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Do we have any nurses in here?
I'm a male, and really interested in doing nursing.
If any of you's are doing it, how's the uni/college courses like?
Just tell me all the pros/cons

>> No.682597

>>682583
Im an lpn in school right now for my rn. Ive worked over a year at a skilled nursing facility (stroke and broken hip rehab type stuff not the long term care dementia units)

So your in demand. As a nurse and a male.

Its the easiest way to break into the lower middle class and your recession proof. you can always get overtime or part time gigs as well.

Pussies abundant , even the kind of elmer fud guys in my classes end up in relationships with the 6's and below within a semester.

also you can do travelling or move on from bedaide if you hate that , shifts are all over the place so its very doable to use this to get your feet under you and then have a small business on the side.

Cons incoming...

>> No.682604

>>682597
Thanks for your time! Very interesting, what's the schooling itself like?

>> No.682605

>>682583
Ok so the patients are cool. The patients families are horrible people , i mean i can sympathize because im not dumb and theyre stressed out but i save my empathy for the patients. Holy shit do i hate patients family members.

Nurse office politics is easy, basically just remember that as a male you have to not say or do anything that could get you canned even if the fem nurses are telling dirty sexist jokes. Brownie points witrh your boss for basically just nott calling in (as they end up jlhaving to cover your shift)

Its one of the only jobs thats emotionally , physically and mentally draining at the same time. stem and business majors have it easy , if they fuck up they get fired and just get a new job or move and get a new job. You have a state issued licence that can be suspended or revoked and if you fuck up people can die (even at low level nursing shit like i do) . So its like upper corporate levels of stress for plumber money basically.

You kinda have to fuckup hard (be legally negligent) for them to take your licence though so unless your a drunk or something you should be ok. Also as per post 1 you could just get a position that doesnt have that kind of liability.

Id say 10% of my shifts are hellish , 60% kind of suck (more tiring but more rewarding than a call center) and the other 30% are okay.

>> No.682610

>>682605
That's another thing I wanted to know, do you enjoy working... Enjoy actually going to work?

I want to work ER or OR maybe even peds

>> No.682615

>>682604
Its really grueling. every answer on a multiple choice is correct , one will be the most correct. They fuck with you on purpose , ive heard this from other nursing students and older nurses. They want to weed out flakey ones and also prepare you for shit hitting the fan. Like imagine your on hour 11.5 of a 12 hour shift and 2 people fall and 2 people code within 15 minutes , extremely rare , bad luck , but guess what? You cant call 911 because you fucking are 911 and thats your hall and those are your patients and your in charge of that shit now , so this shift just went into overdrive and youll be here another 5 hours doing paperwork once the emergencies over.

Theyre preparing you to deal with that. So the clinicals are early and last too damn long and the syllabus might be useless , theyre trying to catch cheaters so theyll do a 3 days exam review and have none of that shit on the exam (which is fine if you read the chapter and studied broadly)

Its rough but again , an associates degree for an instant ticket to the lower middoe class. If you can just put your social life on hold for a few years youre golden.

I make it seem hellish but its way doable , essentially after your first med surg class youll have failed out or figured out a study schedule / method that works for you and from their its just grinding it out.

>> No.682617

>>682610
More than a call center or security job or shit tier sammich making job , if you have a good environment (team and management) that arent throwing you to the wolves every day then with the right attitude it can be fun. But like i said a third of the time its okay with a dash of fun , a tenth of the time its hell and the rest is just south of shitty. I was a nursing assistant for 3 years before i was a nurse so that helps too.

Once im an rn im gonna go hospice. No call lighta. Just a morphine assisted trip to the great magnet in the sky. A little dignity and pain relief is what i want to bring to the world.

>> No.682619

>>682615
Argh, this is answered so much that I needed to know!
Thank you so much!
Are they're any other things you think is necessary to throw at me?
Are you happy with your decisions? A lot people get burnt out quickly? Is this true?

>> No.682624

>>682617

This is proof there are different jobs for different people in the world.

I would personally rather live under a bridge and beg for change than to even consider that career.

