an email" and "search all posts by so and so"? Well, its "add so and so to your contacts".
Mine dont work. Big red X there. What do I do?
I think I'm being punished. IDK. Told you I have a pinch of paranoid schitz.
That went red x yesterday sometime...well, I first noticed it yesterday.
I'm a travel nurse. I have been to a lot of places, heard some stuff, but not that one. Where you from?
BFF's?
"Jumping the shark is a colloquialism used by TV critics and fans to denote that point in a TV show or movie series' history where the plot veers off into absurd story lines or out-of-the-ordinary characterizations, particularly for a show with falling ratings apparently becoming more desperate to draw viewers in. In the process of undergoing these changes, the TV or movie series loses its original appeal. Shows that have "jumped the shark" are typically deemed to have passed their peak."
(The phrase refers to a scene in a three-part episode of the American TV series, Happy Days, first broadcast on September 20, 1977. In the third of the three parts of the "Hollywood" episode, Fonzie (Henry Winkler), wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, jumps over a penned-in shark while water skiing.)
I'm from california, but I am pretty sure this is a widely used phrase. And yes, BFFs.
"Jumping the shark is a colloquialism used by TV critics and fans to denote that point in a TV show or movie series' history where the plot veers off into absurd story lines or out-of-the-ordinary characterizations, particularly for a show with falling ratings apparently becoming more desperate to draw viewers in. In the process of undergoing these changes, the TV or movie series loses its original appeal. Shows that have "jumped the shark" are typically deemed to have passed their peak."
(The phrase refers to a scene in a three-part episode of the American TV series, Happy Days, first broadcast on September 20, 1977. In the third of the three parts of the "Hollywood" episode, Fonzie (Henry Winkler), wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, jumps over a penned-in shark while water skiing.)
I'm from california, but I am pretty sure this is a widely used phrase. And yes, BFFs.
Now seriously, if I dont even know what "jump the shark" means, would I know what a collogializm thing is?
Wow, educational this board is, I will use that term too now. I'm a huge movie buff, I should have known it.
My fav. movie all time is.....Shawshank Redemption.
I think the shark's been jumped, captured, slaughtered, sent to the taxidermist, and mounted on a wall at Eriksoln's house, unless he gave it to trueRN.
i, personally, would rather die than be their patients - that's how greedy, selfish, money-hungry some of my lovely classmates are.
Oh goodey.
eriksoln, BSN, RN
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OK, now for some help from my BFF.
You know that icon, at the top of each post, under the poster's name, between "send so and so an email" and "search all posts by so and so"? Well, its "add so and so to your contacts".
Mine dont work. Big red X there. What do I do?
I think I'm being punished. IDK. Told you I have a pinch of paranoid schitz.