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Anonymous wrote:As with any major: go to the highest rated college you can get accepted into AND afford without going into debt. Nursing included. There are many reasons beyond career trajectory that you want to be in the best college possible. The caliber of nursing students (and other students) at top colleges are vastly different from low ranking state colleges or community colleges. Your peers matter and have a huge amount of influence. As does the quality of all your classes, not simply nursing clinicals

Nursing at community college is pretty much single moms and middle aged divorced women starting over. Let’s just say nursing isn’t their calling in life- but rather a reliable means to put food on the table.

Yet they get the same jobs and are paid the same...

And one is a med surg nurse still 40 yrs later making an hourly wage and the other isn’t. Grads of 4 yr prestigious programs are moving on to better careers and high ed within a couple yrs after graduation

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Anonymous wrote:As with any major: go to the highest rated college you can get accepted into AND afford without going into debt. Nursing included. There are many reasons beyond career trajectory that you want to be in the best college possible. The caliber of nursing students (and other students) at top colleges are vastly different from low ranking state colleges or community colleges. Your peers matter and have a huge amount of influence. As does the quality of all your classes, not simply nursing clinicals

Nursing at community college is pretty much single moms and middle aged divorced women starting over. Let’s just say nursing isn’t their calling in life- but rather a reliable means to put food on the table.

When the hell did this become dogma?

When this site became filled with the most annoying strivers ever.

Anonymous wrote:As with any major: go to the highest rated college you can get accepted into AND afford without going into debt. Nursing included. There are many reasons beyond career trajectory that you want to be in the best college possible. The caliber of nursing students (and other students) at top colleges are vastly different from low ranking state colleges or community colleges. Your peers matter and have a huge amount of influence. As does the quality of all your classes, not simply nursing clinicals

Nursing at community college is pretty much single moms and middle aged divorced women starting over. Let’s just say nursing isn’t their calling in life- but rather a reliable means to put food on the table.

Yet they get the same jobs and are paid the same...

Anonymous wrote:As with any major: go to the highest rated college you can get accepted into AND afford without going into debt. Nursing included. There are many reasons beyond career trajectory that you want to be in the best college possible. The caliber of nursing students (and other students) at top colleges are vastly different from low ranking state colleges or community colleges. Your peers matter and have a huge amount of influence. As does the quality of all your classes, not simply nursing clinicals

Nursing at community college is pretty much single moms and middle aged divorced women starting over. Let’s just say nursing isn’t their calling in life- but rather a reliable means to put food on the table.

When the hell did this become dogma?

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Anonymous wrote:DH went to Yale for med school. If you are an attractive PA student, you can get yourself a doctor husband. We know nurses from Georgetown and Penn who are married to doctors from Georgetown and Penn.

Eww. You can also be a doctor and marry a doctor husband, it is not the 1970s. Most of my work colleagues married doctors they met in med school or undergraduate, me included. In a large multispecialty practice with over 20 docs, 2/3 are doc-doc couples and the rest are doc-lawyer or doc-dentist. Only one has a SAHM wife.

It still happens now, sadly (DP by the way).
I am a female who is CEO of a company. The Law partner I dated married a dog walker, the TV director I dated, married a nursery school teacher. My cousin who is a consultant in a hospital, wanted to marry a fellow doctor but ended up with a nurse.

Sometimes successful men like to marry less successful women. For whatever reason.

Why "sadly"? Why does it matter to you if someone with a professional degree chooses to marry an "equal" or not? To each his/her own.

Congratulations for celebrating the perpetuation of a patriarchy.

I would go to a school that is affiliated with a hospital, so you can guarantee yourself a job.

As with any major: go to the highest rated college you can get accepted into AND afford without going into debt. Nursing included. There are many reasons beyond career trajectory that you want to be in the best college possible. The caliber of nursing students (and other students) at top colleges are vastly different from low ranking state colleges or community colleges. Your peers matter and have a huge amount of influence. As does the quality of all your classes, not simply nursing clinicals

Nursing at community college is pretty much single moms and middle aged divorced women starting over. Let’s just say nursing isn’t their calling in life- but rather a reliable means to put food on the table.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ In a hospital setting, nurses do not work for doctors. they work for the hospital. Nurses are not subserviant.”

You do what the doctor says. If you disagree with the doctor, the doctor’s opinion will prevail. Yes, you are subservient, and should be.

I'm a nurse and frankly this frustrated the crap out of me and is a big reason why I left bedside nursing fairly early on. I was a Hopkins grad, worked in a university teaching hospital and was taking orders from 21 year old residents who knew nothing. YES, nurses are free to question orders and they are the eyes and the ears at the bedside and in critical care they function under a lot of standing orders (If XYZ, do ABC) which gives more autonomy than floor nursing but ultimately as an RN in a hospital you are not making the decisions or calling the shots. You are following the orders and the decision-making process of another person and may times that person is an idiot.

Doctors are employed by the hospital. Nurses write up doctors all the time and have a huge amount of influence within the hospital. And for as much as nurses complain about “idiot” doctors, I can assure you there are a LOT of incompetent nurses. Many, if not the majority. And the doctors don’t even bother complaining or writing them up because then they are called aggressive or “creating a toxic work environment” or whatever the new terms are now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH went to Yale for med school. If you are an attractive PA student, you can get yourself a doctor husband. We know nurses from Georgetown and Penn who are married to doctors from Georgetown and Penn.

Eww. You can also be a doctor and marry a doctor husband, it is not the 1970s. Most of my work colleagues married doctors they met in med school or undergraduate, me included. In a large multispecialty practice with over 20 docs, 2/3 are doc-doc couples and the rest are doc-lawyer or doc-dentist. Only one has a SAHM wife.

It still happens now, sadly (DP by the way).
I am a female who is CEO of a company. The Law partner I dated married a dog walker, the TV director I dated, married a nursery school teacher. My cousin who is a consultant in a hospital, wanted to marry a fellow doctor but ended up with a nurse.

Sometimes successful men like to marry less successful women. For whatever reason.

Why "sadly"? Why does it matter to you if someone with a professional degree chooses to marry an "equal" or not? To each his/her own.