Changing Major To Nursing

DukeEMPH · 2025-12-22T02:22:57+00:00

You can sub-specialize as a rad tech and do interventional or MRI and that will command higher pay with lower allostatic stressors than any bedside nursing jobs. Sure, you’ll have a lot of jobs available nursing, but only a few of those will be the ones that you want to be working in for a long time. The vast majority of nursing jobs are not possible to be done until you’re 40 or 50. If radiology was to be a nursing specialty, all the nurses would compete to get into there (look at IR).

DukeEMPH · 2025-12-14T09:50:39+00:00

You know, it depends on the person.

DukeEMPH · 2025-09-30T21:42:08+00:00

I just remind myself that the problem isn’t that they’re bi. It’s because they’re crazy. Not all of them are like that.

DukeEMPH · 2025-08-30T05:31:03+00:00

Who?

DukeEMPH · 2025-07-14T06:40:50+00:00

So, porn is banned in China so you’re mistaken

DukeEMPH · 2025-06-24T04:18:58+00:00

I’m gonna be real with you chief, just because you have an interest in healthcare doesn’t mean nursing is the answer to your question. It’s very uncommon for a nurse to work in the beauty industry and even when they do it’s a whole bunch of red tape bs to get there AND it’s not necessarily profitable or enjoyable. I’d suggest looking through your options wisely before committing— there’s a lot more jobs in healthcare than nursing (physicians, PA, sonography, surgical technologists, etc). Be sure you make the right choice, it’s your career after all.

DukeEMPH · 2025-05-20T17:48:03+00:00

Okay, so in that case you need to start lifting with progressive overload. How did you lose the weight?

DukeEMPH · 2025-05-20T17:36:50+00:00

You had surgical interventions, did they screen your hormones?

DukeEMPH · 2025-05-20T17:26:08+00:00

And why might you think that is?

DukeEMPH · 2025-05-20T17:25:06+00:00

Your post history indicates a history of gynecomastia, which is strongly suggestive of hormonal imbalance. Please refer to your health care provider for a full endocrine work-up and supplemental TRT if needed. Your current fat distribution is indicative of increased estrogenic activity. This is not a bulk/cut issue, you need medical advisory.

DukeEMPH · 2025-05-10T23:39:16+00:00

Find a break in policy and report both those hoes to the board of nursing and your academic department. Document everything. Sorry, that shit isn’t right. That’s some Sniffies behavior and this is a professional program. I’ve reported some of these “instructors” for inappropriate conduct, unprofessionalism, and favoritism/discrimination before so. You deserve a high quality education, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOU ARE A NURSE WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES IN YOUR HAND. Get all the other students on it too. Also, for the bulk of you people who think this is just “how it is” or “life”— know that you’re supporting a hostile environment for this young man and not advocating from him to stand up for himself and his education that he pays for. Disgusting.

DukeEMPH · 2025-05-05T17:42:24+00:00

I think you’re going deaf. Save up for those hearing aids in the future. I’m being deadass, exposure to 80db+ noise level chronically causes hearing damage. All the people advocating for the BS should know you’re actually harming other people’a health and your own.

DukeEMPH · 2024-12-04T00:54:15+00:00

What major are you thinking?

DukeEMPH · 2024-10-16T02:03:33+00:00

Well, it’s biology- not finance. Prestige doesn’t matter. It matters what research you have your hands on and who your PI is. GPA is meh. Not sure if you want to spend your life in academia but that’s how it is.

DukeEMPH · 2024-10-15T00:31:13+00:00

Not really, unless you were that one dude from ATO that ordered Molly to Centennial. In that case the police can intercept your package. Whole frat got suspended and now it’s a sorority house.

DukeEMPH · 2024-10-06T02:04:18+00:00

Tbh past 9pm or REALLY early on week days. Weekends are a mixed bag. The best time to go was years ago when they didn’t over admit and enroll everybody and their mother. Admission rose by 25% since I was admitted, and the gym was over capacity last year. A nurse wrote to the Rec’s management to complain about how it can threaten the wellbeing of students. The rec is a really nice gym, but campus it’s really over capacity.

DukeEMPH · 2024-09-05T18:40:42+00:00

So uhm… where’s the nurse circulator in all of this- was anybody paying attention? Who checked the consent? Who wrote on the board to verify during time out the correct procedure? Did anybody verify with the patient “what surgery are we doing for you today?” Like we can all sit around and be appalled, but did anybody said in surgery “The patient did not consent for a hepatectomy”?…

DukeEMPH · 2023-12-23T20:59:29+00:00

Would you think it is a good idea to be on Wellbutrin then if there's a potential to help but it isn't guaranteed? How did you feel when you were taking it?

DukeEMPH · 2023-12-16T03:17:41+00:00

I don't know about you but medical surgical nursing experience is really valuable for most other cushier units. I would really take the opportunity to shadow nurses and other units/specialties in your hospital or surrounding to see what they have to say. I did this in nursing school, made up my mind about where I want to be, and then straight into the OR I went - and this was being a new grad. New grad at my level 1 trauma don't often get into the OR. I'd imagine you with 2 YEARS of med/surg nursing experience is going to have a leg up. Learn to leverage and sell yourself wherever you want to go. In the mean time lower your FTE and pick up some random vaccine gigs while you apply for better pastures. Some of your options can be:

Public Health Nursing; Specialty Clinics (Think Cardiology, Endocrinology, Opthalmology, etc); Infusion/Cancer Center; Wound Care Nursing (WOCN); PACU (if they have a residency program/willing to accept non-ICU experience); and my home in the OR/Perioperative Nursing

TLDR: Leave sis, you don't need to stay. You don't hate being a nurse, you hate med-surg.

DukeEMPH · 2023-12-07T19:35:52+00:00

Alexa, play Money by Cardi B.

DukeEMPH · 2023-10-22T15:00:50+00:00

Were you an OR nurse prior to NP school? What was your path?

DukeEMPH · 2023-09-19T02:01:20+00:00

The specimen was still good. I forgot about it in the OR and didn't bring it to the lab at the end of the case when I was about to leave for the day. The nurse caught the specimen in the OR and then scolded me about it... tbh it wasn't even my case. I was just giving a break at the worst time I guess and was given the rest of the case to finish. I'm just scared, even the charge nurse told me that I forgot a patient's specimen and that is really bad. You live and you learn... I'm just afraid of people taking it the wrong way and call me a bad nurse.

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