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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: Rebelutionsssss]
#23248596 - 05/20/16 03:06 AM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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JustAnotherFreak said: It would be nothing.
You may be able to grow plants but it seems like you can't grow any understanding or rational thoughts....Quote:
Highly doubt that..
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Bigfeely123
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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#23248616 - 05/20/16 03:24 AM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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ohcrapitsnico said: As someone who has worked in healthcare, for the love of god don't become a nurse unless you want to actually help patients. Too many fucking nurses don't give a shit about their patients and it's a travesty.
This. I got into nursing because I wanted to actually make a diff in peoples lives, contribute to the society/community/world in which I live/work/play. I got sick and burned out on just waiting tables/bartending and gaining nothing from it personally, just money.
When I turned 40 I knew I had to do something different. I felt a change in the way I thought about life and knew I had to do something good, something to actually make a difference (I am not having kids to contribute to society). I was going to go into real estate thinking I could help people/families get into houses. I am not driven by making loads of money so I was going to go into middle level houses etc. I was in St Pete Fla. and started meeting a lot of people in real estate (even met Barnum and Baileys great grandson who is a real estate guy, and a cute chubby bear too!).
I worked at the yacht club so guests started asking me to tend bar at their house parties (made some good cash freelance bartending, weddings too) and did some real estate parties. I quickly realized these people are just sharks and money grubbing greedy assholes and I wanted no part of that!
The opportunity came up to go to Nursing school and I took it. I am very glad I did, BUT the state boards are very difficult for me. I graduated in 2010 and have yet to pass them. I need a refresher course to qualify to pass the test again, but I am happy to do it. I also passed the LPN (the course I went to allowed me to take it, 2 year course in Oklahoma, also only paid 28 grand because it was a rural area) and let that lapse due to me not working on it.
The refresher course will reinstate my LPN (I will get work immediately as an LPN as soon as I reinstate it) and I will pass the RN after that. I also want to add that I was a 10th grade high school drop out at age 15 and got my GED as soon as I turned 17. Partied like a rock star until I went back to school at age 43. If I can do it, I feel almost anyone can. Hope this helps anyone reading this.
I also smoke and trip a bit, but I wait until I have days off to do it. I totally quit drugs/weed and even only drank on my breaks from school. I will quit once again to get my job(s). I have met O.R. nurses in new orleans (when I lived there) and they were frequent LSD trippers and were getting high on weed and drinking! Don't ever get high before work or be hung over, don't have an accident, and don't ever talk about what you do to anyone in the hospital and you should be OK. Keep your private life private (goes for any medical profession really).
If you don't mind me asking what do you currently do as living? I assume you're not yet working as a nurse as you said you still have to pass certain test(s), at least that's what I got from your reply, or am I wrong? Sorry if I am. I'd be lying if I said that I'm thinking about this career choice solely based on the fulfillment I'd get from helping others. Although I do like to help people (I've never helped anyone health/medical wise). That's not to say that I wouldn't care about patients. Whenever I do a job I don't half ass... I do it how I'm supposed to.
I was thinking about becoming an RN because it's good money and I'm under the impression that nurses are in high demand so it'd be easy for me to get a job wherever I decide to live in the future. I can't picture myself working at some retail job or in a department store in 10-20 years from now. I'd feel like a failure in life. I want better than just a few bucks above minimum wage.
What's holding me back from committing 100% and going for gold is (I'm unsure if this is right or wrong thinking) is losing myself (my individuality) and also not being able to smoke some weed or do drugs ever again pretty much. Don't hospitals do random drug testing? I don't know wether it's time to grow up and "play the game" or do what I like and put up a fight (lol. not literally. HEY that rhymes!) Or is the only way to do this is to be a fulltime hobo..? And that I don't think I want.
I want to do what others may think is day dream type stuff. I want to make it a reality in my life. As in I want travel and see things I've never seen before. I'd hate to be in my 40's and think, "shit man... I've only seen the places that I've lived in because I live to work. I haven't experienced shit." I see life as a quest sort of. I want to experience and fulfill my wants and not just think of them, or "day dream", because then what's the point of even thinking about these things if I'm not going to do them? I don't know. I'm confused. Confused about a lot as you can probably tell.
Anyways... I'll probably get replies of people telling me to grow the fuck up and what not but I'm just being honest. If I'm not being honest then there's no point in me even making the thread in the first place. I really appreciate the reply tyra. Thank you.
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Bigfeely123
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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: nooneman]
#23248625 - 05/20/16 03:29 AM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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nooneman said: Nursing programs are in extremely high demand. You'll probably never get in even if you want to (unless you're a mindblowingly good student, 3.8+ GPA over multiple semesters, letters of recommendation, etc.).
