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Nursing - MERGED

This is sort of an odd question, but I don't know who else to ask....

So I just earned a shit bachelor's degree and no jobs are to be found, so I decided to head back to school this coming Fall and become a registered RN.

If personal circumstances allow it, would it be realistic to move around the country....like work at a hospital for one year, than relocate; repeat. What are some potential obstacles?

I really don't know much at all about the moving process, have lived in the same house my whole life...

I just think it would be cool to move around the country and see new places until I find somewhere I would like to stay.

Correct me if I am wrong....but I don't think I should have any problem finding work being a male nurse....
 
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"Travel nursing" is one of the few areas right now in desperate need of people, and therefore willing pay you well (good salary, plus often paying for your temporary housing, car, etc.). You can do it either domestically or internationally. In fact, you'll earn more as a travel nurse than a nurse in one location.

Here's basically how it works. You will get a job with a travel nurse agency, and though this agency, you'd be assigned positions around the country/world. That agency takes care of your benefits, so therefore you look BETTER to hospitals (as compared to permanent hires) because the hospital won't have to deal with giving you benefits (even if this is slightly offset by them having to pay you a bit more flat-out). Check out this as a starting point.

My mother is a registered RN and she's often flirted with the idea of going overseas and doing this type of thing. Once my sister gets older, she probably will. In fact, she cannot wait.

There's only one potential obsticle that I wouldn't call "common sense" (such as don't have a felony, don't get homesick, etc.) It will be more difficult to be a travel nurse as a start-up nurse, than as an experienced nurse. Reason being, you haven't adapated yet to the inner workings of a hospital, so you wouldn't yet have a basis from which you could then recgonize and adapt to the differences of a new hospital. From the viewpoint of the travel nurse agency, you're weaker than an experienced RN wanting to make the transition. Still though, with the shortage of nurses, this is probably not much of an issue.

If you have any more specific questions, you can ask them, and I'll ask my mother for her assistence. Hope this helps.

No, you'll definately not be discriminated against as a male nurse. In fact, it would probably work out quite well ;)
 
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I want to engineer psychiatric medicines. No, I don't want to create LSD in a basement or synthesize meth. I'm talking strictly legit drug-making.

What do I need to study? I'm doing a B.Sc in Biology, but from then on I'm not so sure what to continue into (what to do my graduate studies in.) Biochemistry? Neurosciences? Neurobiochemistry?
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That is EXACTLY what I wanted to do as a career before I went to Uni and found out about the course pharmacology and assumed that it was designed to teach you about how drugs worked and how to make them...

However, I was wrong... Pharmacology is about the biology of drugs, how they produce the effects in the body etc... If you are interested in actually synthesising drugs then you need a degree in organic chemistry as previously stated...

I however lucked out tremendously as I found out I loved learning how drugs act in a biological sense and am currently halfway through a PhD in psychopharmacology. You learn diddle shit about how to make drugs but I find it fasinating how drugs effect the brain in a biological sense...

Pharmacology = biology
Drug synthesis = chemistry

Goodluck, its a tricky area to study but bloody interesting...
 
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Hey Redleader thanks a shit load for that bit of information....I had no idea such thing existed! But yeah I know being male will help my cause, if I can pull through school I can never see my self unemployed....ever.

hoopyfrood said:
Might suck if you fall in love with someone. :)
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Hopefully to a sexy female doctor=D
 
Neuroscience or Pharmacy

I'll probably be accepted to both of them and have very hard time deciding which one I should pick. My ideal course would be Pharmacology, but it's not available in Poland. My aim is to be accepted for PhD in neuropharmacology, probably somewhere abroad. Some of you work in academia, so if you were in position to choose a student for neuropharmacology PhD course, would you rather pick the one with Pharmacy or Neuroscience background?
 
Neuroscience definitely. Pharmacy, at least to me, is a joke of the training they give you. Lots of school for eventually doing a 9-5 job that 99% of the time uses about .5% of your training.

Plus neuroscience will teach you all about the neurons, receptors, neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, etc that will be vital to learning about Neuropharmacology.
 
I second neuroscience. If you are aiming for a PhD, it would make more sense, as pharmacy would generally track you for a specific career as a pharmacist/PharmD degree.
 
First I'd say your awesome for being interested in Pharmacology, it's the field I eventually want to pursue (well that or maybe accounting) and it's a shame they don't have it there.

Neuroscience is a more scientific oriented and a generally broader field, pharmacy is way more specific and appears more like a trade.
 
^It's a very open-ended field.

Basically one can either go on to do graduate work or get a job straight-up. If you do the grad route, you'll probably do it either to become a professional researcher (a "scientist"!) on neurological topics or to take the M.D. route and become a doctor who specialises in diagnosing and treating neurological diseases and disorders.

As for jobs for someone with a neuroscience undergrad degree only, one could be a "professional research assistant" for those from the above group, work with doctors in using medical imaging techniques (x-ray, MRI, etc.) to diagnose diseases, work as a nurse for patients with neurological disorders, work for research groups which conduct cognative/perceptual studies on people, etc. Biomedical, Pharmeceutical and Public Health research organizations do hire neuroscience undergrads (though obviously they're doing more assisting than calling the shots).
 
Pharmacology??

I need help on what I want to go into, I believe It's pharmacology.
I want to study chemical's positive effects on the body.
Please help me with what this would be, and what kind of classes I'd have to go to.
 
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Nursing... a respectable career choice

Hi every body
Nursing is a respectable profession. For ailing and suffered people
a nurse in white dress is like an angel. She console the patient with her soft chatting, smiles of lips, healing hands, and affectionate of eyes. She/he builds courage in him against the disease and liven confidence and faith. How dangerous a disease is, she or he will, on the road to recovery, return home. Life will again become a kind, interesting and beautiful thing from him. Especially women have bright opportunities of career comparing other professions. Nursing profession provides great job opportunities abroad. Middle East countries offer tremendous job opening for women. Women can help their family to fulfil their financial needs by adopting this profession.

Nature of work
Nurses normally have to work in hospitals. The prime responsibility of a nurse is to look after the physical and mental health of her patient. E.R, Wards, I.C.U, C.C.U, N.I.C.U are work places for nurses.
for more....
career-in-nursing
 
jobs dealing with drugs?

so i've gotten extremely interested in how drugs, both recreational and pharmaceutical, work on the body both physically and mentally and was wondering if there were any types of jobs that dealt with stuff like this. especially in the psychology field ;)

though i'm not too good with chemistry /:
 
well i took all the chem courses my high school offered me and i got A's and B's in them but i still struggled just a little bit....grasped the idea just enough but not all the way....but i could probably work through it a bit.

i did some research and found psychopharmacology. anyone got any info on that?
 
rollin_stoned said:
well i took all the chem courses my high school offered me and i got A's and B's in them but i still struggled just a little bit....grasped the idea just enough but not all the way....but i could probably work through it a bit.

i did some research and found psychopharmacology. anyone got any info on that?
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there are quite a few threads in here and in the archive which discuss pharmacology. i suggest checking those out.

high school chemistry is not university chemistry, fwiw.
 
Being a psychologist/therapist for people with drug problems is an option if you can't or don't want to master the chemistry. IMO, the world is never short of such people who actually believe in HR and have personal experience and empathy derived from such. And from my experience, there are a lot of BLers who know way more about drugs and drug use than many therapists.
 
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