Need help..don't know if i should continue nursing

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I am doing my pre-reqs for nursing in a ASN program at a county college. I have done research on rn, pa, and cls. I am in school full time with a 4.0 gpa and I work as a certified clinical medical assistant. Therefore, i don't have the time to volunteer and shadow any RNs or PAs. I know first hand how drs can treat their help and how some patients are nasty but i never worked in the hospital before. I love science and medicine but i find myself having a low tolerance for dealing with ******** at work. Whether its from the drs or patients. I like to help others but i tend to be brutally honest and take no bs. I believe everyone has a job to do and should work together for the best interest of the patient. I believe in doing my job and i take it very seriously. However, I am not an emotional person and very introverted when it comes to small talk. I don't know if i should continue with becoming an rn or change into becoming a PA or clinical lab. scientist. I do not like stress (from dealing with bs) and want to come home from work in peace. I want to make good money doing what i love in medicine. I just need to know what it is truly like to be a rn. beyond the so-called explanation of it being a calling or helping people. what is the real deal? is it a fight to keep your licensure everyday? is it alot of bs? I just don't know what career path to take. I am 27 years old with no children and know i am starting a career late so my dream of becoming a doctor & going to medical school would be out for me. So RN, PA or CLS (i really don't like their low pay though). any advice would be greatly appreciated b/c i am honestly stuck:confused::crying2:

I am doing my pre-reqs for nursing in a ASN program at a county college. I have done research on rn, pa, and cls. I am in school full time with a 4.0 gpa and I work as a certified clinical medical assistant. Therefore, i don't have the time to volunteer and shadow any RNs or PAs. I know first hand how drs can treat their help and how some patients are nasty but i never worked in the hospital before. I love science and medicine but i find myself having a low tolerance for dealing with a**holes at work. Whether its from the drs or patients. I like to help others but i tend to be brutally honest and take no bs. I believe everyone has a job to do and should work together for the best interest of the patient. I believe in doing my job and i take it very seriously. However, I am not an emotinal person and very introverted when it comes to small talk. I don't know if i should continue with becoming an rn or change into becoming a PA or clinical lab. scienctist. I do not like stress (from dealing with bs) and want to come home from work in peace. I want to make good money doing what i love in medicine. I just need to know what it is truly like to be a rn. beyond the so-called explanation of it being a calling or helping people. what is the real deal? is it a fight to keep your lincensure everyday? is it alot of bs? I just don't know what career path to take. I am 27 years old with no children and know i am starting a career late so my dream of becoming a doctor & going to medical school would be out for me. So RN, PA or CLS (i really don't like their low pay though). any advice would be greatly appreciated b/c i am honestly stuck:confused::crying2:

If your career is your passion, then everything else is background noise. You can learn how to tune it out and focus on what matters to you most. This is some advice that applies to anything. You really need to figure out what type of job will best fit your desires. I come from the corporate business world, and its the reason why I have switched to nursing. I always wanted to be a nurse as a child, but when I saw the amount of money in business, I switched, I got a BBA

and landed a great job with a major airline. I hated everyday of that job! Every single day. All of the office politics, jerks, and gossip were there too. But If I am going to deal with that everyday, then I need to be doing something I love so that I can tune out all of the BS and focus on what matters to me. And, that is becoming a mother/baby RN. I can talk about, help mothers/families, read and research about perinatal care all day long, non-stop. It's my passion. I will never forget the way my team of nurses helped me bond with my newborn, and that is something I want to help new mothers with. That being said. I am 27, married, mother of a toddler and infant, full-time student with a 4.0 math/science GPA. I have a full plate, and if I had to make a decision like you, I WOULD make time to job shadow/volunteer to discover where I wanted to take my career path. Trust me, you have the time to figure it out. So, just do it!

I feel like a 27 year old should be a little more mature and realistic. You want to work in healthcare, but claim you're introverted and not a people person? You just want to have a "stress-free" job and make lots of money--yeah, DON'T WE ALL?! If these are the things you're looking for, a career in healthcare is not for you.

Also, yammering on about how you don't like BS and how you don't take BS from others sounds very defensive, unprofessional, and probably won't win you any good jobs. If you can't hold it together long enough to make it through a day at work without having this attitude, you won't make it in healthcare.

I do work in healthcare already. if you properly read my message you would have seen that. I am very professional and get offers of employment other places. The BS i was speaking of was dealing with rude, unprofessional people. I believe that everyone needs to buckle down, do their jobs and work as a team to help the patient. Being an introvert doesn't mean that you can't communicate effectively with others. Plus, there is nothing wrong with wanting a low stress job and there are many different types of stress. There is a difference btw stress from having alot of tasks to complete and stress from negative people/working enviroment. From your rude and hasty remark, one can assume that you may be one of those people. Just b/c you may not aim for ideal and i do.. doesn't make me unrealistic. I just have higher standards for myself. Alot of the great scienctist of our time was mocked and considered unrealistist but i bet alot of what you studied in school was from them. Look in the mirror before you try to call someone else immature.

