and “an online message board”, cool source! Should I dig up some message board comments from nurses about getting reamed out from asshole physicians or would that hurt your feelies?

I’m glad you took this opportunity to make it about YOURSELF. You don’t even work in a hospital, which makes you well poised to answer the question of what it’s like to be a nurse.

You sure about that? I have seen some nurses rip residents a new one.

It’s usually coming out of a colostomy. Google that for funnies.

Yeah, the pace of the work and the sheer physicality of it can be prohibitive after a certain age, mostly because of short staffing and because of the nature of nursing - and it sucks we lose those who can teach future nurses, I’m constantly in awe of the nurses who have been doing this longer than I’ve been alive -…

Wait, you’re out of the game? AW MAN, I loved all your nursing stories. I get it, this shit is HARD and breaks your god damn body but I love you ladies who have been doing this and know everything and teach young guns like me whose butt clenches a little when that heart rate dips to thirty and you’re running for the…

Oh definitely. I was briefly at a surgical practice that was run by MAs giving injections, doing peels at assisting in surgery and none of them knew even basic anatomy or side effects of the drugs they were giving. But they did call themselves nurses...hope that works out for doc when a lawsuit drops.

haha, YES! A homeless man with terrible leg ulcers AND c diff came in today and everyone in the ED was gagging and I was like, “What’s wrong? Smell what now?”

This whole “nurses are mean to female physicians” shit is stupid. Nurses are mean to male residents, sometimes they are mean to patients and sometimes they’re mean to each other. Nurses can just be mean, period, because their human beings and some human beings are jerks. I’ve never seen this and there’s no evidence to…

That’s what they think...

I’m an emergency room nurse in NYC. It’s a job that is beyond difficult, and I’m constantly working short staffed with not nearly enough supplies and no where near enough time to give people the care they need.

seriously! I can't wear hot pink or weird goth purple to work. I'm not sure how they thought this would look good on a pale blond person.

How do you use it - just a swipe and blend? It's really intimidating to me!

I cancelled my ipsy this month after yet another Barbie pink lipstick - each one is brighter and more unflattering than the next. Glossy box, here I come.

You are grossly overstating the advantages of a BSN - they are common. It's not some sort of special key card to the good life and "making it". It's pretty much the lowest level for entry into nursing at this point in most places in the country that aren't rural, ADN hospital nurses are becoming the exception. Yes,…

On a lark I just looked at my paycheck for my BSN differential (this is the same for everyone with a BSN - it's exclusive of shift, experience, etc - those all get a separate differential added on) and....drumroll...it's 60 cents an hour over someone with an ADN. I asked a few other BSN nurses and Presbyterian and NYU…

In the hospitals I have worked, the vast majority were forced to go back to school - there's a lot of online BSN programs and employers pay for it so it's honestly not that big of a deal to complete it.

How do you use this product? I just got it and I'm confused - it makes me think of Bianca Del Rio from Drag Race.

Eh...MOST nurses in metropolitan areas have BSNs now since hospitals want the coveted magnet status. So if your hospital is 90% women, I'd wager 85% are BSN and a couple were grandfathered in. I work in NY and almost no hospitals hire people without at least a BSN.

(I'm super late replying because NIGHT SHIFT UGH!)