The competition to get into nursing programs is extreme. Unless you're the best of the best, you won't even get in.
Say what??? I thought nurses were in extremely high demand. Or anything in the medical field for that matter. I know someone who isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer and they are a nurse and make good money. They just studied and remembered certain material for tests/classes they had to take. I don't know anything about being or becoming a nurse really but I don't know about your reply either. That's not to say I don't appreciate the reply. Thank you.
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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23248680 - 05/20/16 04:22 AM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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I know 4 (whatever you call 4 year degree nurses). They're all in their fourties. I know them well; they all slept on my coach, and one was one my coach the last 3 nights, and hung out with me all night last night on my birthday, cause she knew my best friend Peggy died last month. I don't have anything "going" with any of these nurses; we're friends.
Every single one of them hates their job with a passion, and every day they dream about doing something else. They all get stuck with more patients than they can handle, their supervisors are ultra critical, and don't understand the job the nurses actually do. Two of them are currently in lawsuits against their former supervisors. The nurses also have incredible paperwork obligations besides dealing with patients. Most of the nurses I know have done some exciting work in their careers, ER, surgery etc. but unless you can maintain top 5% ratings, you do what almost every nurse does which is work in a rehab center/nursing homes; this is where almost all of the jobs are, and where even more will be in the future.
I don't agree with the person who said nursing programs are ultra competitive. Some of them are, but even the people I know who went to the top programs are mainly working in rehab centers. The nursing market is huge, and they have to train millions of people. The market will slow down a bit in 20 years when the baby boom is all dead, but don't expect the educational institutions to slow down. Look at the legal profession. Every year there are more people in law school, than there are lawyers in the U.S.
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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: Brian Jones]
#23248683 - 05/20/16 04:25 AM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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They do get a very decent hourly wage, but they mainly end up hating the job eventually, even though they like a lot of the patients.
-------------------- "The Rolling Stones will break up over Brian Jones' dead body" John Lennon I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either. The worst thing about corruption is that it works so well,
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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: Brian Jones]
#23250836 - 05/20/16 04:55 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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Probably better off being a emt with all the credentials u can get,knew someone who worked at an airport and got paid like 25 or more an hour just to be there in case something happened
-------------------- "the way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death" Miyamoto Musashi
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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: Bigfeely123] 2
#23255354 - 05/21/16 06:09 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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I am still waiting/tending bar for now (34 years!) and have very little to show for it. I did party my ass off and probably spent about 1-250 grand just having fun and living, maybe more ( I will continue to trip on LSD, DMT, MDMA, cannabis and whatever RC's I find interesting when I find them/the time). I am ready to save for my retirement now and be semi-serious. I still have time and an opportunity to do so.
I have a 2 year ASN degree that allows me to take the state RN boards. I am relegated to home health until I get a BSN (4 year degree). Since hospitals are kicking people out after a few hours to a few days these days (greedy scumbags, burn and turn mentality), and home health seems to be the new recovery for elders, pregnancies, compromised patients old or young, private health care at home for people who have the money, and the opportunity for travel nursing (pays sometimes almost double, and "travel" can be in state in the surrounding counties with mileage pay etc...) I really think at my age I won't burn out until I'm ready to retire anyway.
I can also be in a position to work only 3-9 months out of the year. I am not motivated by excess money so I can budget and plan accordingly to be where I want to be financially, physically and mentally. I don't think it is for everyone. I have also been reading about overloaded nurses in a hospital setting (I am fascinated by the O.R. though). That is why home health seems to be a better option. I will find out! There is also the fact that I will have a world wide work visa and will have the opportunity to travel overseas and reside there easier than someone who just wants to move there. The benefits outweigh the downside to me. 
One can still "play the game" and be serious while having a party lifestyle as long as the serious stuff takes priority. Only you can decide what your priorities will be. Change comes from within. I am a hippy incognito.  
One might consider going to a rural area to get a degree, mine was only 28 grand total. Also there is loan forgiveness if one works in a "bad" area of town for a certain number of years. I had the opportunity to work in a hospital in Hugo Oklahoma as a "nurse tech" for 6 months (still did some RN duties under supervision and they had to let me go when I failed my test) and there was a doc that graduated from SMU and was working there for 2 years to help pay for his loans. They take a LOT off the loan and sometimes pay it in full if the place is "bad" enough.
