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**.
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'd have to give it back because sharks just don't match my decor.
Although I *do* have the most beautiful blue bedroom that makes me feel like I'm waking up in an aquarium...omg...now I'll think about SHARKS instead!! See what you've done?!?
This thread has been completely derailed, disbarred or something...
Exactly. I'm not sure what the point of it is anymore.
We've had a couple of threads about "those in it for the money" and they always go on and on.
The general concensus is that it's o.k. to choose nursing for the money, but the better nurses also have an interest and a skill in helping people, which is 99% of us - we like to make a nice middle class income, but we like being nurses while we're at it (most of the time).
This thread has been completely derailed, disbarred or something...
:icon_roll Not sure thats a bad thing. Have you read the posts? My gosh.........so cruel. No one has answered my question.........why would you hurt an innocent shark? Topic should have been banned right there (as the very bad and over rated song plays in the background..............."I was banned in the USA").
i, personally, would rather die than be their patients - that's how greedy, selfish, money-hungry some of my lovely classmates are.
truern
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I'd have to give it back because sharks just don't match my decor.
Although I *do* have the most beautiful blue bedroom that makes me feel like I'm waking up in an aquarium...omg...now I'll think about SHARKS instead!! See what you've done?!?