Author Topic: Nurse Practitioner / Doctor (Read 9099 times)

The Showstoppa · « **Reply #25 on:** May 14, 2009, 06:03:57 AM »

Quote from: jwb on May 14, 2009, 06:00:36 AM

I have a guy friend who is a intensive care nurse and he gets more tail than anyone I know (mainly overseas nurses on working holidays)... plus plenty of free meds

Yes, but we only count female tail, so your "friend" doesn't count...

Ursus · « **Reply #26 on:** May 14, 2009, 06:08:10 AM »

M brother done nursing for a few years.

He wanted to be a paramedic but had to have driven for 5 years and he worked as a nurse after uni till he was 22 before becoming a paramedic

Andy Griffin · « **Reply #27 on:** May 15, 2009, 03:30:37 PM »

Typical nursing student?? You decide.

Brutal_1 · « **Reply #28 on:** May 15, 2009, 03:39:41 PM »

Quote from: Andy Griffin on May 15, 2009, 03:30:37 PM

Typical nursing student?? You decide.

if you're judging by that criteria, you should go to Dental school

Andy Griffin · « **Reply #29 on:** May 15, 2009, 03:40:42 PM »

Quote from: Brutal_1 on May 15, 2009, 03:39:41 PM

if you're judging by that criteria, you should go to Dental school

hahahahahahahaha I'm guessing because of the soda.

the anabolic mon · « **Reply #30 on:** May 15, 2009, 04:11:58 PM »

Quote from: QuakerOats on May 13, 2009, 04:20:19 PM

because nursing school is approx. 25,458,663,985,256,458,758 times easier to get into than a LEGITIMATE top level American medical school.

Fuck all dat. Mexican Med school

babyjessica · « **Reply #31 on:** May 15, 2009, 08:58:36 PM »

Well I am a nurse practitioner. I have a certification to be a family nurse practitioner. I have been a NP for 7 years now and I love it. I work 3 different jobs. I have always wanted to be a nurse so I went to college and majored in Nursing after high school. Then I decided I wanted to be a NP and finished in 2.5 years. I never thought of becoming a doctor but if I could do it all over again I probably would study to be a doctor when I graduated from high school. Now its too late for me. I would have to start all over again. 4 years of medical school. 1 year of internship, 2 - 3 residency, maybe a fellowship........ I work for one doctor seeing his patients in the nursing home and I have to pay him 15% plus $1625 for supervisory fee from what I make

But even so I still make good money. There is a need for NPs because there are not enough of Family Practice doctors. Its a great field to be a part of.

CARTEL · « **Reply #32 on:** May 15, 2009, 09:27:48 PM »

Quote from: babyjessica on May 15, 2009, 08:58:36 PM

Well I am a nurse practitioner. I have a certification to be a family nurse practitioner. I have been a NP for 7 years now and I love it. I work 3 different jobs. I have always wanted to be a nurse so I went to college and majored in Nursing after high school. Then I decided I wanted to be a NP and finished in 2.5 years. I never thought of becoming a doctor but if I could do it all over again I probably would study to be a doctor when I graduated from high school. Now its too late for me. I would have to start all over again. 4 years of medical school. 1 year of internship, 2 - 3 residency, maybe a fellowship........ I work for one doctor seeing his patients in the nursing home and I have to pay him 15% plus $1625 for supervisory fee from what I make But even so I still make good money. There is a need for NPs because there are not enough of Family Practice doctors. Its a great field to be a part of.

I'm glad you survived that well

BayGBM · « **Reply #33 on:** May 15, 2009, 10:22:19 PM »

Quote from: RPF on May 13, 2009, 04:19:03 PM

Why would anyone become a Nurse Practitioner when they could go just a bit farther and become a Dr. ?