>> No.682626

>>682624
And what's your reason for this?
I just think I have a good heart and I will
Be good for this job.

>> No.682627

>>682619
yeh i think statistically its like 1 in 4 med surg nurses wont last 3 years and only 1 in 10 surgical. Totally forgot to tell you about lab nursing. My buddy E is an rn (im just lpn) and hes in a gi lab. He knocks people out with a mikd sedative and then a doc puts a camera up the colon and takes pictures of the intestines , he sits at a computer and documents. Says the first 2 hours of every shift is drinking coffee and shooting the shit.

Im happy with the decision but im not going to stay in skilled nursing (med surg) , also long term your salary peaks within 5 years so to keep getting raises without becoming a nurse practitioner you have to jump jobs. Like i said , its a golden ticket to get you on your feet. 40 years? Probably not

I rememeber one of my teachers had burned out and become an insurance broker before getting her teaching certification.

>> No.682628

>>682626

Working with old, sick, dying people all day every day would just depress me so badly I would want to kill myself in weeks. There is just no way I could drag myself into that environment every day

>> No.682629
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682629

>>682626
Google "compassion fatigue"

When your first cute little old lady goes tits up you gitta be able to leave it at work

Also most of the people you do cpr on wont live or last long , remember that yhey were legally dead when you started cpr so you did the best you could.

I do well because im empathic but i can compartmentalize things and then just let them go in chunks.

>> No.682633

>>682629

And that is why I would fail. When I have a balls to the wall stressful day at work I can go home, put some music on, and get drunk, then fall asleep with a smile.

My first little old lady going to the glue factory would make me cry, go home and get drunk, and cry harder. Sleep would take hours before I can stop thinking... then I would wake up and one of my first thoughts would be her

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682635

>>682628
See its like you say , different strokes for different folks. I cant wait to be a dulltime hospice nurse and your average patient wont last to a 4th shift in that environment. Im not morbid or some closet psycho either , helping someone to the final great unburdening? I cant think of a more honorable way to spend my days.

I sae a baby born in clinicals , it was pretty cool.

My first massive hem stroke (instant death brain bleed , i was only an aid) , ill never forget it. I got to close his eyes and clean him up for the mortician , the solemnity in the room after he passed. The difference in his still form from the writhin anguish he had been in only minutes before. I envied the nurse that got to hold his hands in his final moments.

>> No.682639

I'd just love to work around the blood and gore, I'm not 100% in what area, I'd hate to be a med/surg or floor nurse,

>> No.682644

>>682635

Yea... Ill take rats, cold rain, and asking for 30 cents to buy an apple any day of the week.

>> No.682648

>>682639
ER . Takes fridays and saturdays and they might call it bailers and give you free hours (plus weekend bonus and night differential)

Im too much of a lazy sob for that , takes me 3 hours to get my brain going but if your an adtenaline junky thats the way to go.

Also emergency room surgeons are first line bros , you wont be bored passing psych meds to grannies doing that shit.

>> No.682656

I also heard about the 3 12 hour shifts a week, which is amazing, I'd love to hear more about that

And I also love adrenaline which is why!

>> No.682661

>>682656
Yeh i do 12's , its tits , enough time inbetween for some internet and maybe a tv show or a good reading session and then 4 day weekends every week. Lots of places pay you more to work weekends and nights as well and also will give you flat rate bonuses for picking up a shift.

Its still middle class money but if i ever want to splurge on some gadget or new mantoy i know that im only a shift or 2 of overtime away from being able to afford it (i mean , this is /biz/ im not saying throw your budget out the window but if you want a new hobby every 3 months its doable)

>> No.682669

>>682661
So you enjoy doing the 12s?
And still earning enough with that?
I have never really looked up the pay rates ect, bc I'm not bothered, I'd just love to work in that area.

