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No matter how bad this economic depression gets, and we all know it still has a long way to fall yet, people will always get sick. It's recession and depression proof.
Only problem is, who's going to pay for it if the only people left work for the govt as all private jobs may just dry up.
As a Nurse you do have to start out doing the crap jobs. Just dont take your first job at a Senior Citizen care facility.
Great career! However, not everyone is suited for years of nursing school.
Or have the money to pay for it. You are talking MEGA-BUCKS if you are considering nursing school, and because of the economy most scholarship funds for some major studies are drying up. This is the case in Arizona.
Nurses do a tough job but some of them are very strange! (must be the hours). I speak from knowing several (personality bi-passes), many have a serious lack of compassion as well. I guess, like doctors, they get burnt out.
Also, do you notice a lot of nurses are very overweight?
Or have the money to pay for it. You are talking MEGA-BUCKS if you are considering nursing school, and because of the economy most scholarship funds for some major studies are drying up. This is the case in Arizona.
10k at a community college here in illinois for the nursing program. Also some hospitals have tuition reimbursements.
Very true, there are outstanding incentives for new nurses upon hiring including signing bonuses! However, again, not everyone is suited for years of college... some are better off in trades, while some have a family to feed and no other family around them to assist while they are in school, so they simply cannot go. The mortgage must be paid or nursing school will find their credit ruined prior to graduation, and these days, poor credit will eliminate most opportunities to work in medicine. Still, nursing remains a top career field, with remarkable flexibility in options.
Nurses do a tough job but some of them are very strange! (must be the hours). I speak from knowing several (personality bi-passes), many have a serious lack of compassion as well. I guess, like doctors, they get burnt out.
Also, do you notice a lot of nurses are very overweight?
Yes! That, and a large majority of them smoke heavily! I'm involved with Home Health (not as a career, but as a patient) and nearly every nurse I've had smokes like a chimney.
I also find overweight doctors and nurses to be hypocritical.
I'm not overweight but I would ask my doctor or nuse, "How dare you tell me to lose weight when you aren't even the picture of health yourself?" Of course if I were overweight, I'd lose weight for myself but I would find it very hypocritical if my health provider were overweight.
I know not all overweight people are overweight as a result of exercising too little and/or making poor meal choices but I doubt the majority of people are overweight because of a thyroid problem.
I used to want to go to school to be a nurse but I'm not cut out for it.
I remember reading an article on a great hospital in the state wanting to find ways to recruit people and also keep them. You can bring in all the best people in the world but if they don't stick around, what good is it?
I also find overweight doctors and nurses to be hypocritical.
I'm not overweight but I would ask my doctor or nuse, "How dare you tell me to lose weight when you aren't even the picture of health yourself?" Of course if I were overweight, I'd lose weight for myself but I would find it very hypocritical if my health provider were overweight.
I know not all overweight people are overweight as a result of exercising too little and/or making poor meal choices but I doubt the majority of people are overweight because of a thyroid problem.
I used to want to go to school to be a nurse but I'm not cut out for it.
I remember reading an article on a great hospital in the state wanting to find ways to recruit people and also keep them. You can bring in all the best people in the world but if they don't stick around, what good is it?
"How dare you tell me to lose weight when you aren't even the picture of health yourself?"
I'd be careful of what I say, they may just remember it the next time they give you a shot in the ass... (;>)
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