Why become a PA (Physician's Assistant) instead of a Dr.?

benchthis · « **Reply #34 on:** May 15, 2009, 10:32:55 PM »

im a nursing school student going for a BSN bachelors of science of nursing...

planning on applying to medical school after that... if i dont get in I get to still have
a good paying job that will always be in demand and medical school's look at experience equivalent to education ...eventually/hopefully i will get into medical school

btw some NP such as a ICU NP or CRNA's make almost as much as some lower earning MD's minus the large debt they accumulate, the years of school they attend, and the hours they work
if you don't believe me look it up

benchthis · « **Reply #35 on:** May 15, 2009, 10:35:27 PM »

Quote from: benchthis on May 15, 2009, 10:32:55 PM

im a nursing school student going for a BSN bachelors of science of nursing...
planning on applying to medical school after that... if i dont get in I get to still have
a good paying job that will always be in demand and medical school's look at experience equivalent to education ...eventually/hopefully i will get into medical school

btw some NP such as a ICU NP or CRNA's make more than some lower earning MD's minus the large debt they accumulate, the years of school they attend, and the hours they work
if you don't believe me look it up

forgot to mention...
in some states...( i know New Mexico for sure)
you can have your own practice and not have to work under a M.D./D.O.

your basically a less educated DR. working for lower income families minus the tile of DR. lol

benchthis · « **Reply #36 on:** May 15, 2009, 10:38:15 PM »

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Nurse_Anesthetist_(CRNA)/Salary

MuscleMcMannus · « **Reply #37 on:** May 15, 2009, 11:10:10 PM »

haha fuckers......QuakerOats you still haven't answered my question....what do you do for a living tube socks?

And webcke you're a little shit teenager who still lives at home and attends "university" who's yet to get a taste of the real world. Nursing can be a great and rewarding profession for a lot of people including males. There are many many different jobs one can have across the span of healthcare. RN's in CA make straight up bank. In San Fran they can easily make over six figures.

Why did I personally go into nursing? Well I dicked around in college deciding on what I wanted to do that by the time I realized I had to buckle up and pick a major I needed a real job to pay my bills. RN's get out making as much as Engineers and other professionals and it sure as hell beats sitting behind a cubicle all day having a major in "psychology". I can literally go all over the world and find a job as an RN. Even in countries like Egypt, Israel and Italy.

Benchthis I don't know how far along you are in your nursing degree but it's not really recommended to go to school for nursing and try to go to med school. In fact having a nursing degree can hinder your chances of getting in. Medicine is an old boys club and nursing is really starting to piss off the medical community. And you're right most doctor's would tell their sons to go be CRNA's instead of anesthesiologists in they were interested in that area of medicine. No one wants to be a primary MD nowadays. If Obama nationalizes healthcare you're going to see a lot of pissed off doctors and healthcare will change for the worse.

webcake · « **Reply #38 on:** May 15, 2009, 11:25:23 PM »

Quote from: MuscleMcMannus on May 15, 2009, 11:10:10 PM

haha fuckers......QuakerOats you still haven't answered my question....what do you do for a living tube socks?

And webcke you're a little shit teenager who still lives at home and attends "university" who's yet to get a taste of the real world. Nursing can be a great and rewarding profession for a lot of people including males. There are many many different jobs one can have across the span of healthcare. RN's in CA make straight up bank. In San Fran they can easily make over six figures.

Why did I personally go into nursing? Well I dicked around in college deciding on what I wanted to do that by the time I realized I had to buckle up and pick a major I needed a real job to pay my bills. RN's get out making as much as Engineers and other professionals and it sure as hell beats sitting behind a cubicle all day having a major in "psychology". I can literally go all over the world and find a job as an RN. Even in countries like Egypt, Israel and Italy.

Benchthis I don't know how far along you are in your nursing degree but it's not really recommended to go to school for nursing and try to go to med school. In fact having a nursing degree can hinder your chances of getting in. Medicine is an old boys club and nursing is really starting to piss off the medical community. And you're right most doctor's would tell their sons to go be CRNA's instead of anesthesiologists in they were interested in that area of medicine. No one wants to be a primary MD nowadays. If Obama nationalizes healthcare you're going to see a lot of pissed off doctors and healthcare will change for the worse.

