NP Salaries Realistically and grades!

Thats what my friends mom does as a registered nurse who makes $35 an hour

Well I am in nursing school now, should graduate in may. I can't speak as a NP or a PA but I think I decided the right thing. It will take a little longer, but I would expect a NP to be a lot more skilled than a PA. Since I am a student nurse I am partial but it seems like nurses should have more than 2 years training. Nursing school is pretty intense, harder than any other schooling I have had. You start being in a medical setting from day 1 so you have a lot of experience in a hospital. You can get your bachelors in nursing online at a lot of places. The graduate programs you can even do online, or do part time. You can't make that decision what you want to do without the experience. If you know you like the medical field I think entering nursing was a good way to go. You build connections. By the time you hit gradschool you have a ton more experience than like a biology degree. Nursing school your going to probably have to spend minimum of twice as much time on the associates degree, but then you can work and make a decent wage in 2 years. I think I made the right decision. It took me about a year to feel confident with being in a hospital and dealing with patients. I just applied for an aid position to get some more experience.

I didn't know anything about nursing or really the medical field going in. I will tell you after my first day of clinical in the nursing home I was ready to quit. Just in nursing you can basically do anything but be a doctor. You can get a masters in anesthesia and make 200k a year. Work in an operating room, ER, doctors office, oncology, anything medical, pediatrics. I have gone through so many things I wouldn't have been able to get myself to do on my own if I didn't need to finish school. I would have quit on myself so many times if I didn't need to do it for school. So many unique experiences I couldn't have gotten any other way. Nursing isn't for everyone, I hate the school I am in. Despite that though I would highly reccomend nursing. Im in a night nursing program and it includes the summer so it only takes 1 1/2 years. Nurses get to do a lot of stuff, yeah some of its gross but I at least got over that pretty quick. Their assessment skills are probably better than most doctors. I was told to try and find a teaching hospital so the residents will teach the nurses the disease process and some of the medical management while the nurses teach them the assessment skills. A nice symbiotic relationship.