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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#23261552 - 05/23/16 12:09 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Projections 2012-2022 released in December 2013, Registered Nursing (RN) is listed among the top occupations in terms of job growth through 2022. The RN workforce is expected to grow from 2.71 million in 2012 to 3.24 million in 2022, an increase of 526,800 or 19%. The Bureau also projects the need for 525,000 replacements nurses in the workforce bringing the total number of job openings for nurses due to growth and replacements to 1.05 million by 2022. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.t08.htm According to the “United States Registered Nurse Workforce Report Card and Shortage Forecast” published in the January 2012 issue of the American Journal of Medical Quality, a shortage of registered nurses is projected to spread across the country between 2009 and 2030. In this state-by-state analysis, the authors forecast the RN shortage to be most intense in the South and the West. http://ajm.sagepub.com In June 2011, Wanted Analytics reported that employers and staffing agencies posted more than 121,000 new job ads for Registered Nurses in May, up 46% from May 2010. About 10% of that growth, or 12,700, were ads placed for positions at general and surgical hospitals, where annual turnover rates for RNs average 14% according to a recent KPMG survey. In October 2010, the Institute of Medicine released its landmark report on The Future of Nursing, initiated by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which called for increasing the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses in the workforce to 80% and doubling the population of nurses with doctoral degrees. The current nursing workforce falls far short of these recommendations with only 55% of registered nurses prepared at the baccalaureate or graduate degree level.
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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#23261555 - 05/23/16 12:10 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nursing school enrollment is not growing fast enough to meet the projected demand for RN and APRN services.
Though AACN reported a 2.6% enrollment increase in entry-level baccalaureate programs in nursing in 2013, this increase is not sufficient to meet the projected demand for nursing services. With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, more than 32 million Americans will soon gain access to healthcare services, including those provided by RNs and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs).
A shortage of nursing school faculty is restricting nursing program enrollments.
According to AACN’s report on 2012-2013 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, U.S. nursing schools turned away 79,659 qualified applicants from baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs in 2012 due to insufficient number of faculty, clinical sites, classroom space, clinical preceptors, and budget constraints. Almost two-thirds of the nursing schools responding to the survey pointed to faculty shortages as a reason for not accepting all qualified applicants into their programs. According to a study released by the Southern Regional Board of Education (SREB) in February 2002, a serious shortage of nursing faculty was documented in 16 SREB states and the District of Columbia. Survey findings show that the combination of faculty vacancies (432) and newly budgeted positions (350) points to a 12% shortfall in the number of nurse educators needed. Unfilled faculty positions, resignations, projected retirements, and the shortage of students being prepared for the faculty role pose a threat to the nursing education workforce over the next five years. The significant segment of the nursing workforce is nearing retirement age.
According to a 2013 survey conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and The Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers, 55% of the RN workforce is age 50 or older. The Health Resources and Services Administration projects that more than 1 million registered nurses will reach retirement age within the next 10 to 15 years. According to data from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses released in September 2010 by the federal Division of Nursing, the average age of the RN population is 47.0 years of age, up slightly from 46.8 in 2004. Changing demographics signal a need for more nurses to care for our aging population.
According to the July 2001 report, Nursing Workforce: Emerging Nurse Shortages Due to Multiple Factors (GAO-01-944), a serious shortage of nurses is expected in the future as demographic pressures influence both supply and demand. The future demand for nurses is expected to increase dramatically as the baby boomers reach their 60s and beyond. According to a May 2001 report, Who Will Care for Each of Us?: America's Coming Health Care Crisis, released by the Nursing Institute at the University of Illinois College of Nursing, the ratio of potential caregivers to the people most likely to need care, the elderly population, will decrease by 40% between 2010 and 2030. Demographic changes may limit access to health care unless the number of nurses and other caregivers grows in proportion to the rising elderly population. Insufficient staffing is raising the stress level of nurses, impacting job satisfaction, and driving many nurses to leave the profession.
In the March-April 2005 issue of Nursing Economic$, Dr. Peter Buerhaus and colleagues found that more than 75% of RNs believe the nursing shortage presents a major problem for the quality of their work life, the quality of patient care, and the amount of time nurses can spend with patients. Looking forward, almost all surveyed nurses see the shortage in the future as a catalyst for increasing stress on nurses (98%), lowering patient care quality (93%) and causing nurses to leave the profession (93%). According to a study in the October 2002 Journal of the American Medical Association, nurses reported greater job dissatisfaction and emotional exhaustion when they were responsible for more patients than they can safely care for. Researcher Dr. Linda Aiken concluded that "failure to retain nurses contributes to avoidable patient deaths."
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Re: To whomever is a registered nurse on these forums... [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23261559 - 05/23/16 12:11 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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