Thanks for your life story........very interesting.

benchthis · « **Reply #39 on:** May 15, 2009, 11:28:09 PM »

Quote from: MuscleMcMannus on May 15, 2009, 11:10:10 PM

haha fuckers......QuakerOats you still haven't answered my question....what do you do for a living tube socks?

And webcke you're a little shit teenager who still lives at home and attends "university" who's yet to get a taste of the real world. Nursing can be a great and rewarding profession for a lot of people including males. There are many many different jobs one can have across the span of healthcare. RN's in CA make straight up bank. In San Fran they can easily make over six figures.

Why did I personally go into nursing? Well I dicked around in college deciding on what I wanted to do that by the time I realized I had to buckle up and pick a major I needed a real job to pay my bills. RN's get out making as much as Engineers and other professionals and it sure as hell beats sitting behind a cubicle all day having a major in "psychology". I can literally go all over the world and find a job as an RN. Even in countries like Egypt, Israel and Italy.

Benchthis I don't know how far along you are in your nursing degree but it's not really recommended to go to school for nursing and try to go to med school. In fact having a nursing degree can hinder your chances of getting in. Medicine is an old boys club and nursing is really starting to piss off the medical community. And you're right most doctor's would tell their sons to go be CRNA's instead of anesthesiologists in they were interested in that area of medicine. No one wants to be a primary MD nowadays. If Obama nationalizes healthcare you're going to see a lot of pissed off doctors and healthcare will change for the worse.

two semesters to go.. forgot to mention im also a double major with clinical laboratory science as my other major with a 3.6 GPA and scoring 30/31 in the MCAT (taken practice test twice) and over 1500 hours of volunteer hours ...

and yes your right about some M.D. schools looking down on nursing majors that want to be M.D.'s
but hope to get into a D.O. school where nurses are generally better received..or so i been told by many professionals...
in any case thanks for putting these tools in place in regards to nursing

MuscleMcMannus · « **Reply #40 on:** May 15, 2009, 11:31:29 PM »

Quote from: benchthis on May 15, 2009, 11:28:09 PM

two semesters to go.. forgot to mention im also a double major with clinical laboratory science as my other major with a 3.6 GPA and scoring 30/31 in the MCAT (taken practice test twice) and over 1500 hours of volunteer hours ...

and yes your right about some M.D. schools looking down on nursing majors that want to be M.D.'s
but hope to get into a D.O. school where nurses are generally better received..or so i been told by many professionals...
in any case thanks for putting these tools in place in regards to nursing

That's good! Have you taken a lot of organic chem and other stuff in laboratory science cause I don't see how a nursing major would prepare you for the MCATs. or did you just do a lot of self studying?

benchthis · « **Reply #41 on:** May 15, 2009, 11:36:30 PM »

Quote from: MuscleMcMannus on May 15, 2009, 11:31:29 PM

That's good! Have you taken a lot of organic chem and other stuff in laboratory science cause I don't see how a nursing major would prepare you for the MCATs. or did you just do a lot of self studying?

many of the chemistries are on the laboratory science curriculum
including inorganic, organic, biochem, chem 1 & 2, calculus 1 & 2, most of the biologies and psychology classes were prerequisites for nursing including anatomy 1 & 2, general bio, organismal bio, psychology, abnormal psychology, life cycle development, statistics,
and a bunch of other shit like history, politics, English, and two nutritional classes

benchthis · « **Reply #42 on:** May 15, 2009, 11:40:18 PM »

Quote from: benchthis on May 15, 2009, 11:36:30 PM

many of the chemistries are on the laboratory science curriculum
including inorganic, organic, biochem, chem 1 & 2, calculus 1 & 2, most of the biologies and psychology classes were prerequisites for nursing including anatomy 1 & 2, general bio, organismal bio, psychology, abnormal psychology, life cycle development, statistics,
and a bunch of other shit like history, politics, English.....