>> No.682678

>>682661
Bump

>> No.682765

Bump

>> No.682790

Male nurse here. The con is because you are male, you will likely only get hired in the ER or ICU department to lift patients and stuff. The cons, the pay in the ER and ICU is the best you can do. You'll work 12-14 hour shifts but you'll also have 3-4 days off a week. Also pretty much any male who applies for a FNP graduate program gets accepted. It's not that bad. Nursing school is fun. You're surrounded by women. You have to be gay or ugly as fuck to not sleep with a few. There will also be those one or two chicks that love drama and make school a living hell, but they will quit or get kicked out soon enough. It's a female dominated profession, so you have to get used to the drama and gossip. It's not anything an introvert or social retard will be good at. You're dealing with women all day as well as the patients. People will ALWAYS mistake you for a doctor but don't get offended.

>> No.682796

>>682669

You'll take home $4-6K a month depending on location. It isn't bad.

>> No.682827

>>682583

I had a pair of nurses that were the most based pair of bitches I've ever come across.

They'd been nurses for over 25 years, they were the nurses assigned my 1st born up in Roanoke NICU

And my old lady expressed interest in it, and the both of them turned to her and said "Shit rolls downhill, and we're downhill of it"

And any other person I've come across with over 5+ Years in the career path has literally, had the same thing to say about it.

>> No.683115

>>682827
Well the certified nursing assistants are below the nurses so they defin8tely "catch shit" , for instance after my 3 years in that line of work im not proud to say that i can change an adults diaper within 3 minutes front to back.

I avoid doing this now obviously.

>> No.683131

>>682605
>stem and business majors have it easy

What a fucking piece of shit ignorant noobcunt you are.

I happen to know a trader in London who got fired because he flirted with another trader (girl) on his company. Neither of them will ever be able to get a job on finance again because of that, he is now attending med school you fucking noob.

Also, a young german trader died because of not sleeping. If you think stem / business is easy you're a fucking fool. If it paid the exact same salary I would definitly go for a nurse job you weak cunt.

Now, gtfo my /biz/

>> No.683160

>>682605
Yeah. In my line of STEM, a major fuckup could involve millions in dollars of repairs for a company, or deaths of multiple individuals., contamination of the environment, etc.
Fuck you nurseboi

>> No.683167

>>683131
Yeh no , thats hyperbole , he wasnt blacklisted from.the entire planet. Second guy could have just switched jobs.
>>683160
What do you do? Civil or electrical engineering? If you fuck up bad enpugh to get people killed thats catastrophic but its also not just your fuckup , tons of other people had to okay a bad dock or a.shit tier missile defense system that barely works. Its a little different.

My point is that nursing is physically / emotionally and mentally draining at the same time whereas a STEM job is maybe 2 or one off the above. So im not going to argue that it takes more mental prowess to nurse than "xyz" but the guy designing xyz probably sits in a chair all day, furthermore in yhe business world you can count on connections and nepotism and such to smooth over shit you do , no matter how close you are to your fellow healthcare workers or what youve done for the company if you fuck up or they think they can pin a fuckup on you and escape liability then under the bus you go.

>> No.683170

>>683167
retards like you are always entertaining. if nursing really was this "draining" you wouldn't have stayed in it. nurses, and teachers (unsurprisingly, both dominated by women) always bitch how bad their jobs are but you never change your career. you're just perpetual whiners.

>> No.683174

>>682626
i don't like changing my own kids' diapers

>> No.683177

>>683170
Read above where i go over turnover and burnout rates by specialty and then explain how im switching to a less caustic one.

You sound like an A list internet hardass with some deep seeded bitterness towards women , wanna talk about it? Mommy didnt hold you when you were little? Its okay you can tell me. Im your nurse.

>> No.683182

>>682644
i'm with you, anon.

>> No.683187

>>683177
>Read above where i go over turnover and burnout rates by specialty and then explain how im switching to a less caustic one.
nursing has a low barrier to entry and is fairly well paying. of course it will be flooded with incompetents that will wash out.

>You sound like an A list internet hardass with some deep seeded bitterness towards women , wanna talk about it?
get some guy friends, because you even react like a woman.

>> No.683196

>>683187
classic salty /biz/nessmen

>> No.683244

>>682597
>>682605

Im in LPN School as well, been working with at an oncology unit for the past 2 years.

This guy is pretty accurate.

>> No.683270

>>683131

yeah, but you see, unlike traders and financefags, nurses do useful shit and elicit respect