Want To Be A Nurse, But

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Not looking to pick on anyone, just though one central thread under a catch all heading would help to serve perhaps as a reference point.

1 - Failed one or two classes, but only by "X", points, why are programs so strict?

2 - Don't like dealing with human bodily fluids and or waste.....

3 - Don't understand why nursing math has to be so difficult. Afterall in the real world there are computers and caculators

4 - My life hasn't been entirely blameless, will that affect my chances of entering a NP or obtaining a license, and why should it make a difference?

5 - Have allot going on in my life at the moment (work, children, husband, family, etc), but my instructors won't cut me any slack, is this fair?

6 - Why to I have to learn nursing and or medical terms that aren't used anymore?

And.......

Specializes in ICU.
I almost fell out of my chair after writing it.

But my all time favorite is.....

Why do nurses eat their young?

Seriously...Seasoned nurses taste much better. :lol2:

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Specializes in Dialysis, Home health.
Seriously...Seasoned nurses taste much better. :lol2:

LOLOL:yeah::lol2:

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.
Seriously...Seasoned nurses taste much better. :lol2:

I prefer using garlic.....

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Amazingly enough :uhoh3: every one of these topics have been covered on allnurses in the short time I've been visiting the website.

Here are some of my favs.

"I have x number of kids and a non-supportive husband. Can I make through nursing school?" How the heck should we know???

"I have 2.2 GPA. Is that good enough for my school?" Well, gee, we don't know what school is "yours". :p

"I'm thinking about going to nursing school but I don't know if I can find a job. Will I be able to?" Um, let me get out my crystal ball and I'll get right back to ya.... :cool:

"I called in sick to work tonight. Will I get fired?" Um, where did I put that crystal ball. :D

And my personal favorite: "Should I become a CNA or an LPN, or an RN or a CRNA or a MD or a ADN or a BSN or a MSN?" Give me a break. :uhoh3:

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7) I'm scared I won't be able to get a job

8) My clinical instructor is a (female dog).

9) I'm deaf and blind. Will that affect my chances?

10) I want to be a nurse, but do you think becoming a respiratory therapist/ultrasound technician/physician assistant/insert any other allied health profession will be better?

11) My clinical instructor is a mean (female dog).

12) I can't get enough financial aid.

13) Will my views on abortion/alternative medicine/natural birth/insert any other flashpoint interfere with my goal of becoming a nurse?

14) I'm 65 years old. Is it too late for me to become a nurse?

15) Did I mention that my clinical instructor is a mean, nasty (female dog)?

This is just a summary of the posts I have seen on this board and the student board about this topic.

8)Actually number one is a very valid concern.

9)I havent seen anyone I came across or on this forum wanting to get into nursing school being blind and deaf.

10)People often question their career majors,selecting a major can be a very difficult process hence it is totally understandable.

11)Yes a lot of nursing instructors are mean.

12)Nursing school can be expensive so people worry they wont be able to pay the tuition.

13)People have different moral values,but they also can refuse taking care of someone who had an abortion.

14)I never met anyone who is 65 years old and wants to go to nursing school.Learning never stops.

15)Again there are a lof mean instructors.

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I was fired for being too beautiful!

Jealous much?:D

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
8)actually number one is a very valid concern.

9)i havent seen anyone i came across or on this forum wanting to get into nursing school being blind and deaf.

10)people often question their career majors,selecting a major can be a very difficult process hence it is totally understandable.

11)yes a lot of nursing instructors are mean.

12)nursing school can be expensive so people worry they wont be able to pay the tuition.

13)people have different moral values,but they also can refuse taking care of someone who had an abortion.

14)i never met anyone who is 65 years old and wants to go to nursing school.learning never stops.

15)again there are a lof mean instructors.

i think you missed the point.

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This thing about "mean" instructors/professors in nursing school always gets me!:D

Those of us who attended a NP say up until about the 1980's or so more likely than not had members of the department that were ex-military and may have saw action (WWII, Korean, Vietnam) and often didn't suffer fools gladly. Even those not from the services may have had a tendency to run on the (female dog) nurse side of things, but there was a good method to their maddness.

Life is tough, nursing is tough and the one thing first and foremost is patient safety. If one was a chucklehead or seemed not to be giving 100% of herself, then perhaps they ( and future patients) are better off if cut out of nursing school, rather than go on and perhaps harm someone.

Nursing school wasn't exactly a cake walk back in the day, and the board exams certianly weren't. Two days of pencil and paper exams, no caculator, no computers, and one had to be on point.

It is funny that aside from the clique, beautiful and a few other common questions, the main bulk are about inability of a student or new nurse to complete required tasks.

Again, not picking on anyone, and the thread was meant to be light hearted but, if one has struggled with math all through school, and couldn't divide or multiply fractions, much less do long division if one's life depended upon it, just what is going to make nursing math any easier? Also if one does not follow through, like people, able to get on, change courses in mid-stream and so on, just where do these students think they are going to practice as nurses?

I'm all for reassuring and giving comfort to student or new nurse in need,but as one former instructor put it, one has to see that there is something "there".

I don't know about anyone else, but if the best someone could do in med dose calc was an average grade of 75% (which translates into a one in four error rate), or had to repeat a course or two more than once, and still couldn't do better than the said grade, I'm not sure I'd want you coming at me or mine.

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Specializes in LTC.

- should I be a lpn or rn or cNA or MA or aDn or bsn?

- no jobs for new grads, should I quit school

- A student is better than C student

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- should I be a lpn or rn or cNA or MA or aDn or bsn?

- no jobs for new grads, should I quit school

- A student is better than C student

Um, wha?

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i think you missed the point.

actually no,this topic does not belong on the section for working nurses,this thread should be moved to pre-nursing forum or student nurse forum.i really dont see the point of posting this kind of thread in the section for working experience nurses who share their experience.

how about want to be nurse, but

i dont know where to post topics like the one mentioned above.

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Um, wha?

She probably meant that a lot of A student think that C students are going to be worse nurses.

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