nursing schools only chem prerequisite's was a specialty chem thats a mix of chem 1 and high school chem... its chemistry for the medical professions or some shit like that which i had to take for nursing school... it was really baby level chem and it was mostly pharmacology/ drug calculation class which was really bull shit $:-\$

Brutal_1 · « **Reply #43 on:** May 16, 2009, 03:42:41 PM »

Quote from: benchthis on May 15, 2009, 11:28:09 PM

two semesters to go.. forgot to mention im also a double major with clinical laboratory science as my other major with a 3.6 GPA and scoring 30/31 in the MCAT (taken practice test twice) and over 1500 hours of volunteer hours ...

and yes your right about some M.D. schools looking down on nursing majors that want to be M.D.'s
but hope to get into a D.O. school where nurses are generally better received..or so i been told by many professionals...
in any case thanks for putting these tools in place in regards to nursing

Bench, my "gayer than" brotha....with those stats, you'll have NO PROBLEM getting into an allopathic program!

Good luck!

England_1 · « **Reply #44 on:** May 16, 2009, 04:06:07 PM »

overall GPA is irrelevant concerning admission to medical school. BCPM (biology, chemistry, physics, math) GPA is what is looked at. So calculate that and see what you come out with. It it's less than 3.5 you will have a hell of a time getting in. Most every school uses a formula including the MCAT score and BCPM GPA. They use this to eliminate applicants who don't meet their criteria. They also have correction factors for different universities regarding GPA. Best advice I can give is to apply to as many schools as possible; the average is about 11 schools applied to per applicant. Although I've seen one person apply to 51 schools (shit you not). It's very costly though, when you take into account flights, hotels, professional attire, etc.

RadOncDoc · « **Reply #45 on:** May 16, 2009, 05:27:37 PM »

Quote from: England_1 on May 16, 2009, 04:06:07 PM

overall GPA is irrelevant concerning admission to medical school. BCPM (biology, chemistry, physics, math) GPA is what is looked at. So calculate that and see what you come out with. It it's less than 3.5 you will have a hell of a time getting in. Most every school uses a formula including the MCAT score and BCPM GPA. They use this to eliminate applicants who don't meet their criteria. They also have correction factors for different universities regarding GPA. Best advice I can give is to apply to as many schools as possible; the average is about 11 schools applied to per applicant. Although I've seen one person apply to 51 schools (shit you not). It's very costly though, when you take into account flights, hotels, professional attire, etc.

To the guy who is applying to med school...With a 3.6 gpa and assuming you score 30 to 31 on your MCAT, you will need to apply to a lot of schools. 11 is not enough. The MCAT score is okay and will pass cutoffs at lower tier schools, but the gpa is low and might hurt you. Apply very broadly and understand that you are not going to be competitive at any top tier school. You shouldn't have to go DO (and I would highly, highly advise against going that route...unless you are okay with ending up in primary care), but you need to apply to A LOT of schools. By the way, this advice applies to non-underrepresented minority students. If you are black or hispanic, then throw these recs out the window, and apply anywhere you want to go. As a URM, you can get into top tier schools with those stats.

New Hank Wood · « **Reply #46 on:** May 16, 2009, 05:31:50 PM »

A nurse is a glorified janitor.

A nurse cleans up faeces, vomit and changes soiled linen.

In summary, if you don't mind wiping asses, sponge-bathing retards and scraping-dick-sores then you should become a nurse!

timfogarty · « **Reply #47 on:** May 16, 2009, 05:34:33 PM »

Hank degrading a whole class of people. No surprise there.

body88 · « **Reply #48 on:** May 16, 2009, 05:39:19 PM »

Lots of world class hospitals here in Boston, and the nurses at those hopitals make a lot of money. I believe senior NP's at Brigham and Womens cancer center make 75-90 an hour.

timfogarty · « **Reply #49 on:** May 16, 2009, 05:50:01 PM »

Someone from my gym is a neonatal ICU nurse. been doing it for 20 some years. he's an expert at threading tiny little needles into tiny little veins. what ever he makes, its not enough.

Author Topic: Nurse Practitioner / Doctor (Read 9099 times)

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