re: What is the hardest part about being a male nurse?

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LPN and RN are licenses, ASN & BSN are a degree. You can get an LPN license withou a ASN or BSN. If you have a ASN or BSN you will get an RN license. BSN is better than ASN in terms of promotions. Many RNs therefore have an ASN and go back for another year to get their BSN. Also many hospitals are now requiring an RN with a BSN

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A third way to get your RN is in a nursing diploma program. I'm a diploma RN. I guess you would consider a nursing diploma at the bottem of the RN totem pole. They are usually hospital-based nursing programs. There are not as many diploma programs now(the ADN..associate degree programs have been much more popular), but a few still exist.

Hmm. I ask that question because some of my work has been in hospitals, and never once did I stumble upon a compromising situation, or conversation.

You have the break room, locker area, supply closets, etc. but these are all rather public. Just wondering where this occurs, is all.

But then again, when people are being discrete, you won't see it.

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But then again, when people are being discrete, you won't see it.

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Do you work 9-5? Remember most nurses work 12s, so you are talking a ton of time where there are not very many people around. I mean how many hospital rooms are vacant at any given time? Go to a hospital at 10pm and its pretty dead.

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Hmm. I ask that question because some of my work has been in hospitals, and never once did I stumble upon a compromising situation, or conversation.

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Granted most of the on-site incidents that I know of were late night sessions. However, when was in MD, the two corpsman would smash that nurse (not at the same time and they didn't know of each other) in a vacant exam room after hours - it was a base clinic, though. Most of the times it happened at a secluded place on base. I know this because the nurse was/is a friend of my ex's...

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In the cath lab

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Or ultrasound room, or charge nurse office, family waiting room (the one where the door locked), surgery staff bathroom, parking lot, over the levee, empty pt rooms.... Not that I know anythint about this...... Uhhhh i read it in a book....

Funny story from residency relevant to the discussion

The OR charge nurse caught two surgery residents banging in a room in the outpatient surgery preop area during the middle of the night.

For those not familiar, that area is only used from ~6:30 AM to ~ 7PM.

The OR charge nurse call the chairman of surgery right then to report the incident; and it went something like this.

Nurse: I just caught 2 or your residents fricking in a preop room!!!

Chair: Was it 2 of my boys?

Nurse: Huh? No. It was

Chair (cutting her off): Well, never mind then.

CLICK

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Deciding which of the single cute female nurses you work with you want to frick first.

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This! Trust me

Why not go back to school Greg?

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(RN, not BSN or LPN)

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If you receive your BSN, it makes you eligible to take the NCLEX-RN, and if you pass boards, then you are an RN.

Until you pass boards after graduating with a BSN (4 year degree in nursing), you can work as a graduate nurse, or GN, until you are officially awarded your license as an RN.

I graduated from The University of South Carolina with a BSN and have been an ER/Trauma Nurse (RN) for many years now.

ETA: fwiw, an ADN (2 year degree in nursing) is also eligible to sit for NCLEX-RN boards and also practice as RNs. LPNs graduate from a 1 year diploma program and sit for NCLEX-PN boards before becoming LPNs.

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Vastmind

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Does it grind you that CRNAs smoke your arse on the pay scale?