I will find a way to make time and shadow a nurse. But i will make time to figure out what i truly love and do that. thank you and kudos to you for maintaining a 4.0 and having a family!

I just wanted to thank everyone for their feedback. I will figure out what I love and decide which job can get me there. As far as nursing, I really don't think my personality will fit. Just like my boyfriend told me, i am way too outspoken and not emotionally center for nursing and maybe even patient care all together. I do like to help people but i may not be able to tolerate certain interactions with people. As a CCMA I do know that you have those pts that make it seem all worthwhile but I do not think it overcomes all other stuff. Just wish that people were different. I can't change people but i can change what i do for a living. I am schedule to start nursing classes next semester but i will think long and hard about that and look into my other options. again thanks for the advice.:hug:

Welcome to the lab. :)

Get out of nursing while you can. go to med school outside of America if you can't get into a US school. you are still fairly young and are not tied down. Get movin', Girl!

I am 55 and will start nursing school in January. My sister who had a B.A. in music graduated medical school at the age of 56. She's ten years older than I am. She is doing well at a VA hospital. I am heartened to hear of other non-traditional students!

Specializes in Med Surg.

No job is immune from BS and no one ever thinks they're paid enough. It's a matter of deciding what type of BS and how much pay you'll take. Good luck on your decision making.

See, they are everywhere. A good example is kool-aide above. I worked in print shops for a while after getting my BA then went back to school for a BS and worked as a cytotechnologist for 13 years. It was such a stressful job and the girls I worked with were not very nice. They operated in clicks much like highschool. Wouldn't it be great if everyone would be nice and just treat and talk to others like they would like to be treated? I'm sorry that you've already gotten to the point where you can't take anyone's BS anymore. It took many years of abuse to get me there. I recommend you stay out of the lab. Computers are taking over, jobs are scarce, the pay is getting lower, and unfortunately, the people aren't any nicer. I'm going back to school yet again at the age of 44. It seems like you can hardly go wrong with Nursing. Jobs are everywhere and pay is good. The toughest part of your life will be learning to deal with the jerks of the world, no matter what profession you are in. Concentrate on learning how to do it and do it well and you will go far. Good luck......

Thanks for all your hopeful posts. I don't say that sarcastically. We'll see what happens.

I am doing my pre-reqs for nursing in a ASN program at a county college. I have done research on rn, pa, and cls. I am in school full time with a 4.0 gpa and I work as a certified clinical medical assistant. Therefore, i don't have the time to volunteer and shadow any RNs or PAs. I know first hand how drs can treat their help and how some patients are nasty but i never worked in the hospital before. I love science and medicine but i find myself having a low tolerance for dealing with a**holes at work. Whether its from the drs or patients. I like to help others but i tend to be brutally honest and take no bs. I believe everyone has a job to do and should work together for the best interest of the patient. I believe in doing my job and i take it very seriously. However, I am not an emotinal person and very introverted when it comes to small talk. I don't know if i should continue with becoming an rn or change into becoming a PA or clinical lab. scienctist. I do not like stress (from dealing with bs) and want to come home from work in peace. I want to make good money doing what i love in medicine. I just need to know what it is truly like to be a rn. beyond the so-called explanation of it being a calling or helping people. what is the real deal? is it a fight to keep your lincensure everyday? is it alot of bs? I just don't know what career path to take. I am 27 years old with no children and know i am starting a career late so my dream of becoming a doctor & going to medical school would be out for me. So RN, PA or CLS (i really don't like their low pay though). any advice would be greatly appreciated b/c i am honestly stuck:confused::crying2:

There are really lousy people in every profession- whether it be merely irritating, or just plain stupid.

Not liking stress is a problem. Nursing is a boatload of stress.

You don't just lose your license- it takes some work......this isn't directed at you, but I get so SICK of hearing about the license fairies that lurk over nurses to yank their licenses if they fart wrong. You have to do something REALLY bad (drug diversion- and fail the board's programs to help a person KEEP their license, kill someone on purpose (Andrea Yates- who drowned her 5 kids- it took about a year before someone pulled her license:uhoh3:- came out in the BON newsletter).

Med school is its own pile of horse apples. Is there a career counselor at your school? They have compatibility questionnaires/tests to help find jobs that are suited to people's personalities and interests.... don't rely on a bunch of strangers :) Good luck :up:

Specializes in pcu/stepdown/telemetry.

It always aggravates me when nurses say "It's my license, I have to do this" meanwhile it's not that they are stealing narcs, but they didn't put the balmex on the pt behind. Nurses have a lot of pressure. On a daily basis you don't fear for license revocation as long as you are not doing illegal things at work or abusing your patients. Maybe if you like science and can't see the long years in med school + residency you could do Forensic Science instead, bachelor's degree. You would spend either time in labs,crime scenes, you would not have patients/ families to deal with the way that RN have. Either way in any job there is stress. The secretary at my job thinks her job is the most stressful on the planet. Its all perception and very subjective

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