1. Camming is way more fun than $120,000 in student loans for nursing school.
2. Smoking pot before a job interview is totally acceptable.
3. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.... (...that gives you renal failure, heart failure and cardiomegaly)
4. If you tell someone you need to get deer ticks off of testicles, you will have an audience.
5. Night shift. Glorious, glorious night shift. I haven't slept in days, but I got to actually do a good, thorough job changing a bandage and OMG.... I taught people actual STUFF. I miss night shift.
6. I keep forgetting I'm old enough now that doctors can and will be younger than me. It's okay, though, because I look younger than them.
7. Literally every person could end every post with "wait 24 hours before you do the PVT, and people will still brag about their good pop up and offer advice on how to pass.
8. People are actually able to spend $120,000 on nursing school. This girl said $20,000 per semester. I'm pretty sure she says BSN. I'm not sure if she realizes her math is off. But still.... It's crazy.
9. I'm nearing a breaking point on some personal life stuff and confess I've secretly been glad to escape it to go to work.
I said rigorous not vigorous...my program is 15 months, hers is 24. And my program requires a 90% pass rate on all exams. So I think we're both in agreement that mine MIGHT be a little harder. Who knows though because I haven't started it yet and I'm not "in" hers so its hard to compare.
The point is though, her first med/surg exam is Friday and she's freaking out...I think she'll do good though, she got a 4.0 last semester.
Yes, I have learned that 1)everything tastes like chicken 2)don't have the audacity to ask to be treated fairly 3)actually believing you can make a difference is a tell tale sign of a nervous break down 4)voting is a joke 5)the US is on the brink of complete and total economic collapse 6)minimal or no government is actually a great idea 7)most everything you were taught in the public school system is a lie 8)more documentation results in less hands on care but there is always some useful idiot that will defend the state 9)the check is not in the mail 10)if you are a seasoned veteran, the facilities view you as a liability now that they can hire in fresh graduates for less money 11)That extra year of school that gave that RN title doesn't mean didly squat if you are a vile or ignorant person (in the case of many I have worked with, both) 12)"fat destroyer" pills don't work, the best diet in the push away diet ......lemme reflect on some more valuable lessons life has to offer
Greed is NOT always good. I see on facebook that the crooks in the healthcare rackets charge $800 dollars for that "hydration IV", a bag of sodium chloride is standard issue for all hospital patients, regardless of whether they are dehydrated or not. Wonder why the country is broke or the system collapsing? Then the student loan rackets. Take out some student loan that will only land you a job at Walmarts or the Golden Arches and become an indentured servant to some student loan you can never pay back. And the state, rather, the government, wants to make all you saps get a 4 year degree because they think psychotic bookworms make better floor nurses. And those books....talk about highway robbery. A hundred bucks or more for a textbook that they had produced for pennies overseas, and they "update" the latest edition that you are raped into paying for by changing the cover and maybe a few sentences. Again, people wonder why the US is broke, why so many are bankrupting, why the system is collapsing. Greed is not always the best way to do business.
Greed is NOT always good. I see on facebook that the crooks in the healthcare rackets charge $800 dollars for that "hydration IV", a bag of sodium chloride is standard issue for all hospital patients, regardless of whether they are dehydrated or not. Wonder why the country is broke or the system collapsing? Then the student loan rackets. Take out some student loan that will only land you a job at Walmarts or the Golden Arches and become an indentured servant to some student loan you can never pay back. And the state, rather, the government, wants to make all you saps get a 4 year degree because they think psychotic bookworms make better floor nurses. And those books....talk about highway robbery. A hundred bucks or more for a textbook that they had produced for pennies overseas, and they "update" the latest edition that you are raped into paying for by changing the cover and maybe a few sentences. Again, people wonder why the US is broke, why so many are bankrupting, why the system is collapsing. Greed is not always the best way to do business.
emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B
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